Once the field of genetics was developed, our understanding of biology was completely transformed. How did this specifically impact the field of anthropology? From Mendel's laws to the Human Genome Project, let's learn about how our...

NaturaDôme, developed by Benoît Darré and architect Pierre Dubus, offers a new model of eco-friendly housing. This unique dome integrates seamlessly into the landscape, using recycled materials and innovative design to create...

Discover how sustainable wine certification programs are shaping the future of vineyard management. Learn about the principles of low input viticulture and the benefits of ecosystem-focused farming.

Discover practical garden planning strategies to maximize yield throughout the growing season. This guide presented by an Oregon State University Extension Service Community and Urban Horticulturist, covers early to late season planting,...

In this video, we will create a Notion swipe file to supercharge ChatGPT. You will learn about the benefits of using a swipe file to organize information and the steps involved in creating a swipe file in Notion.
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Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values.



Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity...

Economist Wang-Sheng Lee, Monash University, talks about the outcome of his study into the effects of chess in education in a school in rural Bangladesh where the children had had no exposure to the game before this randomized trial.

What is Frame Dependence? Frame dependence means that people make decisions that are influenced by the manner in which the information is presented. Frame dependence manifests itself in the way that people form attitudes towards gains...

Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how many people educated in the Western tradition, himself included, have only recently come to appreciate the intellectual significance of many aspects of Buddhist thought.

Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how sometimes too much transparency in politics isn't actually good for us.

UCSD Prof. of Chinese Studies Karl Gerth describes how the West should set a better example in a number of key public policy areas in its dealings with China, and how a close examination of China can help us improve as well.

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In this video, Dartmouth College historian Darren McMahon discusses his shift towards writing about topics that are not only intellectually stimulating but also resonate with a broader audience. He delves into the concept of genius as a...

Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth) details how investigating the etymology of "genius" naturally led him to a deeper understanding of what he had previously thought was primarily an 18th-century phenomenon.

Princeton University historian David Cannadine describes his belief that the standard historical categorisations of religion, nation, class, gender, race or civilisation that have been often used to understand history might not actually...

Historian David Armitage (Harvard) details the deep revulsion that civil war held for ancient Romans and how it deeply threatened their ideas of citizenship and belonging.

Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his initial confusion when trying to understand Machiavelli and other Renaissance philosophers when they spoke of what it means to be a free citizen.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes his philosophical position of being a so-called "functional dualist" together with the associated key distinction between type and token physicalism.

In today's What the Theory?, I take a look social class looking at both Karl Marx's theory of class as well as Pierre Bourdieu, cultural capital and more societally rooted approaches to class in the twenty-first...

Although originating in the dramatic theatre or narrative theatre, dramaturgy is an increasingly useful notion for describing the affective journey an audience goes on while watching a play or performance.



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Award-winning violinmaker and acoustical researcher Joseph Curtin describes many intriguing aspects of the age-old question of whether or not a Stradivarius violin is fundamentally different from other violins.

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) highlights the key issue of "retrieval" so integral to sentence production.