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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. ...
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. ...
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From Berkeley's course on Nonviolence, discussing the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic
nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social
justice and defense.
How Science and History Weigh in on the Possibility of the Nonviolence Effect I | Berkeley History L
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Berkeley Professor Michael Nagler lecture on How Science and History Weigh in on the Possibility of the Nonviolence Effect I from the course Nonviolence: From Gandhi to Martin Luther King.
Academic Earth Hashing out the geography of the 2008 Presidential Elections - It's more than just Red State, Blue State.
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Academic Earth The second lecture from the renowned Harvard course, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? currently being taught, with the newest lectures being uploaded every week!
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Harvard Professor Michael Sandel lecture on How Much is a Life Worth? from the course Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?. Part 1 - Putting a Price Tag on Life: Today, companies and governments ...
Academic Earth Frederick Douglass' 1845 narrative and other slaves' narratives are discussed in the context of the movement towards radical abolitionism.
Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality | Yale Histor
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Yale Professor David W. Blight lecture on Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality from the course The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877. Professor Blight discusses the rise of abolitionism. ...
Academic Earth Learn about the physics behind planetary motion and their orbits around the Sun.
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Yale Professor Ramamurti Shankar lecture on Kepler's Laws from the course Fundamentals of Physics. The focus of the lecture is problems of gravitational interaction. The three laws of Kepler are stated and explained. ...
Academic Earth Everyone knows his mantra "survival of the fittest" - now learn about Darwin the man and his legacy with Stanford's William Durham.
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Stanford Professor William Durham lecture on Course Intro: Darwin's Legacy from the course Darwin's Legacy. Introductory lecture by William Durham for the Stanford Continuing Studies course on Darwin's Legacy. ...
Academic Earth It's a Lolita kind of morning today! Reconciling Nabokov's virtuosic style and the violence of the subject matter.
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Yale Professor Amy Hungerford lecture on Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita from the course The American Novel Since 1945. Professor Amy Hungerford introduces the first of three lectures on Nabokov's Lolita ...
