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Thoughts on AI, predictive text, technological metaphors, and the string of thought.
🤔Thanksgiving Reconsidered
Reconsider Thanksgiving's history by exploring the Wampanoag story and a crucial 1970 protest challenging the traditional narrative.
🎈Defying Gravity and Monarchy
Defy gravity in 1783 Paris! Relive the tension and triumph of the first human hot air balloon flight, featured on The History Channel's podcast.
🌀What Does a 1,800-year-old Buddhist Classic Have to Say about Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality?
A renowned physicist discusses the philosophy of emptiness with the Dalai Lama’s doctor
💣Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Unravel the mystery of the anonymous tip that foiled the Gunpowder Plot. Revisit the tense search beneath Parliament on November 4th, 1605.
📉Social Hostility Towards Religion Declined in 2019, According to Recent Research
A Decline in Terrorism Led the Reduction, while Government Hostility Remained Steady
🌍The Sky is Falling
Learn about the day Mario Molina won the Nobel Prize for proving the sky *was* falling, detailed in a fact-checked History Channel podcast episode.
🔬Is One of Biology’s Perennial Themes Ready For a Fresh Look? Alan Love on the Science of Purpose.
University of Minnesota philosopher Alan Love studies the interplay between philosophy and biology.
🌌Paul Davies on ‘What’s Eating the Universe?’
Paul Davies explores the universe's deepest mysteries, from the origins of the cosmos to the possibility of time travel, in his latest thought-provoking book.
🔭Early-Career Astrophysicists and Social Scientists Will Have a Front-Row Seat for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Groundbreaking Night Sky Survey
Early-career scientists gain unprecedented access to the stars with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s groundbreaking sky survey.
🙏The Strangest Gathering of Men
Explore the 1893 Parliament of World Religions where a Hindu monk holds a Chicago audience spellbound. A truly strange, historic gathering.
🕰️Quantum biology and the arrow of time
Jellyfish and migratory birds may help physicists understand the mysterious shift from quantum to classical mechanics
🐻The True Winnie-the-Pooh
Discover the true WWI story behind Winnie-the-Pooh! Learn how a real Canadian bear cub named Winnie inspired A.A. Milne's beloved character.
🧩India’s Patchwork Pluralism
A groundbreaking nationwide survey explores what Indians believe about their own and their fellow citizens’ religious faiths
🧐The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
The story begins with a discarded doorknob...
🏴Pop Music Pirates
Pirate ships blast pop music across 1960s England from the high seas. Explore this rebellious radio history chapter, featured by The History Channel.
🌳The Road Less Traveled
Journey back to August 1915 as Robert Frost publishes "The Road Not Taken," forever changing American poetry with its famous diverging roads.
🥇Jesse Owens Takes Germany
Jesse Owens challenges Hitler's Nazi regime at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, running into history and defying racial hatred on the world stage.
🧐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.