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Friday Nite Videos | September 16, 2022

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Jan. 6 Committee Previews Oath Keeper Evidence. Ron DeSantis' Migrant Stunt | Trevor Noah. How Waves Could Power a Clean Energy Future. Breaking the Vote Series Trailer. How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna.

How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?

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.

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A Great Awakening

Molly Worthen The New York Times
This decade-old book is especially relevant now.
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