Tag: documentary
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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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Fools & Dreamers – Hugh Wilson & The Hinewai Reserve
I stumbled by accident on this documentary about Hugh Wilson and the Hinewai reserve rewilding a desolate part of New Zealand for the last 30 years. It’s an amazing story, and also some wonderful nature porn for New Zealand. Calming and inspirational and shows that when people call you (or indeed Hugh Wilson) a ‘fool…
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…