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The Big Think Interview
The real lesson from the first time globalization died
Archaeologist Eric Cline has spent his career forensically reconstructing why the Bronze Age collapsed, and the answer is far stranger and more unsettling than a single catastrophic event.
Eric Cline
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The Big Think Interview
The collapse that accidentally built the modern world
Historian Eric Cline illuminates the 400-year period following ancient collapse that shaped the modern world.
Eric Cline
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12mins
Explain It Like I’m Smart
Why haven’t we found aliens? A physicist shares the most popular theories
There are a few theories as to why we’ve never found other intelligent life in our Universe. Physicist Brian Cox walks us through them.
Brian Cox
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