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S2 E24

Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles

Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. Then, a mathematician challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.

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Episode 1: Learning from Machines

Episode 2: The Technique of Change

Episode 3: Star Gazers

Episode 4: Science and Art

Episode 5: The Great Computer Scandal / H-Bomb Detectors

Episode 6: Forbidden Events / I am a Madman

Episode 7: Restless Genius / Faster, Farther, Higher

Episode 8: The Other Side of the Pill

Episode 9: The Big Smoke / The Model Makers