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Friday Nite Videos -- January 2, 2015

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Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was. Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar.' Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism. Movie: The Imitation Game. What's Really Weird About Placebos.

Movie: The Imitation Game

The story of Alan Turing, British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the effort to crack the German Enigma Code, helping the Allies win WWII. After the war Turing was prosecuted by the UK government for homosexual acts.
 

Alan Turing's Pardon Is Wrong

Ally Fogg The Guardian
To single out Turing is to say all the other persecuted gay men are not so deserving of justice because they were less exceptional
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