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"In this course, we will survey and analyze the dramatic and much-contested history of money, beginning with the ancient world and proceeding through the early modern period, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the present day, with a discussion of where money may be headed in the future." youtube.com/playlist?list=PLin @histodon @histodons @econhist @historyofeconomics

"Stephen Fry takes a look inside the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine was invented." youtu.be/uQ88yC35NjI @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

"J. R. R. Tolkien speaks to John Ezard about his extraordinarily popular Lord of the Rings series of fantasy novels. The author touches upon their genesis and themes, his fondness for invented languages - and how they are often misinterpreted." youtu.be/rre7zQGcldI @bookstodon

"...a team of researchers are taking nature's designs and engineering a new solution for planting crops, fertilising soil or replanting forests." youtu.be/MZC_hXx1_Yc @science @engineering

"Thanks to a complex mathematical algorithm, these plastic shapes follow a very specific route as they roll. In fact, researchers have shown that a shape can be designed to follow almost any path you can think of." youtu.be/2lW9HznqsVY @science

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