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Friday Nite Videos | April 8, 2022

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What We Found When We Went Looking for Another Earth. Vieux Farka Toure w Julia Easterlin "Masters Of War." Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Her Historic Supreme Court Confirmation. The Wobblies | Movie. Pink Floyd - Hey Hey Rise Up.

Friday Nite Videos | January 28, 2022

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How Does Income Affect Childhood Brain Development? We Need To Talk About Cosby | W. Kamau Bell. Astronomer Explains "Don't Look Up." Now on SportsCenter: Everyone Is Dead. The Facility : The Lives of Detained Immigrants.

How Physics Erases the Beginning of the Universe

Ethan Siegel Forbes
It’s one of the most remarkable achievements of science of all: that we can go back billions of years in time and understand when and how our Universe, as we know it, came to be this way.

How Old Is the Universe, Really?

Matthew Francis The Week
Two ways to measure the age of the universe give different answers. The discrepancy is large enough that some cosmologists — scientists studying the history and makeup of the universe as a whole — are suggesting the field is in crisis.
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