MindQuest – 1996
These videos, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
The Art of Critical Thinking
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
Living Longer: Facts, Fads, and Fallacies
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
Diet and Disease: Health Care or Health Scare?
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
Alternative Medicine: Horizons of Healing or Approval of Quackery?
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
The Light at the Moment of Death: Heavenly Vision or Electrical Brainstorms?
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
ESP and Psychic Experiences: New Science or Old Fraud?
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
The Brain-Mind Connection: Consciousness and the Nonphysical
This video, produced in 1996, predated Closer To Truth. The series’ original name was “MindQuest: Challenging Current Belief”. It was never broadcast.
What’s Creativity and Who’s Creative?
Creativity is exciting, but also demanding, consuming, frustrating, and addicting. It’s inspiring, but also fickle, erratic, tricky, and risky. Experts gather to discuss this remarkable thing called creativity in a lively discussion that combines sweeping theories, fascinating stories, clever experiments and personal confessions. Find out where creativity comes from, how it’s applied, and why it…
Testing New Drugs: Are People Guinea Pigs?
Experts wrestle with the ethics of clinical trials. A doctor specializing in HIV medicine, a bioethics lawyer, and a top FDA official outline the complex issues surrounding the development and testing of new drugs. They explain the standards now in place for conducting clinical trials and the exceptionally difficult task of conducting placebo control trials…
Can Religion Withstand Technology?
A social scientist, an expert on science and Islam, and a card-carrying skeptic discuss how the clash between technology and religion reshapes our search for meaning. A skeptic, a devout Muslim scientist, and a professor of religion examine an intriguing paradox: in an age of ever-increasing scientific knowledge more people than ever before are devout,…
Is the Universe Full of Life?
Two planetary scientists and an astrophysicist make the case that the search for life in other parts of our universe has been made all the more valid by two recent discoveries, one taking place at the bottom of our oceans and the other around stars in our galaxy. As it turns out, life thrives without…