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The English Surgeon

A good documentary does more to stimulate my mind than the best fictional films. The English Surgeon is above and beyond a spectacular documentary. Most scriptwriters couldn't dare compete with the sheer drama and uncomfortable tension filmmaker Geoffrey Smith captures in his real-life story of English neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, who became fed up with the inability of Ukrainian doctors to treat patients in need of brain operations and decided to do something about it. When a young Ukrainian man needs an operation to remove a tumor in his brain, Doctor Smith is his only hope for long-term survival. Unfortunately for this patient, modern luxuries are nowhere to be found in modern-day Ukraine and the only the way the operation can move forward is by using nothing but local anesthetics to reduce the pain of drilling thru the scull and scraping away the cancerous cells growing on his brain--In other words, doing the entire operation while completely awake and conscious. Beyond the unbelievable situations throughout the film, the simple message of humanitarianism shines.  In today's consumerist smorgasbord of a world we live in, it can be easy to forget the simple things that make being a fellow human being a rewarding experience. This film helps remind us. -Clayton Hauck

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Podcasting

Brain Stuff.
(itunes link, web link)

HowStuffWorks.com offers a nice variety of interesting podcasts but the first one I stumbled upon was Brain Stuff. It's a short but sweet look into, well, how stuff works. Each podcast gives a straight and to-the-point explaination on a wide variety of topics of which you are sure to find a few that interest you.

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Main | NERDOM, FOR THE NIGHT OWL »
Tuesday
Feb092010

Nerdom, For The Night Owl 

DateTuesday, February 9, 2010 at 10:18AM

To everyone who went to bed last night and woke up to a winter wonderland, I want you to remember the glory of the snow day. Greatest concept ever, you don't have to go to school, because of horrible weather, instead you just play outside all day. Making snowmen, snow-forts, and sledding, you actually end up having a more productive day then you would just sitting in a classroom all day. Why don't adults get snow days? What if I want to go build a snowman and fly with it to the North Pole to kick it with Santa until the sun comes up? Opium dream......I think not!!!!!!

 

I'm going to make some hot chocolate.

By Marco Polo

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