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Dr Seb Falk Interview - "The Light Ages" - Science in the Middle Ages

History for Atheists

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The Historiographical Fallacy of Presentism

I ran the 2014 London marathon dressed as the Gherkin, which at the time was the most famous new skyscraper. I made it entirely out of papier-mâché with the help of my wife. And I was eight foot tall wearing it and I crashed into the gantry over the finish line when I got to the finish. But I did finish and I raised money for Parkinson's research doing it. You've been punting on the cam dressed as a gherkin. I still have the costume and I did once go punting in it but I haven't worn it for a few years. So you can offer your mind if you could be one of the

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