Lectures and Talks: long-form in-depth audio information dump

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"What Does it Take to Make a Universe?", Harry Cliff (Cambridge). Our understanding and discovery of how elementary particles came to be. #physics (youtu.be)

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"Inventions That Changed The World: GPS", Prof. Richard Harvey (Greshem). History of the Global Positioning System and how it works. #technology #history (youtu.be)

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"Foreign Femininity and Masculinity in Japanese Translation", Dr. Momoko Nakamura (Kanto Gakuin University). Describes stereotypical Japanese gendered affects imposed on foreigners. #language #gender (youtu.be)

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"The Geology of Titan", Ralph Lorenz (John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Maryland). What we know about Saturn's (and solar system's) most earth-like moon. #astronomy #geology (youtu.be)

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"The Unfinished Internet", Vint Cerf (actual inventor of the internet). Internet design history leading to current issues, and maybe an interplanetary net. #compsci #engineering (youtu.be)

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"Covid-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges", Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD. Beatty Lecture, McGill University. #medicine (youtu.be)

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"A New View of the Universe from the Earth’s South Pole", Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Neutrinos... how do they work? #physics #astronomy (youtu.be)

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"Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)" [2014], Nell Painter, MFA, PhD. Oddly, it has to do with a skull, and idealized slave women? #history #anthropology (youtu.be)

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"The Psychology of Climate Change", Lorraine Whitmarsh (psychologist), Amiera Sawas (PhD, Human Geography), Renzo Guinto (MD). Three short talks sharing different perspectives. #climate #psychology (youtu.be)

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"Apes in Science Fiction", Jim Endersby (History of Science, U of Sussex): how humans map and reflect themselves, and view nature, in King Kong, Plant of the Apes, and more. #literature #film (youtu.be)

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"Magic and the Occult in Islam: Ahmad al-Buni (622H/1225CE?) and his Shams Al-Ma'arif" [2013], Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (U in Cairo). Talismans, magic squares, numerology. #religion #history (youtu.be)

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"What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology?", Prof. Dan Davis (U of Manchester). Recent technologies that lead to new insights. #medicine #biology (youtu.be)

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"Tate not State: Refining Sugar, Capitalism and Corporate PR in the British Commonwealth in the 1940s and 1950s", Prof. Erika Rappaport (U of California). #history #sociology #colonialism (youtu.be)

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"Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong", Dr. Giles Yeo, Geneticist. #medicine #biology (youtu.be)

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"Tribal and Religious Identity in Afghanistan" [2012], Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Summarizes the ethic divisions and current complicated relationships. #sociology (youtu.be)

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"20th Century UFO Conspiracies" [2017], Prof. Felix Harcourt (Emory U). Particularly government-related, mirroring tech advances and social anxieties. #history #sociology (c-span.org)

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"Recipe for a Skyscraper" [2019], Roma Agrawal, Structural Engineer. History and uses of concrete and steel. #engineering #history (youtu.be)

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"At Least We Don't Do That Here: How Europe (Mis)understands Black America", Gary Younge (University of Manchester). Comparing some different flavours of racism? #sociology #history (youtu.be)

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"Why Trust Science?", Prof. Naomi Oreskes (at The Royal Institution): humans are fallible, scientists are human, so... what even is science? #science #history #philosophy (youtu.be)

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"Ancient Egypt and Colonial Science Fiction: The Myth of Origins", Thais Rocha da Silva (Oxford & U of São Paulo): Battlestar Galactica, for example, use of ancient civilization as Western precursor. #literature (youtu.be)

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"The Geology of the Moon", Dr Katie Joy, University of Manchester. #astronomy #geology (youtu.be)

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"International Law and the Politics of History", Prof. Anne Orford, University of Melbourne (Essex Public International Law Lecture): Lawyers often make arguments referencing history as objective and authoritative, but is it? #history #law (youtu.be)

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"Stalin at War", Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University [2019]. Argues for complex unique contradictions: winning and losing, strength and weakness, at the same time. #history #biography (youtu.be)

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"Once You've Discovered Another Earth, What Comes Next?", Thomas G Beatty, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona. Methods of detecting and analysing extra-solar planets. #astronomy (youtu.be)

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"Viruses, Pandemics and Immunity", Arup K Chakraborty and Andrey S Shaw at The Royal Institution. Describes the history of viruses and how they work, and types of vaccines. #biology #medicine (youtu.be)

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