Are Animals Religious?
Are humans the only religious species? New research on chimpanzees, elephants, and other animals challenges our assumptions about awe, grief, ritual, and the emotional roots of religion.
What Fantasy Gets Wrong About Sacred Groves
Fantasy loves sacred groves as untouched relics of a lost world. This video shows what scholars actually find on the ground, and why sacred groves thrive not through isolation, but…
How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit
One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been the evolution of a world absolutely teeming…
The Origins of Arabic
In this video, we explore the history and development of the Arabic language, as well as its connection to religion.
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When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
Ancient weeds began mimicking early crops again and again over the course of the agricultural revolution, as ancient farmers made similar mistakes in different places at different times.And it turns…
How Navajo Weavers Keep an Ancient Art Alive
This short film follows two Navajo weavers whose work preserves memory, identity, and ancestral knowledge. Through traditional techniques and contemporary expression, their art becomes a living story of resilience. Weaving…
The English words nobody can explain
Some of the most ordinary words in English have origins that no one can explain. Among them: "dog", "big", "bird", "donkey", "boy", "girl" and "puzzle".
What the Tudors REALLY ate
In this episode of her series on Tudor Life, Ruth Goodman explains how no two weeks of the Tudor diet were ever the same. Each food source had its own…
The entire history of English in 22 minutes
In this video you'll learn about where English came from, what impact the Vikings had on our language, what the Normans did to English, why Middle English is so weird,…