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kjhughestoday at 4:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA


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throw0101ctoday at 5:24 PM

Also Tim O'Neill of the History for Atheists weblog/channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI

* https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palm...

Other interesting interviews: the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth with Bart Ehrman and also Thomas Schmidt (using Josephus' Testimonium), the date of Christmas with Philipp Nothaft, 'pagan origins' of Easter with Andrew Henry (Religion for Breakfast channel), Tom Holland. Good weblog posts too.

Also on the Toldinstone channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws87TCojyc

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