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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Akademgorodok: Siberia's Super Science Town

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hidden away in the cold of Siberia's forest is an alternative to Silicon Valley, what some refer to as Russia's Silicon Forest. You can think of it as Russia's Eureka or Limetown -- maybe even the Siberian scientific Hogwarts, but Akademgorodok has encaps

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1:23.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

1:30.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I am Christian Saikers.

1:40.0

Robert, did you ever see this movie from the 1980s?

1:45.0

Sorry, John Travolta, called the Experts. I have not.

1:52.0

So my memory of this movie is John Travolta and his co-star, whose name I can't remember, are nightclub managers in New York or something like that.

2:01.0

And they think they're going into Nebraska, but they end up going to Soviet Russia to a fake town that is built there solely by the KGB to like the KGB.

2:13.0

They're just pretty much.

2:18.0

They're Russian agents who are trained to understand American culture.

2:24.0

And anyways, those guys, John Travolta and his pal, end up teaching them about all the great things about American culture.

2:33.0

They love it so much that they turn against Soviet Russia.

2:37.0

And anyways, it's kind of a proto-American thing.

2:40.0

It is very much so. So I couldn't help thinking about that movie, the Experts, the entire time I was researching for today's episode, which is about a little place.

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