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Episode 349 — "Navigating Questions of Knowledge With Ships And Heaps"

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2. Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18
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2. Episode Ninety - Recap Of Atomism In Preparation for Details of Magnetism 17
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2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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2. Episode Eight-Seven - Earthquakes And The Water Cycle - The Reason The Seas Never Fill Up Over Time 5
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2. Episode Eighty-Six - Typhoons and Whirlwinds 6
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2. Episode Thirty-Eight: Start of Book Three - Epicurus Our Guide Who Dispels The Darkness of Error and Fear of Hell 6
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2. Episode Eighty-Five - Thunder and Lightning Part Three - Why Do The Gods Send Thunderbolts Onto Their Own Temples? 6
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2. Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7
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2. Episode Eighty-Three - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning Part One 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5
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2. Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10
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2. Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23
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2. Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5
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2. Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5
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2. Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4
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2. Episode Twelve - Nothing But Combinations Of Matter And Void 7
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2. Episode One - Venus / Pleasure As Guide of Life 15
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2. Episode Seven - The Evidence That Nothing Comes From Nothing 7
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2. Episode Eight - Step Two: Nothing Goes To Nothing 5
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2. Episode Four - Recap of Opening Sections of Book One 12
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2. Episode Eighty - The Development of Metallurgy And the Art of War 3
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2. Episode Seventy-Nine - The Cause of the Arising of Belief In Gods 1
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2. Episode Seventy-Eight - Ethical Issues Arising In The Formation of Societies 2
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2. Episode Seventy-Seven - Formation of Language and Early Societies 1
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2. Episode Seventy-Six - The Rise of Humans and Early Human Society 5
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2. Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1
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2. Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1
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2. Episode Seventy-Three - More on The Sun, The Moon, And Related Astronomical Questions 5
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2. Episode Seventy-Two - Alternative Explanations in Science, and The Size of The Sun 7
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2. Episode Seventy-One - The Formation Of the World (Our Part of the Universe) 20
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Episode 244 - Cicero's OTNOTG 19 - Zeno's Paradoxes - Profundity Or Gaslighting? 18

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Episode Eight-Four - Meteorology: Thunder and Lightning - Very Very Frightning Part Two 7

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Episode Eighty-Two - The Opening Of Book Six - Restatement of the Goal of the Poem 5

Popularizing The Lucretius Today Podcast 10

Episode Eighty-One - Development of the Arts - The End of Book Five 23

Episode Ten - The Void And Its Nature 5

Episode Twenty-One - The Universe Has No Center 5

Episode Nineteen - All Things Are Not Made of Tiny Pieces of The Same Thing, Or Of All Things (Anaxagorus' Homoeomery) 4

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Episode Seventy-Five - The Rise of Life On Earth, And Which Forms Were Possible And Impossible 1

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