New Ways of Understanding Nature

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Claims that culturalization erodes childhood curiosity and calls for interspecies solidarity defined as social, political and civic commitments; museums run citizen‑science programs that produce observational data used in national CBD reporting and repatriate human remains as part of decolonial practice (citizen science used for national CBD reporting). A tech program builds machine‑learning models to parse animal vocalizations (processing 10,000 hours of recordings to detect calls), reports findings like elephants have names, and tests hypotheses such as plant distress signals around 70 kHz.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:35How we lost our connection to nature
3. 3:15The Natural History Museum
4. 5:16What is a Museum
5. 6:44Citizen Science
6. 8:25Importance of understanding nature
7. 10:08How do animals talk
8. 11:15Elephants
9. 12:24Distress Signals
10. 13:38Solidarity
11. 14:43Three Ways of Solidarity
12. 15:32Civic Solidarity
13. 16:32Indigenous Cultures
14. 22:56Window of Opportunity
15. 25:02Closing Remarks