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"The latest research shows that people almost never "rise to the occasion" when faced with a life-threatening challenge, regardless of how often we hear that phrase. Instead, as Professor Nancy Zarse explains in the 12 empowering lectures of Survival Mentality: The Psychology of Staying Alive, people generally revert to their lowest level of training and preparation. And Professor Zarse knows this firsthand. She brings not only her academic knowledge,...
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"Learning a new language opens a wealth of opportunities. But there's one language family that provides benefits like no other: the languages of computer programming. Now widely taught in schools -- even in elementary schools -- programming is an eminently learnable skill that gives you unrivaled problem-solving power you can apply in all areas of life. Programming is also a fun, creative activity that imparts deep insights into how we control the...
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A grand introduction to one of the most captivating, and human, fields of inquiry. Taught by Professor Catherine A. Sanderson of Amherst College, these 36 insightful lessons not only give a solid grounding in the history of psychology, but they also introduce viewers to the most up-to-date 21st-century research and discoveries, including strategies to increase their happiness and to improve how to live their lives.
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The twelve lectures of this course are about looking at the sky and objects or phenomena in it during the day and night, over small and large distances from Earth. In these lectures explore various topics related to astronomy including, rainbows and coronas, solar and lunar halos, sunspots and prominences, star patterns, the planets, the Moon and lunar phases, and solar and lunar eclipses.
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Nearly everyone has heard of black holes, but few people outside of complex scientific fields understand their true nature and their implications for our universe. This lecture course makes this cosmological subject graspable, with 12 lavishly illustrated lectures by veteran Great Courses Professor Alex Filippenko, a distinguished astronomer and award-winning teacher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Introduces the remarkable story of Darwin's ideas, how scientists and religious leaders reacted to them, and the sea of change in human thought that resulted. Perhaps more than any other idea in science, Darwin's theory of natural selection shows how a strikingly original concept can break the bounds of its discipline to influence society at large -- in religion, politics, philosophy, and other spheres.
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Ready to exercise those brain cells? Professor Arthur T. Benjamin is renowned for his feats of mental calculation performed before audiences at schools, theaters, museums, conferences, and in this series, he shows that there are simple tricks that allow anyone to look like a math magician. Throughout these lectures, he shows how everything in mathematics is connected--how the beautiful and often imposing edifice that has given us algebra, geometry,...
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Ecology is to reveal the nature of ourselves and of our relationship with the species around us. The lectures in this course are often in pairs, with basic ecological principles discussed in the first lecture and the human role or human implications addressed in the second.
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Cosmology is the study of the origin and nature of the entire Universe and it is currently one of the most exciting of the academic disciplines. This course assumes no prior knowledge of astronomy, nor science beyond high school and touches upon many areas of cosmology using non-technical, everyday language to make difficult concepts accessible for all learners.
17) How we learn
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"This course explores the newest research on how we acquire new knowledge and skills- from birth through late life. We now know that learning depends on what is learned, how and why it is learned, and by whom, and each of these issues will be examined throughout the course."--p. 1 of course guidebook.
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Presents a collection lectures on topics that reveal the rich, wondrous structure of what we see around us. Patterns in nature are the source of our geometrical understanding of the world. Abstracting those patterns leads to concepts from classical geometry. Extensions of those and other ideas of form have created a landscape of mathematical ideas, including Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometries, symmetry groups, and graph theory.
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"The concept of human intelligence is sometimes controversial, but tow things are surely true. First no matter how "intelligence" is defined, you know someone who is not as intelligent as you are. Second, intelligence has something to do with the brain. New neuroscience tools, especially brain imaging, are revealing what a smart brain looks like and helping researchers understand the neural mechanisms of what makes one person learn faster, remember...
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