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55,000-year-old skull as an evidence of modern man in vicinity of Neanderthals

The discovery of a 55,000-year-old partial skull in Northern Israel provides new insights into the migration of modern humans out of Africa

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Global Architecture History

Professor Mark Jarzombek on what Buddhist temples express, transfer of architectural techniques, and the Eurocentric worldview

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Paleogenetics

Biologist Steven Benner on the questions answered by paleogenetics, how laboratory work in the field is conducted, and what paleogenetics has already taught us

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Scientific Work in Los Alamos Program

Nobel Prize laureate Roy Glauber on avoiding predetonation, the Trinity test, and the hydrogen bomb

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Terror by Quota

Historian Paul Gregory on Stalin's "limity", death sentences, and the academic research with great political importance

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Security and the Soviet Command Economy

University of Warwick Prof. Mark Harrison on military-industrial complex, Stalin's Great Breakthrough, and paperwork in KGB

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The History and Social Study of Science

MIT Prof. Loren Graham on biomedical ethics, challenges of becoming an academic discipline, and the impact of technology on society

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Native American Architecture

MIT Prof. Mark Jarzombek on love to turquoise in Mayan culture, mobile architecture of Plains Indians, and getting away from the old view on ancient nations

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Importance of Nomads in Eurasian History

Historian Thomas Barfield on the Xiongnu empire, Genghis Khan, and the Mongolian tax policy

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Politics and Einstein Relativity Theory

Physicist David Kaiser on measuring time delay, problems of communications during war, and governments impact on fundamental science