History of consumerism
[10:42] It’s only very recently in history that we’ve been able to buy more than the bare necessities. Can the histo…
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Disproving Gods with Science and History
[39:42] In this lecture, Dr. Richard Carrier quickly surveys the history of major religions, and lays out a collection …
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Camille A. Brown: The history of African-American social dance
[4:52] Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditi…
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Animated map shows how the world’s first written languages spread
[2:35] The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and la…
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When and Why Did Men Start Getting Circumcised?
[7:08] Having served variously as a mark of virility, servility and gentility, circumcision has throughout the centu…
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4 Billion Years in Under 10 Minutes
[9:31] Have you ever wondered how our earth was created? Here is a brief history about the Earth. [Scource: SciShow You T…
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The History and Future of Everything – Time
[7:10] How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it…
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How religious faith came to be
[15:00] I explain how I learned from A History of God that the evidence indicates that the Jewish concept of monotheism e…
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Ancient DNA and Human Evolution: Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes and What They Tell Us
[16:37] In this talk Kay Prüfer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) explains that the analysis of h…
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The link between religion and territory over the ages
[3:15] A cartoon that sums up the link between territory and religion over he ages. This short, thought provoking carto…
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