
Science and Wonder: Times Square Time Machine
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Short films by award-winning filmmakers, as part of TED Talks: Science and Wonder.
So you’re sitting just off of Times Square in midtown Manhattan in 2015 – but what are you sitting on top of? Zooming back a million years to look at the evolution of this little patch of land, this film offers an awe-inspiring view of the speed and ferocity with which humans have utterly transformed the globe.
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TED Talks: Science and Wonder is a co-production of TED and ITVS in partnership with PBS, and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Science and Wonder: Times Square Time Machine
Clip: Episode 1 | 3m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
So you’re sitting just off of Times Square in midtown Manhattan in 2015 – but what are you sitting on top of? Zooming back a million years to look at the evolution of this little patch of land, this film offers an awe-inspiring view of the speed and ferocity with which humans have utterly transformed the globe.
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TED Talks: Science and Wonder is a co-production of TED and ITVS in partnership with PBS, and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.