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Lecture 24 - Determining Chemical Structure by Isomer Counting (1869), Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Half a century before direct experimental observation became possible, most structures of organic molecules were assigned by inspired guessing bas...

Lecture 15 - Female Disadvantage, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In East and South Asia there are many more boys than girls. Previously, this resulted from female infanticide, now it is sex-selective abortion. I...

Lecture 20 - African-American Criticism, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A ...

Lecture 26 - The "Afterlife" of the New Testament and Postmodern Interpretation, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 How did a small group following an apocalyptic prophet in Palestine become Christianity - what is now called a "world religion"? This small movemen...

Lecture 23 - Valence Theory and Constitutional Structure (1858), Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Youthful chemists Couper and Kekulé replaced radical and type theories with a new approach involving atomic valence and molecular structure, and b...

Basic Transmission Genetics Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Genetic transmission is the mechanism that drives evolution. DNA encodes all the information necessary to make an organism. Every organism’s DNA is...

Lecture 19 - The Classical Feminist Tradition, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture on feminist criticism, Professor Paul Fry uses Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own as a lens to and commentary on the fl...

Lecture 25 - Ecclesiastical Institutions: Unity, Martyrs, and Bishops, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The Epistle of Jude can be dated to somewhere during post-apostolic Christianity and before the formation of the Canon. It refers to the apostles a...

Lecture 14 - Demographic Transition in Developing Countries, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 By 1950, in most of the underdeveloped world, mortality had fallen to about half its pre-modern rate. The birth rate, however, had remained high a...

Lecture 5 - Houses and Villas of Pompeii, Roman Architecture Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor Kleiner discusses domestic architecture at Pompeii from its beginnings in the fourth and third centuries B.C. to the eruption of Vesuvius...

Maximilien Robespierre and the French Revolution Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Robespierre’s ascetic personal life and severe philosophy of political engagement are attributed by some to his difficult childhood. As a revolutio...

Lecture 21 - Evolutionary Medicine, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Evolution plays an important though underutilized role in medicine. Evolution guides how our bodies respond to various treatments, how pathogens w...

Lecture 13 - Fertility Attitudes and Practices, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Surveys show that most women are having more children than they would prefer to have. Further, studies show that the vast majority of women know a...

Lecture 18 - The New Historicism, Literary Theory Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines the work of two seminal New Historicists, Stephen Greenblatt and Jerome McGann. The origins of New Hi...

Lecture 24 - Apocalyptic and Accommodation, New Testament History and Literature Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 The Apocalypse of John showed an anti-Roman, politically revolutionary perspective. This is in contrast with Paul’s writing in Romans 13, which ca...

Lecture 12 - Human and Environmental Impacts, Global Population Growth Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Until recently, the world population has been growing faster than exponentially. Although the growth rate has slowed somewhat, there are about 80 ...

Lecture 1 - How Do You Know: Divine or Human Authority vs Logic and Experiment, Organic Chemistry Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Professor McBride outlines the course with its goals and requirements, including the required laboratory course. To the course’s prime question "H...

The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 While the major philosophical projects of the Enlightenment are associated with the names of individual thinkers such as Montesquieu, Rousseau, an...

War in the Trenches Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 With the failure of Germany’s offensive strategy, WWI became a war of defense, in which trenches played a major role. The use of trenches and barb...

Peter the Great Channel: ACADEMIC EARTH Length: 0 Date: November 03, 2009 Peter the Great’s historical significance stems not only from his military ambitions and the great expansion of the Russian Empire under his superv...

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