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A Great Day for the Welsh Language
Owen Williams discusses the folklore origins of ‘Yr Wyddfa’, the Welsh name for the no longer accepted ‘Snowdon’. Art & Animation: @grindletoons Audio: Owen Williams twitter.com/@OwsWills Taken from BBC Radio 2 – Jeremy Vine, November 17th 2022
In the 3,700-year footsteps of a king, a barber and a slave | Aeon Essays
Tablet from Gimil-Ninkarrak’s archive for the hire of a labourer, describing Gimil-Ninkarrak as the ‘chief barber’. Courtesy the Louvre Museum, Paris Some 3,700 years ago, an enslaved girl, a barber, and a king crossed paths in a city by the … Continue reading
China‘s BIGGEST traditional communal home for more than 600 people – Fujian Hakka Tulou | EP8, S2
I’ve made my trip to China’s biggest traditional communal home – Fujian Tulou！ Tulou is the family home of Mulan people, and also the traditional home of Hakka people, housing up to 800 people! Luckily, I have met a very … Continue reading
Did Pirates Really Sing Sea Shanties? It’s Complicated
Songs like “A Pirate’s Life for Me” and “Dead Man’s Chest” are as prevalent in pirate lore as eye patches or treasure maps. But these tunes were written more than a hundred years AFTER the Golden Age of Piracy. In … Continue reading
History of the British Empire (in One Take)
Welcome to the British Empire. This video takes an epic tour through centuries of change, resistance and violence, meeting key figures who played important roles in this turbulent era. […]
What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant?
What Was Life Really Like For A Medieval Peasant? Watch the full episode of ‘Going Medieval: Those Who Work’ on History Hit TV: https://access.historyhit.com/going-m… In the Medieval period, peasants made up roughly 80% of the European population. But what was … Continue reading
When Elephants Got Weird
This extinct elephant relative had the entire garden shed on its face. This is the Platybelodon. [..]
Do We Really Live Under Capitalism?
ne of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is “we don’t have real capitalism, we have corporatism” or “crony capitalism” or even “techno-feudalism.” These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point. Let’s talk about capitalism, corporatism, … Continue reading
How Rutherford Found the Age of the Earth with Alexis Dahl : A Bit of Historical Context
Alexis Dahl is a science communicator on a quest to understand and marvel at the world outside her door. Kathy will delve into the intersection of geology, theology, physics, and radioactivity in this fascinating story of how we learned how … Continue reading
Quaternions are Amazing and so is William Rowan Hamilton!
Quaternions are amazing, they made modern vector mathematics. But how were they created and how do they work? In order to explain all that I am providing both a fun biography of Hamilton AND a biography of quaternions and the … Continue reading
A Guide to Propaganda
I first interacted with Edward Bernays through Noam Chomsky’s many works on manufacturing consent. Written in 1928, Edward Bernays’ seminal work Propaganda explains his craft of influencing and manipulating public opinion. Whether it’s influencing the masses on whether they should … Continue reading
What is the Black population in Brazil?
From samba to music and religion, African culture is everywhere in Brazil. The cultural heritage stems from the estimated millions of people who were brought to the country over a 300-year period, at least four times as many as to … Continue reading
