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　　该片由英国著名科学家大卫·艾登堡禄花费3年心血而精心制作。他环游全球，历经42个国家，记录下了300多种鸟的生活。在片中，您可以听到琴鸟模仿汽车报警的声音，能够看到乌鸦用树枝“钓”虫子的趣味景象，将会了解生活在赤道附近的企鹅的生活。一个多彩多姿的鸟世界赫然展现在您的面前。

　　A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning 'The Joy of Stats' and its sequel, 'Tails You Win - The Science of Chance', this film takes viewers on a new rollercoaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology- all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic.
　　Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers to tell the fascinating story of the quest for certainty and the fundamentals of sound reasoning itself.
　　Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, is no abstract theoretician. 15 years ago he combined logic and a bit of maths to write one of the first computer programs to outperform humans at trading stocks and shares. Giving away the software for free, he says, was not his most logical move...
　　With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time ever, a computer made entirely of children, running on nothing but logic. We also meet the world's brainiest whizz-kids, competing at the International Olympiad of Informatics in Brisbane, Australia.
　　'The Joy of Logic' also hails logic's all-time heroes: George Boole who moved logic beyond philosophy to mathematics; Bertrand Russell, who took 360+ pages but heroically proved that 1 + 1 = 2; Kurt Godel, who brought logic to its knees by demonstrating that some truths are unprovable; and Alan Turing, who, with what Cliff calls an 'almost exquisite paradox', was inspired by this huge setback to logic to conceive the computer.
　　Ultimately, the film asks, can humans really stay ahead? Could today's generation of logical computing machines be smarter than us? What does that tell us about our own brains, and just how 'logical' we really are...?

　　1 波普艺术(POP)字面意思就是流行艺术.和流行音乐/文化含义一样,意义其实也类似.
　　2 本片采访POP一堆教父级别的人物.是其他艺术运动纪录片从未有过的.
　　3 POP用通俗的表达方法打掉了看似高雅的抽象现代艺术. 前者让大众接受, 后者更多只是个人无法理解的表现.
　　4 POP形式上类似于推销和宣传,而本质上是使用同样手段反宣传反推销.
　　5 POP的高潮在50年代的纽约,而21世纪的热点,甚至代表人物在中国.