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Ideas, Learning & Language

University lectures & courses

University lectures & courses sits within Ideas, Learning & Language. Compare ways of explaining, questioning, and communicating ideas across different subjects and traditions. This selection contains 127 catalog videos from 81 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include stanford, scheme, mit, sicp, deep learning and energy. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include course, lecture and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“How to Speak”, listed under MIT OpenCourseWare, is cataloged as lecture. Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks. It covers how to start, use time and place, boards, props and slides, and how to inform, persuade and…

“1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology”, listed under Stanford, is cataloged as lecture. The opening lecture of Robert Sapolsky's Stanford course on Human Behavioral Biology, explaining the course premise and how to avoid categorical thinking. It starts a roughly 25-lecture series on how biology, genes,…

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