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Thoughts on AI, predictive text, technological metaphors, and the string of thought.
🧐Fiddling With the Truth
Dive into the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD. Discover the truth behind the enduring myth of Emperor Nero fiddling as his city burned.
🔍The Hunt for Hieroglyphs
Join the hunt for hieroglyphs! Discover how a stone found by French soldiers in 1799 became the key to unlocking ancient Egypt's secrets.
🔬A Massive New Grant Will Explore the Health Effects of Religion and Spirituality
For 30 Years This Gold-Standard Study Has Generated Insights on Human Health
🏳Two Fathers, One Fight
Two fathers challenge norms and win adoption rights for gay couples, celebrating their love with a groundbreaking Father’s Day wedding in 1998.
🏛️Watergate from the Inside
Step inside the Watergate break-in. Explore why Nixon's team thought they could succeed in this HISTORY podcast episode on the infamous scandal.
🧙Witches Among Us
Witness the grim 1692 execution of Bridget Bishop in Salem. Discover the chilling history behind the witch trials via the linked, fact-checked podcast.
🌍How Five Leaders Are Pursuing Business for the Greater Good
An Inspiring Glimpse into the Heart of Conscious Capitalism
🏚️The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street
The history of Tulsa's thriving Black Wall Street and the devastating 1921 race massacre that violently destroyed this community.
Sojourner's Truth
In 1851 Akron, Sojourner Truth delivers a powerful speech at the Women's Rights Convention, demanding true inclusion for *all* women.
🔍Not My Fingerprint
A single fingerprint nearly convicts an innocent man. HISTORY This Week revisits Brandon Mayfield's wrongful arrest for the Madrid train bombings.
🚂The Chinese Immigrants Who Built America
The heroes of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
🥀Mother's Day Mayhem
Discover the surprising story of Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis. See how her promise to honor her mother sparked a lifelong battle against the holiday itself.
✊Fighting for 504
Uncover the longest non-violent occupation of a US federal building, where disability activists demanded enforcement of Section 504 civil rights in 1977.
💵Killing the Gold Standard
It's 1933. FDR gathers advisors late at night. He's about to announce a plan that kills the gold standard and alters US economic history.
🔭How Scientists Showed Us the Unseeable
Pulling Back the Curtain on a Black Hole Breakthrough
⚖️Surrogacy on the Stand
Dive into the landmark 1986 Baby M surrogacy case. A mother's change of heart challenges a contract and ignites a complex legal battle.
⏳An Islamic classical thinker with a message for kids of today
Discover how the Ghazali Children's Project uses hands-on lessons, like spilling sand, to teach profound spiritual and ethical concepts to children.
🤔One Million Years Ago, How Did Humans Think?
Fossil digs and fMRIs offer new insights into the ways early humans lived and thought, more than a million years ago.
🌍$2.9 Million to Globalize the Philosophy of Religion
Amplifying new voices and uncovering important scholarship beyond the Christian and Anglophone worlds
🌱Tackling Philadelphia’s Poverty by Aiding Entrepreneurs of Color
New program to connect dozens of new businesses with capital and resources while building best practices for further growth
✊🏿Sitting In for Civil Rights
Explore the Greensboro sit-ins where four brave freshmen challenged segregation at Woolworth's. Hear the story via the HISTORY podcast I fact-checked.
🔗Writers and Intellectuals Under Threat
A New Toolkit for Activists Fighting to Document Repression and Protect Free Expression
🏆Best Stories of 2020
Explore the top HISTORY This Week podcast stories from 2020. Producers and researchers reveal favorite episodes and behind-the-scenes info.
🀄Cross-Training to Understand Confucian Culture
A multidisciplinary investigation of ‘How China Became Chinese.’
🌟Hope and Optimism - The White Paper
A new report explores the benefits of two related virtues.
⚖️Stealing the Presidency
Chaos in the 1876 election! A candidate concedes defeat, but overnight maneuvers snatch the presidency from the apparent winner.
🌐How to Develop a Belief Network
Studying the development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior.
☣️Anthrax Attacks
Explore the unsettling 2001 Anthrax attacks. A seemingly innocent letter unleashes terror in the U.S. Senate, igniting fear across the nation.
📊Religion Data, Remixed
Retooling a Key Resource for Research on Religion
🏆Harmony in Hard Times
Relive the unique 2020 Templeton Prize ceremony, where an almost empty auditorium hosted a global audience celebrating the 50th laureate.
📜No Representation, No Peace
Explore the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, where colonial delegates first unite against British taxes – a crucial early step toward independence.
🎓Promoting Intellectual Humility in Classrooms
A new project will help gauge how students feel realizing the limits of their understanding — and ways they can positively respond
🔍The Honesty Project
A new three-year project to investigate the science and philosophy of an understudied virtue.
🔬Expanding Views of Cancer's Causes
A blood test for early-stage cancer holds promise for treating the many cancers caused by the accumulated “bad luck” of multicellular living
🎧The Birth of Hip Hop
Travel back to a legendary Bronx party on August 11, 1973, where DJ Kool Herc's innovative performance ignites the birth of hip hop culture.
📜Convert or Leave
Go behind the scenes fact-checking The History Channel's 'Convert or Leave' podcast and explore the stark historical choices faced by communities.
🕊️Act Like a Holy Man
A new film will celebrate the lives, friendship and insights of two of our time’s most revered spiritual leaders - Desmond Tutu and the 14th Dalai Lama
🕌Advancing the Study of Theology for Emerging Muslim Leaders
Scholars Are Building a New Academic Program Encompassing Advanced Islamic Theology and Contemporary Thought
🗳️Freedom Summer, 1964
Freedom Summer, 1964, a pivotal turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. Get insights from fact-checking a History Channel podcast episode.
🎗️The Everything Happens Project
Fostering new and needed conversations about tragedy, hope, and beauty
🔍collaborative-inquiries-in-christian-theological-anthropology
A new project will foster interdisciplinary work — informed by both science and theology — on what it means to be human
🏴Captain Kidd and the Nazis
Was Captain Kidd truly a pirate? Unravel his controversial execution and discover an unexpected connection involving the Nazis.
🎓Building Virtues through College Admissions
Explore how Harvard's initiative reshapes college admissions by prioritizing ethical character and creating tailored tools for assessing student virtues.
🧠Unfolding Quantum Intuition
Citizen scientists are using gameplay to help scientists understand more about what makes us uniquely human.
🎓Five Questions with Jason Marsh
Jason Marsh of GGSC explores emotional well-being strategies during COVID-19 in a lively Q&A session. Discover how virtues can navigate personal and collective crises.
🚽Who Invented the Flush Toilet?
Explore the flush toilet's journey from ancient sanitation innovation to modern necessity, tracing its evolution through history and technology.
🏡Character, Virtue, Quarantine
Explore how virtues like gratitude and cooperation shape our resilience in the face of pandemic disruptions, guided by new research from the John Templeton Foundation.
🧠Mental Healthcare, Virtue, and Human Flourishing
Gratitude, humility, forgiveness, and other positive qualities may have a lot to offer in both psychological research and clinical practice.
🌌Space and Time After Quantum Gravity
String theory, quantum loop gravity, and the philosophy of describing the indescribable
🌍Accurately Measuring Religious Belief and Attitudes Around the World
Want to find out the prevalence of atheism? Maybe don’t ask.