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Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?
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Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth
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Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, munda... Read more
6 Nov 2018
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Why Do People Reject Good Science?
Why Do People Reject Good Science?
Scientists are often puzzled when members of the public reject what we consider to be well-founded explanations. They ca... Read more
31 Oct 2018
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the Empathy Wall
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Arlie Hochschild describes her journey from Berkeley, her own liberal cultural enclave, to Louisiana, a conservative one... Read more
11 Dec 2017
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Immortality - An Egyptian Dream
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The Philosophy of As If with Kwame Anthony Appiah
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A leading moral and political philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York Universit... Read more
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A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - 2014
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The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
Sarah Broadie, a specialist in classical philosophy and professor at the University of St. Andrews, explores the human b... Read more
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The Elephant in the Room: The Psychology of Innuendo and Euphemism
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Why don't people just say what they mean? In this lecture, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker explains the parad... Read more
12 May 2014
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Reason Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity with Robert Brandom
Reason Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity with Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsch... Read more
17 Jun 2013
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Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications with Emmanuel Saez
Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications with Emmanuel Saez
Top incomes represent a small share of the population but a very significant share of total income and total taxes paid.... Read more
11 Mar 2013
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Tropical Forests: Their Future and Our Future with Norman Myers
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Norman Myers was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire and attended Keble College in Oxford. He is a British environmentalist an... Read more
13 Apr 2012
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How Much Cosmology Can We Believe? with Martin Rees
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Martin Rees, Royal Society Research Professor and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge Series: "UC Berkeley... Read more
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The Origins of American Freedom with Eric Foner
The Origins of American Freedom with Eric Foner
Eric Foner is an American historian whose interests include political history, the history of freedom and the early hist... Read more
6 Apr 2012
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Parallel Civilizations: Ancient Angkor and the Ancient Maya with Michael Coe
Parallel Civilizations: Ancient Angkor and the Ancient Maya with Michael Coe
Dr. Michael Coe is recognized for his work in the field of the ethnohistory of Mesoamerica, the historical archaeology o... Read more
9 Mar 2012
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How Many People Can the Earth Support? with Joel E. Cohen
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Joel E. Cohen's research deals with the demography, ecology, epidemiology and social organization of human and non-human... Read more
2 Mar 2012
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Points of Departure: Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow: Moments in Nietzsche Jane Austen et cetera. with Stanley Cavell
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Reflections on a Life in Public Service with Alan K. Simpson
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Alan K. Simpson is a Republican politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States senator from Wyoming. He has ... Read more
24 Feb 2012
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