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'How The Kids Took Over'
Tko su pravi bogovi konzumerizma? Djeca! Dječje tržište danas je teško trilijun dolara i diktira prodaju svega, od knjiga i hrane do telekomunikacija i automobila. Dobro 45-minutno seciranje stanja stvari.

'Shadow Government'
Veliki brat vas gleda (OK, možda ne još vas, ali Amere zasigurno), posvuda – od kreditnih kartica preko ulice do frižidera. Kako i zašto? Pogledajte u još jednom aktualnom dokumentarnom filmu koji analizira drugu stranu onog što olako volimo nazivati 'teorijom zavjere'.

'Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail'
Pravo blago za ljubitelej prave povijesti, dokumentarac koji sadrži sljedeće: color film of the Nazi expedition to Antarctica; film of the Nazi expeditions across the world, from the Baltic to Venezuela; footage of the 1938 expedition to Tibet, with the measuring of skulls of Tibetans; documentary evidence for expeditions to Peru, Iceland and Iran, and footage of SS chief Heinrich Himmler at archaeological sites. I još puno toga!



'S21, The Khmer Rouge Death Machine'
Crveni Kmeri kao klinci su mučili i ubijali političke zatvorenike, a sada nas kao odrasli ljudi vode kroz mračnu prošlost opisujući procedure na samim lokacijama, pred kamerama, a katkad čak i pred preživjelim žrtvama svog terora. Fascinantan real life horor.

'Storyville: Cage Fighting Women'
Još jedan britanocentrični dokumentarac iz radionice Storyvillea, ali svejedno dobar uvid u lik i djelo djevojaka koje se iz gušta mlate u kavezima.

'Knockout Secrets'
Za svakog tko se ikada bavio borilačkim vještinama, ali i za one koji su ih samo pratili, ovo je esencijalno – MMA ikone otkrivaju tajne nokauta, od toga kako nokautirati do kako ga podnijeti, secirajući svoja iskustva, pričajući o fiziološkim uzrocima nokauta, itd. itd. Dva sata dokumentarca o nokautu – svaka čast! :)

Badge of Honor for the New Fighter: Mangled Ear
Once an outlaw sport derided for its brutality, the prizefighting style known as mixed martial arts or ultimate fighting has toned down its act to gain government approval, a loyal television audience and hundreds of gyms training youngsters across the country. Now, to herald its full arrival, mixed martial arts has claimed a signature injury — cauliflower ear.

Both musicians and non-musicians can perceive bitonality
If you're a non-musician like me, you might not have noticed anything. It sounds basically like the familiar song, even though the synthesized sax isn't nearly as pleasing as the familiar Nat King Cole version of the song. But most trained musicians can't listen to a song like this without cringing. Why? Because the music has been made "bitonal" by moving the accompanying piano part up two semitones (a semitone is the difference between a "natural" note and a sharp or flat). Here's the original, unaltered piece:

Indefinite Guantanamo detention plans condemned
The American Civil Liberties Union has criticised a recommendation that 47 Guantanamo Bay inmates should be held indefinitely without trial.



Review And Highlights Of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook
I found Part One to be rather dry and uninteresting with no real revelations, however Parts Two and Three were such that my highlighter pen was in danger of running out of ink. To attempt a review of Parts Two and Three just wouldn’t be good enough and so I’ve chosen to provide several quote and passages from the book so that I do not dilute or exaggerate what Russell has written. So here are just a few interesting snippets: “We are accustomed, in our own day, to protest against the empire of machinery and eloquent yearning for a return to a simpler day……Return to nature, if it were taken seriously, would involve the death by starvation of some 90 per cent. of the population of civilized countries.”

An illustrated history of trepanation
Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning "to bore") is perhaps the oldest form of neurosurgery. The procedure, which is called a craniotomy in medical terminology, involves the removal of a piece of bone from the skull, and it has been performed since prehistoric times. The oldest trepanned skull, found at a neolithic burial site of Ensisheim in France, is more than 7,000 years old, and trepanation was practised by the Ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks and the early Mesoamerican civilizations. The procedure is still performed today, for both medical and non-medical reasons.

The Neuroscience Of Jazz
Improvisation is the main feature of Jazz that distinguishes it from other forms of music making. Improvisation is the spontaneous musical performance within a relevant musical context. It consists of novel melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical elements. This unique feature of jazz offers the opportunity for neurobiological research or even creativity. What they did was do a functional MRI brain scan on 6 highly skilled professional jazz musicians.

Jeff Monson, politički osviješteni MMA fajter se između ostaloga 'proslavio' time što je početkom prošle godine na zgradu Washington State Capitola nasprejao sljedeće grafite – anarhiju (A u krugu), peace sign i riječi 'no poverty', 'no war'. I sve to javno, pred fotografima, zbog čega je odmah uhićen i zatvoren. Nedavno je izišao i prokomentirao: 'Bio sam svjestan posljedica svog čina, ali ponekad moraš napraviti ono u što vjeruješ, bez obzira na posljedice.'

'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', pjevao je legendarni Gill Scott-Heron još 1971. godine, ali da je prije toga malo bolje čitao Orwella, znao bi da je u krivu – pojam videokracije upotrebljava i John Kifner, novinar The New York Timesa, kada opisuje rumunjsku revoluciju i smaknuće Ceausescua, 'prvu revoluciju emitiranu uživo na televiziji'.
No opet, Scott-Heron u neku ruku i jest bio u pravu – nova revolucija nije samo na televiziji, nova revolucija jest televizija, a ta je revolucija, kako je opisuje i redatelj dokumentarnog filma 'Videokracija', zapravo nova 'kulturna revolucija', prisutna gotovo posvuda, ali s fascinantnim, gotovo šizofrenim simptomima naglašenima u modernom talijanskom društvu, simptomima koji imaju tendenciju zaraziti i svoju okolinu, a kojoj, vidi vraga, pripada i Hrvatska. Ta nova, digitalna, zaglupljujuća i šarena, plesom, smijehom i golim poprsjima vođena revolucija možda nije toliko okrutna kao Maova kulturna revolucija u Kini šezdesetih, ali je gotovo identično antiintelektualna i dovoljno brutalna u svojoj virtualnoj ponudi snova narodu koji uvijek nasjeda na iste trikove.

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