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Friday Nite Videos -- Feb 24, 2014

Michael Sam and the NFL. Language and Human Nature. Moral March on Raleigh. Are We Descended from Martians? Pete Seeger Speaks.

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Celebrating Our Differences
 
Texas sports commentator Dale Hansen talks about the NFL's world, Michael Sam's, and ours.
 
 

 


 

Language as a Window into Human Nature
 
Renowned experimental psychologist Steven Pinker shows how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings
 
 

 


 

The Moral March on Raleigh
 
Tens of thousands of people attended the Feb. 8, 2014 Moral March on Raleigh. Melissa Harris-Perry reports on the spread of Moral Monday's to other states.
 
 

 


 

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Are We Descended From Martians?
 
Is there life elsewhere in the universe? In our solar system? Neil DeGrasse Tyson makes a series of striking, amusing, compelling arguments.
 
 

 

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Pete Seeger: In His Own Words
 
Legendary folksinger Pete Seeger spoke at the National Press Club in 1998 on song, politics, environment, civil rights ... and why there is hope.