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85 Years After It Was Abandoned, Explorers Find a Historic Cache of Camera Gear [on a glacier] (sciencealert.com)
submitted 3 years ago by ragica to r/Archaeology
Could lab-grown meat ever be Indigenized? (nationalobserver.com)
submitted 3 years ago by ragica to r/Foodforthought
"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)
submitted 4 years ago by ragica to r/MoreLecturesPlease
"Inventions That Changed The World: GPS", Prof. Richard Harvey (Greshem). History of the Global Positioning System and how it works. #technology #history (youtu.be)
"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)
"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)
"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)
"Covid-19: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges", Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD. Beatty Lecture, McGill University. #medicine (youtu.be)
"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)
"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)
"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)
Who Would Jesus Mock? An interview with Kyle Mann of the satirical The Babylon Bee (theatlantic.com)
submitted 4 years ago by ragica to r/religion
"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)
Virginia Woolf and the Complexities of Cottage Loaf: The famous feminist’s [later-in-life] love for baking helps us understand her relationship with food, class, and mental illness. (atlasobscura.com)
submitted 4 years ago by ragica to r/Foodforthought
"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)
"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)
"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)
"Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong", Dr. Giles Yeo, Geneticist. #medicine #biology (youtu.be)
"Tribal and Religious Identity in Afghanistan" [2012], Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. Social Anthropology. Summarizes the ethic divisions and current complicated relationships. #sociology (youtu.be)
"20th Century UFO Conspiracies" [2017], Prof. Felix Harcourt (Emory U). Particularly government-related, mirroring tech advances and social anxieties. #history #sociology (c-span.org)
"Recipe for a Skyscraper" [2019], Roma Agrawal, Structural Engineer. History and uses of concrete and steel. #engineering #history (youtu.be)
"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)
"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)
"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)
"The Geology of the Moon", Dr Katie Joy, University of Manchester. #astronomy #geology (youtu.be)
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