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Friday Nite Videos | June 18, 2021

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Election Officials Are Under Attack. Iko Iko | Playing for Change. The One and Only Dick Gregory | Documentary. New Study Shows the Single Biggest Motivation for the Jan. 6 Rioters. Why It Actually Might Be 'Survival of the Friendliest.'

Friday Nite Videos | May 28, 2021

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Prosecutor in Trump Case Convenes Grand Jury to Consider Indictments. Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Playing for Change. Dark Money Group Is Writing Voter Suppression Laws. When Earth Was a Planet of the Apes. Chile: Left and Independent Forces Win Big.

When Earth Was a Planet of the Apes

More than ten million years ago, the world was brimming with a wide variety of apes. New studies of ape fossils provide clues how humans evolved.

Friday Nite Videos | May 21, 2021

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Stand Your Ground | John Oliver. All Along the Watchtower: A Pandemic Ballad. The Real Reason Workers Aren’t Running Back to Restaurant Jobs. Palestinian Artist Taqi Spateen Painting George Floyd. The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Monster.

Neanderthals Carb Loaded, Helping Grow Their Big Brains

Ann Gibbons Science
Molecular anthropologist Christina Warinner, graduate student James Fellows Yates, and a large international team looked at the oral bacteria stuck to the teeth of Neanderthals and preagriculture modern humans that lived more than 10,000 years ago.

Cicadas Have an Existential Problem

Ed Yong The Atlantic
Cicadas, like us, have come to rely on an interconnected ecosystem of their own creation that becomes more unwieldy and fragile with time, and that they can barely control.
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