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Lecture 17 - The Baths of Caracalla, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner discusses the increasing size of Roman architecture in the second and third centuries A.D. as an example of a "bigger is better" ...

Lecture 16 - The Roman Life in Ostia, the Port of Rome, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner focuses on Ostia, the port of Rome, characterized by its multi-storied residential buildings and its widespread use of brick-fac...

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Guest Lecture by Jay Winters) Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 As a result of World War I, Europe had a different understanding of war in the twentieth century than the United States. One of the most important...

Lecture 4 - When Humans Were Scarce, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Hunter-gatherer populations were much less dense than later agriculturalists. The variety of their food supply protected them from crop failures an...

Lecture 15 - Hadrian’s Pantheon and Tivoli Retreat, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner features the architecture built in and around Rome during the reign of Hadrian. The lecture begins with the Temple of Venus and R...

Lecture 3 - From Ape to Human, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Throughout prehistoric, written, and recent history, human warfare has been commonplace. Nearly all societies engage in regular or periodic war. I...

Lecture 14 - Civic Architecture in Rome under Trajan, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner analyzes the major public architectural commissions of the emperor Trajan in Rome. Distinguished by their remarkably ambitious sc...

Imperialists and Boy Scouts Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The boom in European colonial expansion in the second half of the nineteenth century, the so-called New Imperialism, can be seen to follow from th...

Lecture 2 - Sex and Violence Among the Apes, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Chimpanzee males compete for position in a dominance hierarchy; status often depends on support from other members, including females, of the grou...

Lecture 22 - Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson), Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Guest lecturer William Ryerson is President of the Population Media Center which produces radio and TV serial dramas in developing countries that a...

Lecture 13 - Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner investigates the major architectural commissions of the emperor Domitian, the last Flavian emperor. She begins with the Arch of ...

The Evolution of Sex Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 There are several explanations for the evolution of sex and its continued prevalence. One is facilitating the spread of helpful mutations while has...

Lecture 21 - Global Demography of Abortion, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Abortion is very common both worldwide and in the US. There is one abortion for every 3.2 live births. In places where contraception is not used, ...

Lecture 6 - The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this second lecture on formalism, Professor Paul Fry begins by exploring the implications of Wimsatt and Beardsley’s theory of literary interpr...

Lecture 1 - Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Reproduction is not simple or easy, nor is it fair. Females often bear a larger reproductive burden of child bearing and child rearing. Reproducti...

Lecture 28 - Ecological Communities, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The idea of ecological communities has changed tremendously over the past forty years. The classical view stated that there were so many different ...

Lecture 20 - Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Rates of teen pregnancy in the US are quite high, in contrast to European countries which have much lower rates, especially those with liberal att...

Lecture 25 - Reflections, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this final lecture on literary theory, Professor Paul Fry revisits the relationship between language and speech, language and intention, and la...

Lecture 5 - The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry explores the origins of formalist literary criticism. Considerable attention is paid to the rise and subsequen...

Lecture 28 - Stereochemical Nomenclature; Racemization and Resolution, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Determination of the actual atomic arrangement in tartaric acid in 1949 motivated a change in stereochemical nomenclature from Fischer’s 1891 genea...

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