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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Zoology: Understanding the Animal World

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Zoology: Understanding the Animal World Join a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Zoo...

1: What Do Zoologists Do? Get a solid foundation for all the terms and concepts you'll encounter throughout this course. Discover what zoologists do (it's much more than running zoos), take a close look at the phylogenic tree (the tree of life), and examine the definition of terms like species,...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Your Best Brain

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Your Best Brain Probe the origins of consciousness, intelligence, and more and learn...

1: How Your Brain Works Begin your journey with a "flight map" for your tour of the world's most sophisticated survival organ-the human brain. Establish some common language and principles for understanding and exploring the human brain. 2: Your Unique Thinking Abilities What makes the human brain so different from...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Origins of the Human Mind

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Origins of the Human Mind An authoritative guide to the latest information and...

1: Brains and Minds, Evolution and Development Professor Hinshaw lays the groundwork for this fascinating journey into the depths of the human mind by introducing the structure of the course, posing a series of provocative questions, and explaining the three predominant perspectives on our minds: the spirit-based, the naturalistic, and...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution Join a noted field...

1: What Darwin Knew and Why It Still Matters Retrace Darwin’s path to his theory of evolution by natural selection, which appeared in his masterpiece The Origin of Species, published in 1859. Encounter collector Alfred Russel Wallace’s astonishing, almost identical, key insight. Detail the types of evidence, not known to...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear Explore the fundamental concepts and fascinating...

1: Our Random World-Probability Defined The concept of randomness and its quantification through probability is central to understanding the world of science, games, business, and other endeavors. This lecture introduces the basic laws of probability. 2: The Nature of Randomness Randomness refers to situations in which given results are unpredictable,...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the World's Greatest Structures

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the World's Greatest Structures Take a unique tour of our world's most...

1: Learning to See and Understand Structure How are ideas for buildings, bridges, and towers transformed from sketches to concrete reality? What are the three essential qualities that make a structure great? What's the difference between seeing a structure and actually understanding it? Discover the answers to these and other...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition Get a comprehensive overview...

1: A Grand Tour of the Cosmos You embark on a fantastic voyage throughout the Universe, starting in this lecture with a whirlwind tour of the course, which extends from phenomena in Earth's atmosphere to events at the farthest reaches of space and time.... 2: The Rainbow Connection The daytime...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception Discover the secret life of your senses...

1: Your Amazing, Intelligent Senses Embark on a fascinating journey into the secret life of your senses. In this introductory lecture, Professor Vishton uses a series of demonstrations to prove that perception is, in fact, amazing; shows you how your sensory systems inherently rely on making "educated guesses"; and lays...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Quantum World

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Quantum World Open your mind and broaden your scientific horizons as...

1: Particle-Wave Duality Begin your journey into the quantum world by focusing on one of its most baffling features: the behavior of quantum entities as both particles and waves. Following her approach of presenting analogies over equations, Professor Carlson gives a handy way of visualizing this paradox. Then she takes...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior Gain insight into puzzling aspects of human...

1: Solving Psychological Mysteries Many of the answers to puzzling aspects of human behavior lie in some of the fundamental characteristics of the human species. In this introductory lecture, focus on three broad themes you'll follow throughout the course: evolution, self-awareness, and culture. 2: How Did Human Nature Evolve? Much...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science Get a grip on reality...

1: Metaphysics and the Nature of Science Start with the metaphysical concept of reality and how it led to a scientific worldview. Then see how the scientific picture of reality changes as theories are refined or overthrown. Explore examples such as the germ theory of disease and philosopher Thomas Kuhn's...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Real Crime Scenes: The Evidence Speaks

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Real Crime Scenes: The Evidence Speaks Uncover the secrets of forensic science in...

1: Real Crime Scenes: The Evidence Speaks Uncover the secrets of forensic science in this absolutely fascinating program that teaches you how science is used to solve criminal mysteries.

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe Explore the thrilling world of pulsars, quasars,...

1: Radio Astronomy and the Invisible Universe Even on the clearest, darkest night you cannot see more than five percent of the light from our home galaxy, the Milky Way, because of the blockage of light by dust. Fortunately, the 20th century brought us radio astronomy, the study of radio...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Quantum Mechanics

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Quantum Mechanics Peer into the strange and wonderful world of quantum physics with...

1: The Quantum Enigma Quantum mechanics is the most successful physical theory ever devised, and you learn what distinguishes it from its predecessor, classical mechanics. Professor Schumacher explains his ground rules for the course, which is designed to teach you some of the deep ideas and methods of quantum mechanics....

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Psychology of Human Behavior

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Psychology of Human Behavior Get an accessible yet amazing introduction to a complex...

1: Modern Psychology in Historical Context This lecture introduces psychology as the study of human behavior either from a clinical or scientific perspective-with several examples of the varieties of approaches each may take-and also traces some of the discipline's history.... 2: Experimentation as a Research Method Experimentation is one of...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Neutron Stars and Pulsars

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Neutron Stars and Pulsars Examine the fascinating world of neutron stars and learn...

1: Neutron Stars and Pulsars In 1967, a strange signal of data was detected by a radio telescope. Pulses of radio emission appeared with astonishing regularity, like a perfectly ticking clock. These pulses were the very first observations of a neutron star, the tiny and dense remnant left behind by...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany Learn to see and appreciate the amazing...

1: The Joy of Botany Although almost every child knows the difference between an elephant and a giraffe, few people of any age can name the plants they see out their window every single day. Solve this "plant blindness" by learning about the fascinating lifeforms to whom we owe so...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Physics in Your Life

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Physics in Your Life An award-winning professor brings physics down to earth from...

1: Realms of Physics Professor Richard Wolfson introduces the field of physics and describes the fundamental role it plays in our lives. He discusses the difference between classical and modern physics and outlines the course scope.... 2: The Amazing Disc This lecture uses compact discs and DVDs as metaphors for...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Physics and Our Universe

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Physics and Our Universe Discover science's most fundamental branch in this course that...

1: The Fundamental Science Take a quick trip from the subatomic to the galactic realm as an introduction to physics, the science that explains physical reality at all scales. Professor Wolfson shows how physics is the fundamental science that underlies all the natural sciences. He also describes phenomena that are...

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions

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TheGreatCoursesPlus - Passions: Philosophy and the Intelligence of Emotions A distinguished philosopher and author takes...

1: Emotions as Engagements with the World Professor Robert C. Solomon begins by reviewing the rich history of thinking about emotions. He introduces the major themes of the course, including Jean-Paul Sartre's idea that emotions are "magical transformations of the world."... 2: The Wrath of Achilles Starting a sequence of...

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