What are some of the best movies based on true events, that are educational as well?
Adding some more movies, I don't know whether they have added already or not.Catch Me If You Can based on the life of Frank Abagnale JrSchindler’s List A true story of Oskar Schindler during World War II – a man who saw the Jewish Holocaust in Holland and changed from corrupt businessman to a concerned employer. American Gangster Based on the true story of drug lord Frank Lucas and the detective who brought him downRaging Bull based on Italian American boxer we all know as Jake LaMottaErin Brockovich based on Erin BrockovichRemember the Titans based on African-American football coach Herman Boone8 mileCharlie Wilson's War based on the biography of U.S. congressman Charlie Wilson who partnered with CIA operative Gust Avrakotos to launch Operation Cyclone , a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afganistan.The Fifth Estate as all know based on wikileaks.Rescue Dawn A Christian Bale movie based on the true story of German-American pilot Dieter Dengler who was shot down and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pather Lao during an American military campaign in the Vietnam War.The Bank job based on 1971 baker street robbary.Public Enemies based on John Herbert Dillinger an american gangster and bank robber.Bombay The film is centred on events, particularly during the period of December 1992 to January 1993 in India.Dr.Prakash Baba Amte (Regional Movie-Marathi). The life and work of Dr. Prakash Amte, a selfless doctor who devoted his life to helping the tribal people in the forests of western Maharashtra.I am Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi movie) based on a woman who became a social activist after a traumatic life.Thanks Mangesh Honale Sourab Agarwal for more suggestions.
Who are the smartest (defined however you’d like) TV/movie characters?
May be revealing my love for American TV, but here are some brilliant characters from American TV shows. (MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SEASON 1 OF ELEMENTARY)(Items are not in order.)1) How about Jamie Moriarty (aka Irene Adler) from Elementary? She runs an enormous criminal network, plays everyone off everyone else, and cons her way into and out of anything. It's a pleasure watching this criminal mastermind's plans unfurl.What I love most about this version of Moriarty/Adler, though, is that where a lot of other adaptations of these characters (Moriarty and Adler) tend to become obsessed with Sherlock, Elementary's never does. She's always got her own intricate plans; Sherlock is only an afterthought.(Side note: Elementary's Irene/Moriarty has two of the traits I hate in Irene Adler adaptations (romance with Sherlock and being an antagonist), and yet she's still my favourite version.)2) And of course, surgeon-come-sober companion-come private detective Joan Watson from the same show, Elementary, who kicks all sorts of intellectual arse, from noticing a disease in a patient before an expert in the field does, even though she is years out of the game, to outwitting the aforementioned Jamie Moriarty at her own game.3) And then there's River Tam from Firefly. She could correct her brother's science textbooks at age 5, and was in a PhD program in physics at age 14, not to mention the insane levels of skill in everything from martial arts to flying spaceships.4) And River's close friend Kaylee (Kaywinnet Lee Frye) from the same show. Despite being from the outskirst of the galaxy and lacking any sort of training, this girl is an exceptional engineer who can fix anything.5) Temperance "Bones" Brennan, from Bones. She's a forensic genius and a best-selling novelist.6) Sophie Devereaux, from Leverage. This master grifter doesn't need to know a thing about security systems, because as she says "thieves find entrances, grifters make them". And boy can she make them, from the long con she cultivates for months to the grift-on-the-fly where she plays ten different characters in quick succession, there's no swindle Sophie couldn't pull off.7) Parker, the master thief from the same show. She has an incredible way with locks and sensors as she Macgyvers her way around all manner of security systems and calculates trajectories in her head.8) Veronica Mars, from the show of the same name, the brilliant, savvy teenage detective.
What is the most obscure fact that, upon learning, made you think, "Wow! That's amazing!"?
Get a standard deck of 52 playing cards and shuffle it up really well.Now here is a mind-blowing fact for you. The deck that you now hold in your hand is a unique combination of cards that has almost certainly never been seen in all history, and almost certainly will never be seen again.The number of possible combinations of a standard deck of cards is 52!, which is 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 x 48… x 3 x 2, or 8.0658 x 10^67.To give you an idea of just how big that number actually is, imagine this visualization demonstrating the duration of 52! seconds.Chose any place on the equator you like.Ok, now set the timer on your watch (one that has a heck of a lot of digit room), and stand there for one billion years. After the billion years have passed, take a single step west. Continue taking one step in the same direction every billion years until you go all the way around the earth. (You may have to get your shoes a little wet in the process due to walking across the oceans.)Now, remove one drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and do this for every lap around the planet. Continue with this process until you have removed all the water from the Pacific Ocean, then lay a sheet of paper on the ground and refill the ocean. Put a sheet of paper on top of the other every time you walk around the earth enough times to remove all the water from the Pacific Ocean.Once these sheets of paper are stacked so high that they reach the sun, all you have to do is remove all those pieces of paper and do the exact same thing another 3000 times. Then you will be done.After you are finished, finally, 52! seconds will have just elapsed since you set your watch.52! is a huge number!So next time you are playing cards with your friends, let them know that the deck of cards you are playing with is so special that it has never been seen and never will be seen again. Your little deck of cards, especially your game of cards, is a once-in-history occurrence, so cherish it and have fun!Also be sure to tell your friends how much of a crap load of time you could waste doing crazy shazam like stacking sheets of paper to the sun 3000 times. Seriously, who would actually do that?------You can read more about the amazing number 52! and the cool visualization I explained on this website by Scott Czepiel. 52 Factorial-There is also a great Vsauce video on YouTube called “Math Magic” that talks about this. Check it out! :D
How can you explain environmental studies is multidisciplinary in nature?
Its a hot day, clouds forms, it rains, you made paper boats as kid and you could see more water in wells. That’s how multi disciplinary the subject is. I am not even talking about the whole of environmental science. I will focus just on hydrology.We study about the evapo-transpiration which is due to incoming solar radiation. I will not get into the details of the subject but its mostly physics. Now you have the cloud cover and you can even analyse it with the help of Remote Sensing data (Electromagnetic wave - Physics again). Then the rain falls (measurable with radar data.) It takes pollutants in the atmosphere with itself. Now some of the water flows (fluid mechanics) and the other enters the ground (it reacts with the rocks - Chemistry) flows through the porous media and then the wells are recharged.This is mostly about Physics and Chemistry while math is inseparable at all stages. To name a few important parts of Mathematics. Probability and Statistics (Time Series) for Stochastic Analysis (Chaos in Hydrology). Numerical Integration for flow modelling. Machine learning is also being used now a days in Environmental Sciences (Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences: Neural Networks and Kernels: William W. Hsieh: 9780521791922: Amazon.com: Books). Game Theory (Economics) is used especially for fair (what is fair for one need not be fair for the other) allocation of resource (here water resource).These are just to name a few. The social and political aspects are also an integral part of Environmental Studies.All I would like to say is that its not about the subject which is intrinsically multi-disciplinary. Its more about the approach towards any subject which needs to be multidisciplinary.