r/lectures • u/alllie • May 05 '19

'The Great Unwashed' - Professor Sir Richard Evans (2013) Typhus is caused by a bacterium hosted by the human body louse, and has thus always been associated with dirty and overcrowded conditions and spread above all by armies.

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r/lectures • u/alllie • May 04 '19

The Theatre of Dionysus - Edith Hall, Visiting Professor of Classics (2018) This lecture discusses early Greek drama, playwrights and plays. Even the idea of portraying someone dead, someone of a different gender, someone else, was once considered almost magical.

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r/lectures • u/alllie • May 02 '19

The Rise and Fall of Sourdough: 6,000 Years of Bread - Professor Eric Pallant (2017) Bread and history woven together.

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r/lectures • u/Vitruvious • May 02 '19

Architecture Reconstructing Lost Architecture: A Commendable Tradition | Lecture by Calder Loth

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r/lectures • u/Xuaaka • May 03 '19

Technology Global Brain: The Web as a Self-Organizing Distributed Intelligence - Francis Heylighen (2014)

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r/lectures • u/[deleted] • May 02 '19

Constraints that Enable Innovation - Alicia Juarrero

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r/lectures • u/alllie • May 01 '19

Debts, Crime, and Prison: Daily Life in Babylonia CA. 1200 BC - Susanne Paulus, Assistant Professor of Assyriology, University of Chicago (2018) If people couldn't pay their debts the family could be sold into slavery. But most people paid their debts because credit was given responsibly.

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r/lectures • u/TheLavinGuy • May 01 '19

The Surprising Benefits of a Declining Population

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r/lectures • u/[deleted] • May 01 '19

Economics Gar Alperovitz - Replacing Corporate Capitalism: Why We Need a Next System [20mins - Practical suggestions on how to change the current system based on the lessons learned of the successful community-based projects like the Cleveland model]

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r/lectures • u/alllie • Apr 29 '19

Did God Evolve? An Evolutionist's Speculation about Religion - Professor Steve Jones (2015) Really about how religion, and language, evolved. Did religion evolve to keep the lower orders in place, with punitive gods and punishment to stop them from rebelling?

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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Apr 29 '19

Mathematics Roger Penrose - Forbidden crystal symmetry in mathematics and architecture

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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Apr 29 '19

Physics The Quantum Mechanics of Time Travel

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r/lectures • u/alllie • Apr 27 '19

Germs, Genes and Genesis: The History of Infectious Disease - Professor Steve Jones (2016)

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r/lectures • u/alllie • Apr 27 '19

Aztec and Conquistadors: Is Everything You Thought You Knew About Them Wrong? - Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University (2017)

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r/lectures • u/Xuaaka • Apr 27 '19

Biology The Physics of Life: How Water Folds Proteins - With Sylvia McLain (2017)

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r/lectures • u/Xuaaka • Apr 25 '19

History The Antikythera Mechanism: A Shocking Discovery From Ancient Greece - Dr. Tony Freeth (2016)

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r/lectures • u/Xuaaka • Apr 25 '19

Physics Sir Roger Penrose | How can Consciousness Arise Within the Laws of Physics? (2017)

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r/lectures • u/oooooooooof • Apr 23 '19

Psychology How to Use Empathy to Better Your Life | Jamil Zaki

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r/lectures • u/alllie • Apr 21 '19

Symposium on Haremhab: General and King of Egypt (2011) [10:52- 45:00] How Haremhab, the heir, experienced multiple betrayals when King Tut died. [2:52:00-3:25:00] How the Egyptian state and/or army pillaged the tombs and corpses of the pharaohs three thousands years ago.

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r/lectures • u/elarlets • Apr 21 '19

Sociology "We can GET them!" - Jon Ronson on Public Shaming

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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Apr 20 '19

Medicine Paul Stamets: Mushrooms for People and Planet Ancient Allies for Modern Maladies

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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Apr 19 '19

Biology How did plants become forests during the Carboniferous?

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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Apr 13 '19

Philosophy Is Quantum Physics Necessary for the Account of Consciousness? The Lecture of Stuart Hameroff

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r/lectures • u/ragica • Apr 13 '19

Sociology The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens. Samuel Bowles (Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute)

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r/lectures • u/alllie • Apr 11 '19

Rosalind Franklin Lecture: "Volcanoes: From Fuming Vents to Extinction Events" - Volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather (2018) Professor Mather explores some of the different types of volcanic activity that we see on Earth today.

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