3. The Mayans – Ruins Among the Trees

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In the tropical forests of Central America, vast stone pyramids slowly crumble beneath the trees.

In this episode, we look at that great romantic mystery: the fall of the Classic Maya Civilization. Find out how this great civilization grew up among environmental conditions that no other civilization has ever contended with, learn about the fatal flaws that lay beneath its surface, and what happened after its final, cataclysmic collapse.

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Credits:

Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas

Voice Actors:

Bryan Thsiobi
Jacob Rollinson
Jake Barrett-Mills
Helena Bacon

Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/

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Sergio Mendes – In The Key Of Joy (in memoriam full album playthrough)

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Anne Applebaum on the dictators who want to run the world | Tortoise ThinkIn

Anne Applebaum has been tracking the slide away from democracy for decades. But, she says, what is happening right now is unprecedented.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist joined us in the Tortoise to discuss her latest book, Autocracy, Inc., which delves into the intricate and novel webs of modern authoritarian regimes, from Russia, to China, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. She exposes how autocrats are collaborating across borders to undermine democratic institutions, and shines a spotlight on the the kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies and professional propagandists that make it all possible.

You can buy Anne Applebaum’s book, Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, here: https://www.heywoodhill.com/shop/auto…

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Wealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained | LSE Research

Do today’s power brokers in Britain continue to be born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts?

In search of an answer, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman scrutinised the profiles, interests, and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. Their findings offer an insight into who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.

🔴 Check out the new book by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman on this research: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978…

The book will be launched at a public event at LSE on 3 October 2024: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/10/…

🔴 Professor Sam Friedman is a Professor of Sociology at LSE: https://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/peopl…

🔴 Professor Aaron Reeves is a Visiting Professor in the International Inequalities Institute at LSE: https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-I…

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The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Solving a Rubiks Cube in 0.3 Seconds

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Friendliness and compliments in the US #usa #american #americanculture #cultureshock #kindness

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Caput Mortuum

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Semantic Bleaching: how words become less awesome

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A Kaleidoscopic Animation Explores the Persuasive and Emotional Power of Color in Communication | Colossal

June 24, 2021
Animation Design
Grace Ebert

“Color is a challenge,” says designer and Pentagram partner Eddie Opara in a trippy and instructive animation that explains why certain shades resonate with our emotions and prompt us to act. Directed by Oddfellows as part of Adobe’s Creativity, Explained series, the educational segment explores facets of color theory and its subjective nature in relationContinue reading “A Kaleidoscopic Animation Explores the Persuasive and Emotional Power of Color in Communication” […]

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