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Plato's Greater, Better World in The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates is a modern-day title for the collection of four Socratic dialogues by the Greek philosopher Plato – the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo – telling the story of the trial, imprisonment, and death of Socrates...
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How a Few Scientists Transformed the Way We Think about Disease - Tien Nguyen
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-few-scientists-transformed-the-way-we-think-about-disease-tien-nguyen This video was created with support from the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: http://ori.hhs.gov. For several...
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Louis Pasteur
Restored studio portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), photographed by Paul Nadar.
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Robert Koch
Portrait of Robert Koch (1843-1910), published in 1907 in Les Prix Nobel.
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Cholera Bacterium
Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. This is the bacterium that causes cholera.
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One of History's Most Dangerous Myths - Anneliese Mehnert
Examine the empty land theory, which was created by European colonizers in South Africa to support their claims to the region. From the 1650s through the late 1800s, European colonists descended on South Africa. They sought to claim the...
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How We Discovered Germs
Humanity didn't always know about the invisible viruses, bacteria, and microbes that can cause disease. But that doesn't mean we didn't come up with some truly bizarre ideas. From the four humors and miasma theory to bloodletting and trepanation...
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Greek Philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy is a system of thought, first developed in the 6th century BCE, which was informed by a focus on the First Cause of observable phenomena. Prior to the development of this system by Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE...
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Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (also known as Tutankhamen and `King Tut', r. c.1336-c.1327 BCE) is the most famous and instantly recognizable Pharaoh in the modern world. His golden sarcophagus is now a symbol almost synonymous with Egypt. His name means `living...
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Aristotle
Aristotle of Stagira (l. 384-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher who pioneered systematic, scientific examination in literally every area of human knowledge and was known, in his time, as "the man who knew everything" and later simply as "The...