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To examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our implicit desire to understand our lives and our place in the world, you will go on a globe-spanning, time-travelling, media-traversing tour in the 12 lectures of Storytelling and the Human Condition. Your guide is award-winning journalist, author, and storyteller Alexandra Hudson, founder of Civic Renaissance, a community of lifelong learners, which she invites you to join at Civic-Renaissance.com. In this course, she will illuminate the many ways stories shape our lives throughout history and across cultures.

Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to...

Join your hosts, Halli, Cayla and Nathan as they delve into the always surprising, often creepy, frequently hilarious world of the weirdest things in the human experience. Was Shakespeare a woman? Did you know that there was a secret room in Mount Rushmore? What actually happened to Brittany Murphy? (it's really not as straight forward as you would think) Covering a wide array of topics from conspiracy theories, urban legends, weird science and unsolved mysteries. Grab your tinfoil hat, your favorite drink and get ready to experience the Human Exceptionhttps://www.thehumanexception.com/

Welcome to Be Good Humans, the humourous and often heartwarming and entertaining weekly podcast where Radio Hall of Fame member and comedian Brian Phelps teams up with award-winning television showrunner and professor Trey Callaway. Each 30-45 minute episode brings you a delightful mix of comedy, engaging conversation, and inspiring interviews with truly GOOD HUMANS from all over the world.Join Brian and Trey as they share uplifting stories, like the North Carolina bait and tackle shop owners who united their hurricane-struck community with karaoke nights, or the Canadian woman who turned her ...

An irresistible and enchanting journey through human history—from mankind’s earliest fires to the latest smart phones—that tells the surprising and untold story of storytelling. Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never...

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The show where host Doni takes on the world's most powerful institutions. Hint: they've been lying to us. Drinking From Human Skulls puts the news media, corporations, and politicians under a microscope. Spoiler alert - it gets ugly. Culture, and politics, and disinformation - oh my! Nobody is safe: the mainstream media, big business, right-wing loonies, and left-wing sillies. Join Doni as he reveals the truth behind the world's most troubling issues. Note: In the event that facts no longer matter, please contact the host so he may properly align with our new overlords. Until then - no ...