Tag: documentaries
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The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schön
I rarely ever watch documentaries on YouTube. Even rarely a science documentary. Never a documentary about…falsifying data and research?! Sounds boring right? Wrong. I just spent nearly two hours watching these. This is the story of how Jan Hendrik Schön became a Physics superstar, on the way maybe to a Nobel prize…until it all came…
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Hal Lasko, Pixel painter
THIS is what the internet, and the shorter documentaries are for, a window into somebody else’s world. And Hal Lasko‘s world at 98 in the shape of his art is magical. I was sceptical when I clicked because sometimes people are kind but a little condescending (OMG look at this old person doing something technical…
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Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague
In the Oscars there’s a interesting nomination hidden away – the AIDS documentary ‘How to Survive A Plague’ by David France. Covering the period where governments worldwide were dismissing it as a ‘gay’ problem and not really bothered about what happens to them (very wrong on both counts; like other epidemics these things don’t self…