The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur-epic inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices.  The Sumerian versions date back almost 5000 years. Scholar Kent H. Dixon explains what’s the Epic story of Gilgamesh, and how Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being … Continued


0:08 – Richard Walker is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. He’s written dozens of articles and books on a diverse range of economic, urban, and environmental geography. His latest book is Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and The Dark Side of … Continued