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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:45) – Revolutions and governments
(24:23) – American Civil War
(33:35) – Lincoln and election of 1860
(37:25) – Slavery
(50:35) – Freedom of speech
(1:02:17) – Death toll of the Civil War
(1:05:36) – Ulysses S. Grant
(1:07:45) – Ku Klux Klan
(1:19:27) – Robert E. Lee
(1:27:11) – Abraham Lincoln
(1:42:18) – If the south won
(1:50:54) – Hypocrisy of the Founders
(1:56:56) – John Wilkes Booth
(2:00:11) – White supremacy
(2:05:34) – Disputed elections
(2:15:56) – Politics
(2:24:20) – Donald Trump and Joe Biden
(2:37:06) – January 6th
(3:02:04) – Hope for the future
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
#230 – Kelsi Sheren: War, Artillery, PTSD, and Love
#229 – Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution
#228 – RZA: Wu-Tang Clan, Kung Fu, Chess, God, Life, and Death
#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
#225 – Jeffrey Shainline: Neuromorphic Computing and Optoelectronic Intelligence
#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
#223 – Travis Stevens: Judo, Olympics, and Mental Toughness
#222 – Jay McClelland: Neural Networks and the Emergence of Cognition
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
#220 – Niels Jorgensen: New York Firefighters and the Heroes of 9/11
#219 – Donald Knuth: Programming, Algorithms, Hard Problems & the Game of Life
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
#213 – Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built
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