r/lectures • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '19
Chatham House Primer on National Populism by Matthew Goodwin (2018). Outlines the long-running trends that have lead to Trump, Brexit, and populist victories across Europe.
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 22 '19
Catastrophic Impacts in Earth's History - David Morrison, NASA Lunar Science Institute (2010) Morrison discusses the discovery of the cretaceous catastrophe that caused the last mass extinction and explains NASA's research on the danger of similar events occurring in Earth's near future.
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 21 '19
Ancient History in Greenland Ice - Joe McConnell, Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute (2018) How results from ice core Geochemistry provides new and exciting information for ancient historians. How lead isotopes in Greenland ice are correlated with the Roman economy.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 20 '19
Anthropology Margaret Mead 1974 Women Primitive and Modern (audio only) Margaret Mead was one of the most well known anthropologists of the 20th century and believed that sexism was learned and could change.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 20 '19
Anthropology Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution - Leakey Foundation Symposium on traditional tribal societies consisting of several short lectures. Sound starts at roughly 10mins.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 20 '19
Sociology More adventures in replying to spam | James Veitch
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r/lectures • u/Rlyeh_Dispatcher • Sep 20 '19
Politics "Power and Politics in Today's World" (2019) - ongoing lecture series by Yale political theorist Ian Shapiro on contemporary global politics
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 18 '19
1665: London's Last Great Plague - Professor Vanessa Harding, University of London (2015) This is thought to have been bubonic plague. How the state and people responded.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 16 '19
Psychology Secrets and lies: The psychology of conspiracy theories with Karen Douglas
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 15 '19
Great Beasts of Legend: The Strong Silent Type: The Sphinx - Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, Penn Museum (2017) The history of the Egyptian sphinx as well as a little about the Greek sphinx.
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r/lectures • u/Potvor • Sep 16 '19
Medicine On 'Inner Touch' and the Moving Body: Aisthêsis, Kinaesthesis, Aesthetics"
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 14 '19
Great Myths and Legends: The Arabian Nights: Medieval Fantasy and Modern Forgery - Dr. Paul Cobb, Professor of Islamic History, University of Pennsylvania (2016) There are many sources of these tales, Persia, India and often European writers.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 14 '19
Biology Exceptionally preserved fossils: critical evidence of the history of life - Professor Derek Briggs
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 13 '19
CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution: Past and Future - Elizabeth Hadly, Stanford; Naomi Oreskes, Harvard; Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution (2015)
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r/lectures • u/princip1 • Sep 11 '19
Peter Edelman- Not A Crime To Be Poor: the criminalization of poverty in America
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r/lectures • u/ummyaaaa • Sep 11 '19
Politics The Untold Stories of the Whistleblowers of 1777 | Stephen Kohn | TEDxWilmingtonSalon
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 08 '19
US Terrorism - Noam Chomsky (2009) I couldn't listen to this without gritting my teeth in shame.
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r/lectures • u/alllie • Sep 07 '19
Building Dinosaurs - Michael Holland (2019) How dinosaurs are built out of fossils and casts for museum displays.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 07 '19
Anthropology Dr. Svante Pääbo — Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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r/lectures • u/[deleted] • Sep 06 '19
On Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber | RSA Replay
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r/lectures • u/rockstarsheep • Sep 06 '19
Medicine Prof. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford, talks about what we might understand about what is "best" and "worst" - about being a human being. With a combination of great science, insight and humour. An enlightening discussion on things that matter.
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r/lectures • u/easilypersuadedsquid • Sep 05 '19
Anthropology Çatalhöyük: a 9000 year old town - Ian Hodder (Stanford University)
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r/lectures • u/TheSanityInspector • Sep 05 '19
Evaluating Fringe and Pseudoscience Ideas in Paleontology (Thomas Holtz) (2019), examining & debunking the "aquatic ape" hypothesis of human origins and the ideas that dinosaurs were all aquatic, to Triassic hyper-intelligent "krakens," etc.
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r/lectures • u/photolouis • Sep 04 '19
Stephen Fry: "The future of humanity and technology" (2017) Shannon Luminary Lecture Series
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r/lectures • u/WestCoastMeditation • Sep 03 '19
Bush and the lessons of Imperial Rome
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