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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.
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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. ...
Hector
Hector
Its the 6th Sense!!
November 19 at 10:45am
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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 ...
Steve Cox
Steve Cox
I wish libraries allowed length of computer access capable of vewing this stuff...
3 hours ago
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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. ...
Toby Rush
Toby Rush
Kathy, you might like this guy's viewpoint.
http://www.blaketashi.com/
November 14 at 9:54am
Rosalyn Chatt
Rosalyn Chatt
His commentary style is rhizomatic. In any case, in the meantime, somewhat ambiguously he does certainly come to some modeling of the thought process he wishes to express.
November 14 at 3:13pm
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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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Academic Earth 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. ...
Sarojini Devi
Sarojini Devi
Despite the fact that the intepretation of Jesus were multiple, I like the way he summed up his lecture, giving Jesus much more credit..."Jesus was here to prepare the people of Israel, to make them ready for the apostolical in breaking of God to have happen at our time, setting up the new kingdom of God through the land of Israel that would ... Read Moreincorporate the new world"...isn't that why Jesus claimed himself to be the son of God.... Very interesting lecture and yet many of his points could be disproven logically too....
November 15 at 9:45am
Craig Scarberry
Craig Scarberry
Sherry, George McDonald wrote fairy tales and fantasy novels, he once wrote: "I write, not for children, but for the child-like..." Are you certain you want to use a quote from him in this context??
November 15 at 9:54pm
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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. ...
Magnus Onwudiwe
November 12 at 4:44am
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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. ...
Micke
Micke
LOVE Dante and the trilogy.
November 9 at 8:18pm
Madalinutza Statoae
Madalinutza Statoae
dante is a genious
November 10 at 5:27pm
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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.
Anne
Anne
fasinating! want to check this out!
November 9 at 1:52pm
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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.
Sripradha Viswanathan
Sripradha Viswanathan
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww looking for something lik this for a long time! Hail AE!
November 7 at 1:12am
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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 ...
Peg Ferrier
Peg Ferrier
Did they just mispunctuate its, seriously? Can I blame Yale or Academic Earth? Come on, guys.....
November 7 at 2:39pm
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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. ...
Alan Wuertenberger
Alan Wuertenberger
Becasue we ARE apes..... that's why; albeit apes specialized for murder and mayhem......
November 6 at 7:13am
Sean McClue
Sean McClue
I am sure all the apes checking their facebooks today will know exactly what you are talking about... YOU have got to be kidding... Spent much time with apes recently... come on, get serious! The genome sequence divergence varies significantly between humans, chimpanzees and gorillas.
November 10 at 3:09pm
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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. ...
David James Weston
David James Weston
very interesting info that.
November 5 at 11:49am
Jennifer
Jennifer
Very interesting. Though this is a lecture where being able to see the screen projections would have been very helpful.
November 5 at 5:00pm
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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.
Wenju Pony
Wenju Pony
fly the academic coop
November 4 at 1:57pm
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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. ...