The article "Why Your Brain Avoids Exercise!" from BBC's Science Focus explores the reasons why humans often avoid physical activity despite its benefits. It discusses the brain's sensitivity to effort, the tendency to avoid discomfort, and how motivation and willpower can help overcome these challenges.
In The Rosa Parks Effect, Rosa Parks’s arrest motivates Martin Luther King Jr. to advance non-violent protests on a larger scale, making him a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Infamous Assassinations, a documentary series about high-profile murders and attempted murders of public figures, narrated by actor Robert Powell.
The article ""Oppenheimer: The Mind Behind the Atomic Bomb and the Moral Fallout That Followed" from BBC's HistoryExtrafollows J. Robert Oppenheimer's pivotal role in developing the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project, his motivations, political associations, and the psychological toll of unleashing such a destructive force.
The article "Why Your Brain Avoids Exercise!" from BBC's Science Focus explores the reasons why humans often avoid physical activity despite its benefits. It discusses the brain's sensitivity to effort, the tendency to avoid discomfort, and how motivation and willpower can help overcome these challenges.
In The Rosa Parks Effect, Rosa Parks’s arrest motivates Martin Luther King Jr. to advance non-violent protests on a larger scale, making him a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Infamous Assassinations, a documentary series about high-profile murders and attempted murders of public figures, narrated by actor Robert Powell.
The article ""Oppenheimer: The Mind Behind the Atomic Bomb and the Moral Fallout That Followed" from BBC's HistoryExtrafollows J. Robert Oppenheimer's pivotal role in developing the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project, his motivations, political associations, and the psychological toll of unleashing such a destructive force.