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"Naomi Grant has built her life around going against the grain. After the sex-positive start-up she cofounded becomes an international sensation, she wants to extend her educational platform to live lecturing. Unfortunately, despite her long list of qualifications, higher ed won’t hire her. Ethan Cohen has recently received two honors: LA Mag nominated him as one of the city’s hottest bachelors and he became rabbi of his own synagogue. Low on...
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"An offshoot of artificial intelligence, machine learning takes programming a giant step beyond the traditional role of computers in routine data processing, such as scheduling, keeping accounts, and making calculations. Now computers are being programmed to figure out how to solve problems by themselves—problems that are so complex that humans often don’t know where to begin. Indeed, machine learning has become so advanced that, often, even the...
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"Have you ever picked up a rock and admired its colors, crystals, and texture, and thought, "How did it get this way?" Or have you ever driven by an unusual landform and wondered, "Why is it like that?" These questions have surprisingly deep answers that can encompass a significant fraction of Earth's 4.6-billion-year history. Such revelations come from the science of geology, but you don't have to be a professional geologist to look at a rock or...
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"Cooking: Is it art or is it science? As the great culinary chefs worldwide tell their students, it is both. We all know people who seem to have been born with unique culinary talent—they never use recipes and rarely employ measuring spoons but seem instead to have a preternatural understanding of flavor, texture, and aroma. These artists turn a bare pantry and a few leftovers into a meal beyond imagining; and although you were standing there the...
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Investigate the turbulent events that marked the beginning of the Middle Ages. Trace the rise of warrior peoples from the Asian steppes that brought down the Chinese, Indian, and Roman empires, and the advent of Germanic kings who ruled the West. Take account of the great trading networks that connected the civilizations of Asia with those of the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.
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Most Americans these days consider entrepreneurship to be a good career. More than half of all American adults will start at least one business during their working life. An even greater percentage of the workforce now wants to work from home. Due to the shutdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became a common practice that many Americans would like to see as a permanent work option. This means that if you2re like most Americans, you've...
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In the episodes of Decorate like a Designer with Jonathan Adler, learn all the major rules of good design and decoration and finally say farewell to feelings of intimidation. Along the way, while you consider the vast and eye-popping history of design, you'll be introduced to some of Jonathan's biggest influences and inspirations and you'll learn handy tips and tricks to use just like the experts.
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Since March 2022, the world has experienced the COVID-19 pandemic. Imagine more than 400 years of the bubonic plague that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages. We thought we knew its causes. In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, medievalist Dorsey Armstrong robustly describes plague biology, correcting inaccurate pandemic explanations. COVID-19 isn't likely to be humanity's last experience with a zoonotic disease. What can we learn...
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"Creativity is a skill, one which all of us can cultivate. This course takes you on a deep dive into the human creative brain, where you'll learn about the synchronized brain activity that underlies creative thinking; key stages in the creative process; how to stimulate creative insight, imagination, and the flow state; the process of mastering a skill, the steps of design thinking, the rules of improvisation; and much more"--Publisher's website.
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"In many ways, insects are just like us. Elaborate mating rituals, a variety of parenting styles, and a plethora of jobs—from architects and engineers to farmers and ranchers. Like us, they’re able to share complex information essential for survival, significantly impact their environment, and recycle. But insects outdo us in so many respects. They are mostly terrestrial, but some can live underwater. Their six legs are great for walking or running,...
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Geography plays one of the most important roles in a civilization's development, and this holds true for the ancient Greeks. But it is the Greek experiments in government that drove much of their success. Tour the ancient Greek city-states of Athens, Sparta, and more to find out how they were governed, and how they dealt with conflicts.
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We can envision scenarios for the year 2100, but what about 2600? Or 3100? Reflect on the possibilities, drawing from the imaginative work of futurists and science fiction writers. See where human civilization might go - and what might happen to us along the way - on this planet, or in the universe, as Homo sapiens, or even as some future species.
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"You are a member of the only species that has survived in the genus Homo since its 2.5-million-year evolutionary journey began. Homo habilis, H. erectus, H. neanderthalensis—plus many other species we know of and perhaps dozens yet to be discovered—have all come and gone. Homo sapiens alone has endured. Who were these long-ago ancestors of ours? Where and how did they live and die? And how are we even able to learn about these humans, some of...
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"It’s dinner time, and you’re making grandma’s famous lasagna. The ingredients in front of you include things like high-quality noodles, jarred tomato sauce, sweet Italian sausage, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, and more, and it all came from your local grocery store—nothing too fancy. You trust the brands you bought, after all, and the supermarket you went to, and the recipe your grandmother passed down. But what do you actually know about...
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Great courses. Literature and language. Language learning volume course 2858
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In this exciting series on Italian, learn to speak about the present, the past, and the future through detailed work with verbs, nouns, and adjectives, plus you'll learn vocabulary on numerous, useful subjects. Also discover the romantic beauties of Campania, The "Marches", Il Veneto, and Tuscany, in an unforgettable immersion into Italy's splendorous language and culture.
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Among significant Neolithic (New Stone Age) sites, explore Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, whose imposing stone rings are the oldest known examples of monumental architecture in the early Near East. Continue to Jericho, with its extraordinary tombs and famous tower, and Turkey's Catalhoyuk, noted for its mysterious houses built without doors or windows.
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