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Academic Earth A new course, the Stanford Summer Science Seminar explores a broad range of topics from Earthquakes to Global Warming and Heart Surgery and Prescription Drugs.
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Free video course on Summer Science Seminar by Robert Robbins of Stanford. The Stanford Summer Science Lecture Series is a series of outdoor science and engineering lectures offered on campus four or five evenings throughout the summer by some of Stanford's most distinguished professors.
Academic Earth From the newly uploaded Stanford course on The Future of Human Health, Prof. Shenoy discusses technology that allows the brain to control objects.
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Stanford Professor Krishna Shenoy lecture on Brain-Computer Interfaces from the course The Future of Human Health. Krishna Shenoy is creating "brain-computer interfaces" that will enable paralyzed patients to control prosthetic arms and computer cursors. ...
Academic Earth From the New Course - Presidential Politic: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Elections, Prof. Foster examines the role of the Media and and its impact on how we view the candidates.
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Stanford Professor Douglas Foster lecture on Representations in the Media - the Media and the Message from the course Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election. Lecture ...
Academic Earth More new content from AE - a lecture from introductory course to Literary Theory which attempts to answer the questions: what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?
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Yale Professor Paul H Fry lecture on The Postmodern Psyche from the course Literary Theory. In this lecture on the postmodern psyche, Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Slavoj Žižek. ...
Academic Earth NEW Course - Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Prof. Stearns discusses major ideas, mechanisms, and processes in these fields.
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Yale Professor Stephen C Stearns lecture on Adaptive Evolution: Natural Selection from the course Evolution, Ecology and Behavior. Adaptive Evolution is driven by natural selection. Natural selection is ...
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From another of the latest courses on AE, Prof Martin discusses
reconciling contradictions to form a picture of the "historical" Jesus
- from the course on New Testament History and Literature.
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Yale Professor Dale B Martin lecture on The Historical Jesus from the course New Testament History and Literature. It is obvious that certain narratives in the New Testament contradict each other and cannot be woven into a historically coherent whole. ...
Academic Earth The first Architecture course is up on AE - Roman Architecture with Prof. Kleiner introducing great buildings, engineering marvels and urban planning of the Roman Empire.
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Yale Professor Diana E E Kleiner lecture on Architecture of the Western Roman Empire from the course Roman Architecture. Professor Kleiner explores the architecture of the western provinces of the Roman Empire, focusing on sites in what are now North Italy, France, Spain, and Croatia. ...
Academic Earth From the NEW courses on Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise, Prof. Mazzotta introduces Purgatory and the pagan suicidee Cato's embodiement of the virtues of exile.
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Yale Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta lecture on Purgatory I and II from the course Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. In this lecture, Professor Mazzotta introduces Purgatory and proceeds with a close reading of Cantos I and II. ...
Academic Earth A series of discussions with Don Francis, the epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and helped discover AIDS:
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Free video course on Searching for an AIDS Vaccine by Don Francis of Stanford.
Academic Earth Learn XML through Buliding Dynamic Websites - a new course from Harvard, updated every week.
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Harvard Professor David J. Malan lecture on Building Dynamic Websites: XML (continued) from the course Building Dynamic Websites. Professor David J. Malan discusses the use of XML in building dynamic websites.
Academic Earth Blood Meridian - it's influences in from literary tradition and American history.
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Yale Professor Amy Hungerford lecture on Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian from the course The American Novel Since 1945. In this first of two lectures on Blood Meridian, Professor Hungerford walks us through ...
Academic Earth How different are our reproductive habits from the great apes? A lecture from one of the New Courses, Global Population Growth:
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Yale Professor Robert Wyman lecture on Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies from the course Global Population Growth. Reproduction is not simple or easy, nor is it fair. Females often bear a larger reproductive burden of child bearing and child rearing. ...
Academic Earth Rediscover your childhood, or at least how to think like a 3 year old again!
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Yale Professor Paul Bloom lecture on What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought from the course Introduction to Psychology. This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. ...
Academic Earth Breaking the sound barrier - engineering the jump to Hypersonic speeds.
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MIT Professor Bass Redd lecture on Aerodynamics - (From Sub - to Hypersonic and Back) from the course Aircraft Systems Engineering.
Academic Earth The Stock Market explained and simplified.
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Yale Professor Robert Shiller lecture on Stocks from the course Financial Markets. The stock market is the information center for the corporate sector. It represents individuals' ownership in publicly-held corporations. ...
