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Documentaries like The Mind, Explained

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The 3 reasons people love The Mind, Explained

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  1. You like learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics.

  2. You want the science explained by researchers in plain words.

  3. You want short episodes you can watch one at a time.

Picks that share your reasons

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  • AlphaGo2017

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics

    Good for you if you want to see the real match that made the news in 2016.

  • Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge2016

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics

    Good for you if you want to see how far social pressure can push a real person.

  • Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?2013

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics

    Good for you if you want to hear Noam Chomsky talk about his own childhood and family.

  • The Unbelievers2013

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics
    • the science explained by researchers in plain words

    Good for you if you want arguments built on evidence.

  • A Brief History of Time1991

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics

    Good for you if you want the man behind the book, his illness and his family.

  • Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World2016

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics

    Good for you if you like hearing the people who built the internet tell how it began.

  • Particle Fever2013

    • learning how your own brain dreams, remembers and panics
    • the science explained by researchers in plain words

    Good for you if you want real physics explained by the people doing it.

  • Tim's Vermeer2013

    • the science explained by researchers in plain words

    Good for you if you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.

  • Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking2010

    • the science explained by researchers in plain words

    Good for you if you want big questions grounded in real physics.

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