{"id":640218,"date":"2010-01-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/3f5e3402e8eb75120063b46c21515259"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T18:00:00","slug":"a-brilliant-madness-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640218","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliant Madness online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/01\/nash.jpg?resize=124%2C137\" width=\"124\" height=\"137\" \/>I&#8217;ve just discovered that the excellent PBS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/nash\/\">documentary<\/a> <i>A Brilliant Madness<\/i> that looks at the life of Nobel-prize winning mathematician, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.\">John Nash<\/a>, is available online either as <a href=\"http:\/\/documentaryheaven.com\/a-brilliant-madness-%E2%80%93-john-nash\/\">streamed<\/a> video or as a <a href=\"http:\/\/piratebay.org\/torrent\/4476226\/The_American_Experience_-_A_Brilliant_Madness_%282002_Documentary%29\">torrent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nash was famously the subject of the Oscar-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Beautiful_Mind_%28film%29\">film<\/a>, <i>A Beautiful Mind<\/i>, although the while the main plot elements are true &#8211; he both won the Nobel prize and experienced decades of psychosis &#8211; his life was heavily fictionalised to the point of being schmaltzy.<\/p>\n<p>The PBS documentary is a more honest, but no less inspirational, look at Nash, and is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Beautiful_Mind_%28book%29\">biography<\/a> by Silvia Nasar.<\/p>\n<p>Nash himself gives an articulate account of his own illness and how society deals with those who experience other realities, while the documentary traces Nash&#8217;s sometimes less-than-flattering earlier life story to his later years where he is widely considered to be an altogether more gentle and humane individual.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know the real story behind <i>A Beautiful Mind<\/i> or more about Nash it is essential viewing.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/nash\/\">Link<\/a> to information on the documentary from PBS.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/documentaryheaven.com\/a-brilliant-madness-%E2%80%93-john-nash\/\">Link<\/a> to flash streamed version.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/piratebay.org\/torrent\/4476226\/The_American_Experience_-_A_Brilliant_Madness_%282002_Documentary%29\">Link<\/a> to torrent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered that the excellent PBS documentary A Brilliant Madness that looks at the life of Nobel-prize winning mathematician, John Nash, is available online either as streamed video or as a torrent. Nash was famously the subject of the Oscar-winning film, A Beautiful Mind, although the while the main plot elements are true &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Gy6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}