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My talk tonight is about ""uncontacted peoples"": tribes that maintain minimal or no contact at all with the rest of the world. Situations vary: in Amazonia, uncontacted peoples generally retreated to remote parts of the rainforest as a survival strategy, and we will see an example with the Nomole (also called Mashco Piro) from Peru. In other cases like the Shompen of Great Nicobar Island or the Yaifo from New Guinea, contact was established late in the 19th or 20th Century and these peoples decided to stay separated.
I will also tell you about Anthropology as a discipline: what does it actually study and what are the differences with Sociology? What is the history of this field? And finally I will tell you about exoticism, the myth of the noble savage, the definitions of culture and the difficulty to look past our own.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Uncontacted Peoples
2:25 Humanity in Amazonia
17:56 Nomole (Amazonia)
24:14 Shompen (Great Nicobar Island)
39:45 Anthropology, Noble Savage and Cultural Hierarchy
52:21 Yaifo (New Guinea)
1:00:00 What is Culture and Can We See Through It?

Here are four more stories of lost cities from the past, that will take us around the world and from Antiquity to our days:
- Dunwich (UK) was a thriving medieval city that grew during the Anglo-Saxon period on the North Sea coast, and peaked in the 14th century. But centuries of coastal erosion led to the disappearance of most of its buildings and houses.
- Heracleion was Egypt's most active port during the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. However, rising waters and soil liquefaction condemned it and its ruins remained forgotten and undisturbed for centuries, several miles off the coast and under 19 feet of water, until its recent rediscovery.
- Ciudad Perdida (Colombia) was a spectacular city built in the mountains of Colombia by the Tairona, with dozens of terraces connected by staircases and pathways.
- Nan Madol (Micronesia) was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty in Pohnpei. Sometimes called the ""Venice of the Pacific"", it consisted of more than 90 artificial islets and megalithic architecture.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Dunwich
21:41 Heracleion
43:22 Ciudad Perdida
52:44 Nan Madol

Forbidden Islands are places where visitors are strictly banned, for a variety of reasons. In tonight's episode, I tell you about four different examples:- North Sentinel, where one of the last uncontacted people in the world (the Sentinelese) keeps living in the neolithic;- Poveglia, an island that previously served as a lazaret (a quarantine site) in the Lagoon of Venice;- Surtsey, a volcanic island that appeared in the 1960's and has been closely watched by scientists since then;- Queimada Grande, a.k.a. "Snake Island", home to an endemic species of vipers.Timestamps:0:00 Forbidden Islands1:56 North Sentinel, India25:17 Poveglia, Italy41:40 Surtsey, Iceland53:59 Queimada Grande (Snake Island), Brazil

Where does money come from, and what is it, exactly? Depending on how we look at it, it is at the same time a means of exchange, an unit of account, a language (the language of economic value), or a synonym for wealth. The term is also loaded with aspirations and emotions: having enough or a lot of money is connected to freedom, security, status, power, or peace of mind. We will explore these various layers tonight, as we travel along the centuries since Prehistory and the first monetary tokens, to Antiquity and the beginnings of coinage, and finally to modern times with paper money, dematerialized money and fiat currencies.Timestamps:0:00 What is Money?3:38 From Gift & Debt Economies to Tokens16:39 Introduction of Coins26:21 Money as Symbol and Metaphor32:35 Late Antiquity and Middle Ages50:31 Religious Bans56:50 Toward Modern Banking Systems Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.

Let's explore scientific topics tonight, with this compilation of four episodes:- part 1 is about the shapes and patterns in nature. Why do certain shapes come back, rather than others, what are these favoured shapes, and what is the golden ratio?- part 2 is a presentation about bees: species, anatomy and social life.- part 3 deals with the decay of structures and artifacts built by civilizations, and what traces they could live behind; this is at the heart of the Silurian Hypothesis.- part 4 tells you all about cats: their evolutionary history, their species, and what distinguishes them from other mammals.Timestamps:0:00 Shapes of Nature1:08:58 Bees2:04:39 Silurian Hypothesis3:15:52 Cats Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.comfor information about our collection and use of personal data foradvertising.