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Ancient Crimes, Modern Minds is a true crime and history podcast exploring the darkest crimes of the ancient world through the lens of modern psychology.Long before profiling, forensics, and criminal psychology, there were killers, poisoners, conspirators, and tyrants whose motives are still painfully familiar. Ambition. Jealousy. Revenge. Fear. Power.Each episode dives into a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and acts of betrayal from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, China, and beyond. Then...

Unlock timeless wisdom with Ancient Code, Modern Mind! Using AI, we decode ancient texts and the brilliance of thinkers like Aryabhata to uncover insights that shaped our world. Explore how these “codes” continue to inspire and transform our understanding of the universe. Join me on a journey bridging past, present, and future, revealing answers to life’s biggest questions hidden in history. Tune in for enduring knowledge that empowers modern minds!

Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept - the mind - emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither.

World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were irrevocably changed, including many writers and artists upon whose oeuvre it left an indelible mark. This captivating series examines the impact of the war on artists and thinkers through the prism of their great works. In each episode, a leading figure from the worlds of science, culture and the arts reflects on a single iconic piece, and discusses how the events of 1914-18 shaped its creation.

Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality - these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed - far more so than most historians have been willing to recognize.