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Friday Nite Videos | September 9, 2022

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How Do We Explain This to Our Allies? | Justice Is Coming for Steve Bannon. Song Across America Blues | Playing for Change. Why Did Music Evolve? - 4 Hypotheses. The State of Tory Britain Under Liz Truss? Terrible. The Boys: Season 3.

Why Did Music Evolve? - 4 Hypotheses

Music is a human universal but its survival benefits are not obvious. So why did it evolve? I sat down with professor Ed Hagen to discuss 4 hypotheses on the origins of our grooviest trait.

Friday Nite Videos | August 19, 2022

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Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins. MAGA (a Parody of 'My Girl'). Why Tracking White Supremacy Is Crucial to Combating It. Why Are Baristas Leading the Labor Movement? U.S. 'Waited and Watched' as Cuba Fought Deadly Blaze

Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins

An evolutionary biochemist at University College London explores the mystery of how life evolved on Earth. His hypothesis illuminates the outsized role that energy may have played in shaping evolution.

We Created the ‘Pandemicene’

Ed Yong The Atlantic
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers.

Friday Nite Videos | April 22, 2022

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Chris Smalls: The Man Who Took on Amazon and Won. Gimme Shelter | Playing for Change Band. Michigan Lawmaker Says, ‘We Will Not Let Hate Win.’ Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen | Documentary. Astrophysicist Breaks Down the Origins of Life.

Astrophysicist Breaks Down the Origins of Life

An astrophysicist and a molecular and cell biology expert discuss what we know, what we don’t, and how we’re trying to find out more about how life arose on Earth and whether it might exist elsewhere.

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