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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
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    History of Predicting Internet Future
    MIT Senior Research Scientist David Clark on contention in communication industry, alternative to the Internet, and visionaries' disappearance
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    Architecture of First Societies
    Historian Mark Jarzombek on the notion of seemingly primitive, worldwide evolution of the housing, and the fate of native populations in modern environment
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    American Physics in the Cold War
    Physicist David Kaiser on the US education funding course, the impact of politics on physics, and connections in rapidly growing community
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    Anthropology in Afghan Studies
    Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on the form of anarchism in Afghanistan, "the little brother complex" in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and long-term anthropology
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    Construction of the Soviet Cosmonaut
    MIT Lecturer Vyacheslav Gerovitch on Sergei Korolev’s design bureau, the leadership of the Soviet cosmonauts, and thinking outside the box in space
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