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Lecture 19 - Economic Motivations for Fertility, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Data shows, consistently, that poor people have more children than rich people; economically speaking, children are an inferior good. Children are...

Lecture 24 - Neo-Pragmatism, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry takes on Knapp and Michaels’s influential article, "Against Theory." The historical context of the piece is gi...

Lecture 27 - Communicating Molecular Structure in Diagrams and Words, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 It is important that chemists agree on notation and nomenclature in order to communicate molecular constitution and configuration. It is best when ...

Lecture 7 - Quantum Mechanical Kinetic Energy, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 After pointing out several discrepancies between electron difference density results and Lewis bonding theory, the course proceeds to quantum mech...

Lecture 18 - Economic Impact of Population Growth, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 1) Population in China: Until recently, Chinese families did not much alter their fertility depending on life events such as deaths of children. H...

Lecture 23 - The Institutional Construction of Literary Study, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture on critical identities, Professor Fry examines the work of Stanley Fish and John Guillory. The lecture begins by examining Tony th...

Lecture 9 - The Gospel of Luke, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Luke and Acts, a two-volume work, are structured very carefully by the author to outline the ministry of Jesus and the spread of the Gospel to the...

Lecture 26 - Van’t Hoff's Tetrahedral Carbon and Chirality, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 With his tetrahedral carbon models van’t Hoff explained the mysteries of known optical isomers possessing stereogenic centers and predicted the exi...

Lecture 6 - Seeing Bonds by Electron Difference Density, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor McBride uses a hexagonal "benzene" pattern and Franklin’s X-ray pattern of DNA, to continue his discussion of X-ray crystallography by e...

Popular Protest Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Collective violence, in the form of popular protest, was one of the principal ways in which people resisted the expansion of capitalism and the st...

Lecture 25 - Interactions with the Physical Environment, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Every species on earth has an environmental range in which it can live. Usually it flourishes in the central portion of this range. Organisms conta...

Lecture 22 - Queer Theory and Gender Performativity, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture on queer theory, Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Judith Butler in relation to Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Diff...

Lecture 2 - Introduction (cont.), Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this second introductory lecture, Professor Paul Fry explores the interrelation of skepticism and determinism. The nature of discourse and the ...

Fascists Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 While Nazi Germany’s crimes were unprecedented, Adolf Hitler himself was in many respects a typical figure. An idle youth, of seemingly mediocre t...

Lecture 1 - Introduction, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this first lecture, Professor Paul Fry explores the course’s title in three parts. The relationship between theory and philosophy, the question...

Introduction to European Civilization Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The course will concern European history from 1648 to 1945. The assigned readings include both standard historical texts and works of fiction, as ...

Lecture 25 - Models in 3D Space (1869-1877); Optical Isomers, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Despite cautions from their conservative elders, young chemists like Paternó and van’t Hoff began interpreting molecular graphs in terms of the ar...

Lecture 8 - Exploring Special Subjects on Pompeian Walls, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner discusses special subjects in Roman wall painting that do not fall within the four architectural styles but were nonetheless inse...

Lecture 24 - Climate and the Distribution of Life on Earth, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 This lecture provides an overview of the physical aspects of earth’s biomes. Temperature, water, latitude, and altitude all come into play. Region...

Lecture 16 - Population in Traditional China, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 China’s early demographic history is similar to that of Europe; population grows only slowly due to war, disease and Malthusian resource limitatio...

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