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    Yale / Dante's Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise with Giuseppe Mazzotta
    The last class of the semester consists of a brief recapitulation of topics in the Divine Comedy addressed throughout the course, followed by an extensive question and answer session with the students. The questions posed allow Professor Mazzotta to elaborate on issues raised over the course of th...
    23 Videos = 26 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Death with Shelly Kagan
    The lecture focuses on arguments that might be offered as proof for the existence of the soul. The first series of arguments discussed is those known as "inferences to the best explanation." That is, we posit the existence of things we cannot see so as to explain something else that is generally a...
    26 Videos = 20 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / European Civilization, 1648-1945 with John Merriman
    The rise of absolutism in Europe must be understood in the context of insecurity attending the religious wars of the first half of the seventeenth century, and the Thirty Years' War in particular. Faced with the unprecedented brutality and devastation of these conflicts, European nobles and landow...
    24 Videos = 18 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Evolution, Ecology and Behavior with Stephen C Stearns
    Adaptive Evolution is driven by natural selection. Natural selection is not "survival of the fittest," but rather "reproduction of the fittest." Evolution can occur at many different speeds based on the strength of the selection driving it. These types of selection can result in directional, stabi...
    36 Videos = 27 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Faith and Globalization
    Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, introduces students to issues relating to the interaction between religious values, work, and business practices.
    24 Videos = 6:55:11 - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Financial Markets
    Banks, which were first created in primitive form by goldsmiths hundreds of years ago, have evolved into central economic institutions that manage the allocation of resources, channel information about productive activities, and offer the public convenient investment vehicles. Although there are s...
    26 Videos = 31 hours - Academic Earth, Friday, April 11th, 2008
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    Yale / France Since 1871 with Bruno Cabanes
    Anti-Americanism in France has historically been directed toward the U.S. government and corporations rather than American citizens. In the wake of World War II, the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe was considered by many to be a form of American imperialism. Along with the establishment of Ame...
    24 Videos = 18 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Fundamentals of Physics with Ramamurti Shankar
    This lecture continues the topic of thermodynamics, exploring in greater detail what heat is, and how it is generated and measured. The Boltzmann Constant is introduced. The microscopic meaning of temperature is explained. The First Law of Thermodynamics is presented.
    24 Videos = 28 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Game Theory with Benjamin Polak
    We discuss auctions. We first distinguish two extremes: common values and private values. We hold a common value auction in class and discover the winner's curse, the winner tends to overpay. We discuss why this occurs and how to avoid it: you should bid as if you knew that your bid would win; tha...
    24 Videos = 28 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Global Population Growth with Robert Wyman
    The idea that "life begins at conception" is not a scientific one. Since the disproof of 'spontaneous generation' (1668-1859), we have known that life only derives from life. Life arose billions of years ago and has continued since as a cycle. Assigning a beginning to a cycle (like the year) is ar...
    24 Videos = 27 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Donald Kagan
    In this lecture, Professor Kagan describes the mechanics of the Delian League and its transformation into the Athenian empire. This transformation caused Athens to rival Sparta as an equal in power and prestige. He also argues that this process took place rather smoothly due to the good relations ...
    24 Videos = 28 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Introduction to Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn
    Class begins with a review of the mysterious nature of dark matter, which accounts for three quarters of the universe. Different models of the universe are graphed. The nature, frequency, and duration of supernovae are then addressed. Professor Bailyn presents data from the Supernova Cosmology Pro...
    24 Videos = 19 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Introduction to Biomedical Engineering with Mark Saltzman
    Professor Saltzman first reviews the electromagnetic spectrum, the different regimes of the spectrum, their respective wavelengths, energies, and ways of detecting them. He then talks about the use of high energy radio waves for imaging of the body. The history, components, advantages and limitati...
    25 Videos = 19 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Introduction to Political Philosophy with Steven B. Smith
    The lecture begins with an introduction of Aristotle's life and works which constitute thematic treatises on virtually every topic, from biology to ethics to politics. Emphasis is placed on the Politics, in which Aristotle expounds his view on the naturalness of the city and his claim that man is ...
    24 Videos = 17 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Introduction to Psychology with Paul Bloom
    This lecture finishes the discussion of language by briefly reviewing two additional topics: communication systems in non-human primates and other animals, and the relationship between language and thought. The majority of this lecture is then spent on introducing students to major theories and di...
    20 Videos = 17 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Literary Theory with Paul H Fry
    In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A brief history of African-American literature and criticism is undertaken, and the relationship of both to feminist theory is explicated. The problems in...
    25 Videos = 21 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / New Testament History and Literature with Dale B Martin
    The speech that Stephen gives before his accusers in Acts shows how the author of Luke-Acts used and edited his sources. So, also, does the description of the destruction of Jerusalem in Luke, as compared to that in Mark. The major themes of Luke-Acts are 1) the Gospel going first to the Jews and ...
    26 Videos = 20 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Organic Chemistry with J Michael McBride
    This lecture completes the first half of the semester by analyzing three functional groups in terms of the interaction of localized atomic or pairwise orbitals. Many key properties of biological polypeptides derive from the mixing of such localized orbitals that we associate with "resonance" of th...
    37 Videos = 30 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / Roman Architecture with Diana E E Kleiner
    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. Her major objective is to characterize "Romanization," the way in which the Romans provide amenities to their new colonies while, at ...
    24 Videos = 28 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / The American Novel Since 1945 with Amy Hungerford
    In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course's academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyce's Ulysses and an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view a...
    26 Videos = 20 hours - Academic Earth
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    Yale / The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 with David W. Blight
    After finishing with his survey of the manner in which historians have explained the coming of the Civil War, Professor Blight focuses on Fort Sumter. After months of political maneuvering, the Civil War began when Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, in the harbor outside Charleston, SC. The declar...
    27 Videos = 22 hours - Academic Earth, Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
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    Yale / The Poetry of John Milton with John Rogers
    Milton's political tract Areopagitica is discussed at length. The author's complicated take on state censorship and licensing, both practiced by the English government with respect to printed materials at the time, is examined. His eclectic use of pagan mythology, Christian scripture, and the meta...
    24 Videos = 19 hours - Academic Earth
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