BBC Horizon: What Makes a Genius?

[oscilor]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qzlbv

Not sure if this has been posted before. I have only watched a bit of it, but Prof Manuel Casanova is interviewed talking about connectivity and genius, and I immediately thought of Sophist. For some reason I had assumed he would have an American accent, but it is Hispanic (?).

[Sophist]

Manny's from Puerto Rico, my latino love.

I'm trying to download the documentary as a torrent. Neither of us were aware it was out already. The BBC link you provided won't let me play it. But I hope the torrent is okay.

I'll have to tell Manny it's out already.

[Civet]

Oh is that your boyfriend Manny who is in the video, Sophist? That is really cool!

It won't play for me either, the issue is that we're not in the broadcast area so they don't allow us to view it online (I have this problem with a BBC2 program I like to watch, too, though I can find it uploaded on megaupload pretty quickly as it's quite popular). If the torrent works can you let us know?

[Sophist]

Oh is that your boyfriend Manny who is in the video, Sophist? That is really cool!

Yep, that's my lovey.

Funny thing is when they were filming, he kept using big words and finally the director threatened to charge him money for every big word he used.

It won't play for me either, the issue is that we're not in the broadcast area so they don't allow us to view it online (I have this problem with a BBC2 program I like to watch, too, though I can find it uploaded on megaupload pretty quickly as it's quite popular). If the torrent works can you let us know?

The version I downloaded worked. I got it from here: http://www.torrentz.com/66b22887cfde221 ... e3e45c2e89 although you'll need a player like VLC to play codecs. But it's freeware, so I'd recommend downloading VLC if you don't have it.

[Civet]

Thanks Sophist, I will try to download it later. I've got VLC player

[Sophist]

Manny's part comes up at about minute 9. It starts off with him cutting a brain in half. When I told him (he hasn't seen it yet) he cringed because he's been going on and on about how much using that brain and the tissue lab had cost him ($1200!). And he was moaning because, for $1200, the BBC had only used one shot of his extremely expensive brain, lol.

[Civet]

I watched it this morning and it was quite interesting.