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Dustin Hoffman on TOOTSIE and his character Dorothy Michaels

12 November, 2016 at 10:20 pm Leave a comment

TED – You have no idea where camels really come from (Latif Nasser)

28 May, 2016 at 4:02 pm Leave a comment

[BBC] Wonders Of The Universe (Brian Cox)

1. Destiny: time
2. Stardust: 92 elements, stardust
3. Falling: gravity
4. Messengers: light

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1 December, 2015 at 2:04 pm Leave a comment

[BBC] The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis)

1. Happiness Machines: Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis, unconscious irrational forces, Edward Bernays, propaganda, Public Relations, women smoking, emotionally engaging, need culture to desire culture, consumerism, President Hoover, stock market crash, Adolf
   Hitler, the National Socialists, Joseph Goebbels, President Roosevelt, The New Deal, World’s Fair, second world war

1. The Engineering of Consent: World War II soldier, irrational forces, Freud’s daughter Anna, Ernest

1. Policeman Inside All Our Heads
2. Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

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1 December, 2015 at 12:34 pm Leave a comment

[BBC] Dangerous Knowledge

• Georg Cantor: God, Infinity, Set Theory
• Ludwig Boltzmann: Atom, Probability, Thermodynamics, Entropy
• Kurt Gödel: Incompleteness Theorem, Continuum Hypothesis
• Alan Turing: Enigma, Computer, Incompleteness Theorem, Continuum Hypothesis

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25 November, 2015 at 1:37 am Leave a comment

Srinivasa Ramanujan

I get to read about Srinivasa Ramanujan last night. Understand completely nothing of his work. However the feeling of ‘awe’ will stay. Aww!

6 October, 2015 at 4:30 pm Leave a comment

The Mechanical Universe … and Beyond

• Summary of 52 episodes
• English subtitles (to be added)

5 October, 2015 at 12:58 pm Leave a comment