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Community Concern
Primatologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal (Emory) distinguishes between the community concern of humans and of animals.
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Chomsky From a Non-Chomskyan
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, a "non-Chomskyan", pays allegiance to Noam Chomsky’s profound contributions to linguistics.
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Aristotelian Capacities and Flourishing
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes the standard Aristotelian argument of capacities and flourishing.
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Ecumenical Protestantism
Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) describes the Ecumenical Protestant movement and its huge impact on American cultural and political life.
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Against Dawkins
Renowned polymath and physicist Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how the so-called "militant atheist" movement leads to intolerance and extremism.Reno
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Anti-Science?
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the anti-scientific attitude that some music experts hold.
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Grounding and Anchoring
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts University) explains how his grounding and anchoring model of social ontology works.
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Global Morality
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes the inevitable moral questions that arise when taking global governance seriously.
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Flaunting the Laws
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UC San Diego) describes why the zone of applicability of human rights laws and treaties is so small.
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In the Shadow of The West
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes his personal experiences of growing up in Asia while being disproportionately affected by Western cultural, philosophical and economic considerations.
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Hitting the Road
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how important it is for his research to travel and regularly interact with people on the ground.
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Harnessing a Crisis
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.
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Dignity and Democracy
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) highlights the importance of dignity for a well-functioning democracy.
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Life Without the Sun
For 53 years, John Kapellas enjoyed the bright sky of the western US, but one day he started to burn, blister and break out in rashes whenever he was exposed to light. Now allergic to the entire spectrum of light, Kapellas has spent the...
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Garth Nix on Genre, Elements, and the Seventh Tower Series
Garth Nix answers fan questions. In this video, he explains why he writes fantasy novels, how he came up with the Seventh Tower series, and his historical and mythological influences in the development of the magic bells. Garth Nix...
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The Personal Toll of the AIDS Epidemic
John reflects on rhis friendships and romantic relationships in the 1980s and 90s. He discusses the HIV and AIDS epidemic and the impact that had on many of his friends. John explains that friends were dying so quickly that he was not...
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Dating in the Dark
At the age of 30, John Kapellas was married and had a child when he came out as gay. He and his wife decided to stay together but lead a mostly celebate life. In this video, John discusses what that time in his life was like and how his...
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Why I Joined a DAO, and Why I Left | Friends With Benefits DAO
Why I Joined a DAO, and Why I Left | Friends With Benefits DAO
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Why Are Dating Apps So Bad?
We’re going to talk about why dating apps suck so much. Hint: it has to do with AI, but not in the ways that you might think.
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Excel: Sorting and Filtering Data in Excel
This video will introduce tools to sort and filter data, teaching how to organize data in alphabetical order, reverse sort, and create custom sorts using multiple criteria. It also demonstrates how to filter records based on specific...
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Tracking "Democracy"
Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) highlights the importance of investigating the etymology of "democracy" in order to better appreciate the evolution of our political beliefs.
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Athenian Inversions
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes how his generation of classical Greek historians took a different approach to Athens of the 4th century BCE.
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Appreciating Historical Variability
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) relates how a core value of intellectual history is that it naturally forces us to relativize contemporary positions that we might naively conclude are absolute.
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Unexpected Windows
Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth) describes the benefits of engaging in intellectual history.