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'Others' List
  1. Howtown: The real danger of alcohol
  2. Veritasium: What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
  3. Veritasium: The Man Who Took LSD and Changed The World
  4. Veritasium: The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math - Do odd perfect numbers exist?
  5. Google DeepMind: Consciousness, Reasoning and the Philosophy of AI with Murray Shanahan
  6. Yuval Noah Harari: Yuval Noah Harari - Our AI Future Is WAY WORSE Than You Think
  7. LBC: ‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will take over the world
  8. The 60 Minutes Interview: "Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton
  9. Ben Maton - The Salisbury Organist: The GREATEST ORGAN PIECE EVER WRITTEN...is far WEIRDER than you think

Summaries and Comments
  1. Unfortunately, I’ve started this Note with a huge backlog, and I may never catch up! Also, I can’t now remember much of some of these episodes.
  2. BBC: Ancient Apocalypse - Death on the Nile (BBC2: Thu 26 Jul 2001)
    • BBC Blurb. Professor Fekri Hassan attempts to determine why the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the civilisation of the great pyramids, collapsed around 2200 BC. Can science show that terrible forces of nature were to blame - even driving people to cannibalism? Clues come from the remote deserts of southern Egypt, the glaciers of Iceland and a dramatic and unique archaeological find in the Nile delta.
    • Notes: I found the idea of a climate catastrophe – given Egypt’s dependence on the Nile – to be persuasive, but would have liked to know what the cause of the said catastrophe was.
  3. … to be continued


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