The History Behind Russia’s Expansionary Foreign Policy (Hoover Inst.)

Is Russia inherently imperialist and expansionist? Russia wasn’t forced to invade Ukraine, but its leaders chose to do so because they want Russia to become a great power. If Russian elites could somehow relinquish their unwinnable competition with the West, they could set their country on a less costly and more promising course. Discussion Questions: …

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Forces of Nature (Brian Cox)

A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. [The book provides additional insight into Darwin’s Natural Selection Theory] Listen to the Audio

Mind over Medicine: Spontaneous Remissions (Lissa Rankin)

While some mind-body medicine pioneers and New Age teachers talk about how we can heal ourselves, Dr. Lissa Rankin was a skeptical physician, trained in evidence-based academic medicine and raised by a closed-minded physician father. But after witnessing patients who declined conventional medical treatment, only to experience spontaneous remissions from seemingly “”incurable”” illnesses, she couldn’t …

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Why the Enlightenment still matters today (Professor Justin Champion)

The Enlightenment” has been regarded as a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. The principles of religious tolerance, optimism about human progress and a demand for rational debate are often thought to be a powerful legacy of the ideas of Locke, Newton, Voltaire and Diderot. There was however a radical Enlightenment, indebted …

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Scientists Have Just Found An Untouched Civilization On Top Of A Mountain In The Amazon Jungle

Archaeologists have been exploring our planet for centuries trying to find evidence of prehistoric Civilizations all around the world. And while some believe there are no more of these Civilizations left to discover, a recent Discovery deep in the Amazon jungle proves that some ancient Civilizations have yet to be uncovered. In today’s video, we’ll …

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A Most Interesting Problem

A Most Interesting Problem: What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution Join The Leakey Foundation for a free virtual celebration of Darwin’s birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Descent of Man. A Most Interesting Problem brings together seven world-class scholars and science communicators to explore what …

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