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Athenian Inversions
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes how his generation of classical Greek historians took a different approach to Athens of the 4th century BCE.
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Appreciating Historical Variability
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) relates how a core value of intellectual history is that it naturally forces us to relativize contemporary positions that we might naively conclude are absolute.
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Uncovering Meaning
Historian David Armitage, University of Harvard, relates how examining the historical evolution of key terms and phrases can uncover the many sedimented meanings associated with them, thereby pointing the way to deeper historical...
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The Creative Process
Jennifer Michael Hecht describes how her “three different hats” of a poet, historian and popular writer combine to give her different windows on the metaphysical and the psychological.
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Putting the Pieces Together
University of Michigan classical scholar Richard Janko links Aristophanes, Socrates and a controversial poet Diagoras of Melos as he attempts to solve the mystery of who wrote The Derveni Papyrus, the oldest surviving European manuscript.
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Increasing Scientific Understanding
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin gives various examples of how historians of science might help improve current scientific practices.
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History in Its Own Terms
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), describes his approach to historical scholarship.
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Reversing Assumptions
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) relates a formative insight that she received as a student from the eminent Byzantist Alexander Kazhdan about how to properly look at what makes a "great civilization."
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Enumerating Possibilities
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) uses the example of international intervention to show how history can help us guide today's decisions.
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Enlarging The Conversation
Historian David Cannadine, University of Princeton, describes how he believes the time is ripe for historians to increasingly interact with geneticists and neuroscientists in an attempt to better address the fundamental question of what...
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A Historian's Toolbox
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay describes how he is constantly looking to demonstrate how our contemporary views are far less black and white than many suppose, and how focusing on the evolution of language helps puts things into their...
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Measuring Memories
UC Irvine memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus describes a collaboration she was involved in on neuroimaging studies that demonstrated the strong similarity between neural activity when recounting true and false memories.
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Can Language Models Lie? | WebGPT, DeepMind Retro, and The Challenge of Fact-Checking in LLMs
Can Language Models Lie? It's complicated, but we're teaching them to do better.
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Trigonometric Identities
This video will discuss fundamental trigonometric identities.
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Article One: Structure of Powers of Legislative Branch
Article One: Structure of Powers of Legislative Branch explains the responsibilities of the legislative branch by analyzing Article I of the Constitution.
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Living Cells and Viruses
Living Cells and Viruses compares and contrasts living organisms and viruses by identifying similarities and unique characteristics of each.
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Musical Syntax
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti describes his research of considering structural relations between language, motor function and music in the hopes of revealing insights in the underlying processing of our brains.
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Making a Difference
Solar physicist Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, describes the importance of combining scientific research with real-world impact as we grapple with the pressing challenges of improving our environment.
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Galileo's Gift
Nobel Laureate David Politzer describes Galileo’s vital lesson of obtaining knowledge by working with related similar but knowingly inappropriate models that can point towards a deeper understanding.
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Guarding Your Turf
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin uses the example of Immanuel Velikovsky to describe how those on the fringe of academic disciplines have to be even more vigilant than others about ensuring that they keep out people they...
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Evaluating Psychotherapy
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes how, despite a lack of rigorous studies demonstrating the impact of psychoanalysis, for many people - including herself - psychoanalysis played a very significant positive role in their...
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A Limited View
Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck describes the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset and describes how her primary school years were shaped by a rigorously fixed-mindset teacher who lined all students up by IQ ranking.
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The Future of Psychology
Psychologist Carol Dweck (Stanford) gives her enthusiastic take on the future of psychology.