Another 50th episode, another lavish musical.

Today, we've got a musical journey through the history of humanity.

Our journey will take us through broken beliefs that were widely held during each period,

all the way through the present, and each represented by a popular song from that day.

We'll get started on the African savannah, tens of thousands of years ago.

That's coming up next UnSkeptoid.

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The History of Knowledge

Today we're going to take a look at how knowledge of our world has evolved throughout human history.

In every culture and every century, people have strived to better understand the universe.

Often this has resulted in great leaps forward, especially since the development of the scientific method.

Just as often, it's taken us on to tangents driven more by superstition than by study.

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