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^ Isn't psilocybin illegal in UK? How does he/she document a crime and broadcast it? I can't watch it yet 'cause bandwidth.
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It's all part of medical research anyway, so it will be licenced. The research is being carried out by none other than good old Professor David Nutt. New investigations are being opened up into the potential benefits of psychedelics again, especially in the USA. In this case I think the startling results showed not an increase in brain activity in the area expected, but a reduction of both activity and blood flow. These were in areas involved in perception, who we are and where we are etc. The thinking is that once these areas are switched off, the mind kind of wanders a little bit....no shit =D But the medical implications are that for people with OCD's and depression, if these areas can be slowed down a little, it could help them. Makes sense to me.
 
Yeah thanks for the tip I watched the Whites family one, it was pretty nuts, got the other downloaded and probably gonna watch it soon :)
 
Haha, thats unreal - they go to the pharmacy, get shit loads of xanax, get smashed on said xanax, and then they get married. At the pharmacy?!?
 
Another offering from the hit and miss Horizon series sounds very interesting tonight @ 9pm BBC2. Me thinks a few spliffs will be a necessary requirement.


There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.

Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos. It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again.
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Gonna watch that horizon, in the meantime;

Documentary about the most powerful drug baron to have lived (with the exception of companies like smirnoff and british tobacco), Pablo Escobar.
Really good from the BBC, even pointing out that his murder was futile, as the vacuum will only be refilled. Amazing what they can say on BBC4 compared to BBC3!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xk7x1/Storyville_20102011_Pablos_Hippos/
 
^^thanks for that. Yeah, there really is a massive difference in 3 and 4 isn't there?

Enjoy the Horizon program, but like they say, don't ever expect to understand. Nobody does!

I still think we exist inside a black hole. The exploding supernova of it's birth being the big bang of course. Fuck knows, but that's the kind of thing it gets you thinking of....check out the hologram theory :)
 
Just watched Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson. As title suggests, tis a collection of interviews with the late, great man himself that covers all the usual RAW topics (philosophy, religion, science, spirituality, mysticism, politics, drugs, magick, metaphysics, conspiracy theories/conspiracy theorists and other tings of interest). It's mainly more recent interviews when he's maybe not on top form (and permastoned on his medical marijuana script :D) but still enjoyed it. If you don't know who RAW is then it's not a bad introduction but is short so doesn't cover anything in any depth. The audio interview collection RAW Explains it All would be a better intro but this would be better than no intro cos he's a legend. And funny as fuck. Bonus :)

Also, I'd highly recommend the site that doc was taken from. Has a massive selection, loads I've not seen on other sites and, best of all, whole series of documentaries all grouped together instead of just the odd episode here and there and no linkies to the others. Top site :)
 
Good taste, Shambles. RAW was a genius. Should've known a man of your calibre would be a fan.

Seriously, anybody who wants their eyes to be opened a little bit more could do far worse than check out some of the works of Mr. Wilson.





Fnord.
 
Rivers & Tides - excellent doc following Andy Goldsworthy (one of my favourite artists) as he produces a number of works and discusses his ideas, influences, methods and so on. Those folks who think modern art is easy and produced by talentless wannabee celebrities need to watch and eat their thoughts. The amount of painstaking and highly skilled work involved in producing such ephemeral pieces is unbelievable. Some of his smaller works take hour upon hour of ridiculously difficult effort to produce and are frequently blown away by a strong gust of wind or a wave before he can finish. So he starts again. Man's a genius and he does stuff like this:

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For the more sciencey-types, I also enjoyed Evolve a lot more than I expected. Nice to see how ideas and knowledge about various evolutionary puzzles has moved on and been updated in recent years. Very entertaining and pretty in-depth - especially for a mainstream US series. They're all available in full on PooToob too :)
 
Futebol

One of the best documenteries i have ever seen .......


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Futebol is a riveting series of three 80 minute documentaries produced by award winning documentary maker Joao Moreira Salles of Videofilmes, the production company he started with his brother Walter Salles in 1987.

By turns fascinating, enthralling and in parts profoundly moving, Futebol is a social commentary on Brazil and the national obsession with the beautiful game and its stars.

Episode 1: For thousands of boys all over Brazil, football is their dream. Often this is not just a personal ambition to become a top player, but also their only chance to drag their family out of poverty. Only a fraction will succeed. One thousand five hundred boys turn up for the tryout for Flamengo, Rio's home team and the biggest in Brazil. Among them are boys like Fabrício, Jeosmar and Edmilson who we follow for two and a half years through early hopes, successes and bitter disappointments. .Legendary players like Pelé and Zico also reminisce on getting their own break as boys playing football in the streets.

Episode 2: Who could ever be ready to go from earning $100 per month to $10,000 in a few short months? Iranildo and Lúcio both play for Flamengo. One is a child of the Rio slums, suffering from malnutrition when he was talent-spotted, the other was born in Tocantins, an extremely rural village on the edge of the Amazonian rainforest. Both are completely unprepared for the pressures of top league games. Coping with thousands of euphoric expectant fans when you're winning is hard enough, but how to cope with thousands of furious and hostile fans when you lose? Add to that the shock of overnight success and fame and with it the ubiquitous material trappings of mobile phones, imported cars, designer clothes, society girlfriends, and your first passport. Can these boys avoid becoming spoiled and arrogant? Or worse, succumb to the pressures, mental more than physical, of being at the top...

Episode 3: Before Maradona, before David Beckham, Paulo Cesar Lima, aka Caju, was the rascal of Brazilian football in the 1970s. A genius with footwork, he had a curve kick that few goalies could predict. He was a showman and a show-off: trying out trick shots to impress the crowd and often risking missing a goal to try an amazing new shot. At a time before football stars, when salaries were low, and players signed blank contracts, footballers did not mix with elite society, but Caju changed all that, hanging out with nobility and celebrities all over the world, wearing show stoppingly flashy outfits, being seen at all the top nightspots, and dating the most beautiful women - Caju was the first real football superstar. But what happens when talent fades, or worse, is forgotten? This film follows Caju today as he visits his friends, whose secretaries have never heard of him and in whose big imported cars he sits, knowing he will never be able to afford one himself.
 
Tad too footbally for me that one, TLM.

Less footbally - The PBS PooToob Channel. Really good for a wide range of docz. PBS are pretty reliable for turning out some goodiez - mostly historical and science stuff. They're all full length too rather than split into chunks like so often on't Toob.

Also found the whole series of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World on there recently. Used to love it as a nipper and is still very entertaining. If a tad silly at times.
 
nomy said:
Another offering from the hit and miss Horizon series sounds very interesting tonight @ 9pm BBC2. Me thinks a few spliffs will be a necessary requirement.
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what was that horizon episode called?
 
Shambles said:
Tad too footbally for me that one, TLM.

Less footbally - The PBS PooToob Channel. Really good for a wide range of docz. PBS are pretty reliable for turning out some goodiez - mostly historical and science stuff. They're all full length too rather than split into chunks like so often on't Toob.

Also found the whole series of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World on there recently. Used to love it as a nipper and is still very entertaining. If a tad silly at times.
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to be honest its not reallly even about footy as such, just about social aspirations in brazil and how sport can transcend this, most of the footage is about the players in thier everyday lives and how they interact and respond to newfound fame or soon to be expectations, and its really a riveting watch.
 
I have a pathological aversion to all things sporty - even just a smidgeon sporty - but I know you're a man with taste so may look it up anyway some time :)

Nomy: Am also wondering which Panorama that one was. I usually enjoy their stuff but tend to catch them on iPlayer, PooToob or one of the doc sites that post them. I presume it's a recent one so still on iPlayer, perhaps?
 
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