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- "Even If" Arguments: The Essential Weapon
- 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo
- A Different Cause of Vomiting
- A Guided Tour of the Brain
- A History of British India
- A History of India
- A Movable Meditation
- A New Mindset about Stress
- A Philosophical Science of Consciousness?
- A Problem of Gravity
- A Return to Parallelism
- A Split India: Negotiating Independence
- A history of Eastern Europe, Episode 12, The holocaust and the Nazi racial empire
- A(n) Historical Issue
- Above- and Below-Surface Waterscapes
- Abraham, Sarah, and the Promise
- Achievements and Legacy of Ptolemy
- Active Participles
- Activist Investors: Icahn, Loeb, Ackman
- Adapting the Multimedia Mystery
- Addiction 101
- Additional Patterns of the First Declension
- Adjective Forms & Second-Declension Nouns
- African American English
- African American Mysteries
- Aging Well: Diet and Stress
- Aging Well: Staying Active
- Aging and Brain Function
- Aging and Brain Structure
- Agrarian Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh
- Al-Ghazali and Orthodoxy
- Alcohol - Social Lubricant or Drug of Abuse?
- Aldous Huxley and Dystopian Pleasure
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander's Conquests and Hellenism
- Algebra I
- Algorithms: Searching and Sorting
- Alignments at Maes Howe and Newgrange
- Alliums: Onions and Garlic
- Altered States of Consciousness
- Alternative Approaches to Stress
- American Death Rituals
- American Dreamers: Hawthorne and Alcott
- An Evolutionary View of Decision Making
- An Introduction to Formal Logic
- An Introduction to Quadratic Polynomials
- An Introduction to the Course
- Anatomy of a Lightning Strike
- Ancient Astronomy and Modern Astrophysics
- Ancient Cosmologies and Worldviews
- Ancient Egyptian Magic
- Ancient Jews Who Were Gods
- Ancient Navigation: Polynesian to Viking
- Ancient Timekeeping and Calendars
- Anger: A Tyrannical King
- Angles and Pencil-Turning Mysteries
- Animal Mummies
- Anonymity
- Another River to Cross
- Antarctica: A Photographer's Paradise
- Anthony Burgess, Free Will, and Dystopia
- Anusara Yoga
- Anxiety - The Way Out Is Through
- Aorist & Imperfect Middle/Passive
- Apocalyptic Literature in the 21st Century
- Approaches to Dying Well
- Apuleius
- Arab Invasion of Andalusia
- Arab Invasion of North Africa
- Archaeology : An introduction to the world's greatest sites, Episode 7, Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhöyük, and Jericho
- Archaeology in North America
- Archaeology: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Sites
- Are Bigger Brains Smarter?
- Are Creative People Right-Brained?
- Are Dreams Meaningful?
- Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
- Are Other Animals Conscious?
- Are Persons Just Bodies?
- Are Persons Mere Minds?
- Are You Always Conscious while Awake?
- Are You Really You?
- Are Your Decisions Rational?
- Arguing for the Affirmative
- Arguing for the Negative
- Art That Moves Us - Time and Motion
- Artistic Responses to the Black Death
- Ashoka’s Imperial Buddhism
- Asking and Answering Leading Questions
- Assembling an Account of Your Discoveries
- Assortments, Variety, and Choice
- Astronomy of Egypt's Great Pyramid
- Attention and Empathy in Relationships
- Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)
- Augustine's Critique of Rome (Books 1-10)
- Augustine's Pagan and Christian Audience
- Augustine's Political Vision (Book 4)
- Augustine's Scriptural History (Books 15-17)
- Augustine's Vision of Hell (Book 21)
- Augustus
- Aztec Origins - Arrival and Rise of the Mexica
- Babylonian Conquest and Exile
- Balakirev: Symphony No. 1
- Banach-Tarski's 1 = 1 + 1
- Basic Program Development and Testing
- Basic Rules of Greek Accentuation
- Battle of Karbala
- Battle of Talas
- Be Yourself
- Becoming a Great Essayist
- Becoming a Great Investor
- Becoming a great essayist, Episode 20, Historical essays - past as present
- Beethoven: The Farewell Sonata
- Beethoven: Wellington’s Victory
- Beets and Beet Greens
- Befriending Fear, Worry, and Anxiety
- Beginnings—Jargon and Undefined Terms
- Belonging, Status, Popularity, and Rejection
- Bending Space and Time
- Bending the Axioms—New Geometries
- Benjamin Graham and Value Investing
- Berg: Wozzeck
- Berlioz/de L’Isle: "La Marseillaise”
- Better Sleep for the Whole Family
- Between You and Your Pronouns
- Biblical Wisdom Literature
- Big Data’s Shadow
- Biofuels
- Biometrics
- Birds of Paradise: Ultimate Photo Challenge
- Black Holes
- Blasket Island Storytellers
- Blizzards and Winter Cyclones
- Books that Matter: The City of God
- Books that matter: the city of God, Your passport to the city of God
- Borrowing and Modifying Ideas
- Bottom-Up Design, Turtle Graphics, Robotics
- Bouncing Away Conflict
- Brahmanic Synthesis
- Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25
- Brain Myths Exploded: Lessons from Neuroscience
- Brassicas: Brussels Sprouts and Turnips
- Breakthroughs of Early Greek Astronomy
- Bridgewater’s Multi-Strategy Investing
- Bring Out Your Flow
- Bringing Visual Mathematics Together
- Britain and Its Empire in the 1940s
- British Expansion in India (1757 - 1820)
- Brutus and the Opposition to Caesar
- Buddhism on Impermanence and Mindfulness
- Build a Logical Case
- Building Affirmative Cases
- Building Authentic Self-Esteem
- Building Basic Translation Skills
- Building Negative Cases
- Building the Roman Republic
- Bulb Vegetables: Fennel and Celery
- Cabbages: Red, Green, and Savoy
- Cacaxtla Murals and Xochicalco
- Caesar and Vercingetorix
- Calakmul - The Mighty Snake Kingdom
- Call for Positive Action
- Camera Traps for Elusive Wildlife
- Can Adult Brains Change for the Better?
- Can Brain Games Make You Smarter?
- Can Brain Scans Read Your Mind?
- Can Certain Foods Make You Smarter?
- Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
- Can You Multitask Effectively?
- Cantor's Infinity of Infinities
- Case Closed? The Problem with Solutions
- Caste and Tribal Identity under Colonialism
- Caste: Varna and Jati
- Cato the Younger
- Chaco Canyon and Anasazi Astronomy
- Change Minds and Hearts
- Change Your Mind to Change Your Stress
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 1, Body composition: managing our expectations
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 10, Critical micronutrients and water
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 11, Food labeling and nutritional choices
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 12, Nutrient timing and frequency
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 13, Nighttime eating
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 14, Evaluating dietary supplements
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 15, Energy balance and weight control
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 16, The caloric cost of exercise
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 17, Exercise for fat loss
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 18, Exercise for healthy muscle mass
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 19, Hormones and body composition
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 2, A healthier way to measure body composition
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 20, Novel ways to change body composition
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 21, Nutrition and exercise: special needs
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 22, Set point theory and the last five pounds
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 23, Choosing your nutrition plan
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 24, Motivation to change your body composition
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 3, How food is digested and absorbed
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 4, Nutritional needs and cellular function
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 5, Bioenergetics: converting food to energy
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 6, Carbohydrates: composition, storage, and use
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 7, Fat: not the nutritional bad guy
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 8, Protein's critical role in body composition
- Changing body composition through diet and exercise, Episode 9, High-protein diets and anabolic resistance
- Channeling Stress for a Competitive Edge
- Chaos and Consolidation in Eurasia
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gendered Utopia
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chemical Energy, Biomass, and Photosynthesis
- Chest, Posture, and the Natural Curve
- Chichen Itza - Maya Capital of the Yucatán
- Childhood Obesity
- Chili Peppers
- China's Dynasties and Influence
- China: Born in Isolation
- Chinese and Other Non-Western Constellations
- Choose Your Adventure: Choose Your Stress
- Chopin: Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12
- Christ's Dual Nature - Proto-Orthodoxy
- Circle-ometry—On Circular Motion
- Civilization, the Biosphere, and Tomorrow
- Clarify Even More
- Clarifying the Challenge
- Classes and Object-Oriented Programming
- Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting
- Classic Maya Collapse - Cities Abandoned!
- Claudius
- Cleopatra - The Last Ptolemy
- Clues on Consciousness from Anesthesiology
- Coal: Convenient, Energy-Dense Fuel
- Code Breaking versus Code Making
- Colorful Carrots
- Combining Opposites
- Common Symptoms, Uncommon Diagnoses
- Communicating Attraction
- Communities That Survived the First Wave
- Competing European Empires
- Complementary and Integrative Medicine
- Complex Numbers in Geometry
- Computational Approaches to the Mind
- Computer Editing: Development
- Computer Editing: Review and Cataloging
- Conditional Argumentation
- Conditional and Indirect Proofs
- Conditionals and Boolean Expressions
- Confucian Remembrance, Daoist Forgetting
- Connecting with Children and Adolescents
- Conquest of the Maya and Landa's Legacy
- Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap
- Conserve Your Energy
- Considering Capital Punishment
- Copan - Jungle Dynasty of the East
- Coping with Pediatric Tragedies
- Copland: Symphony No. 3
- Corn: From Salads to Dessert
- Cosmic Connections
- Could Machines Think?
- Could a Machine Be Conscious?
- Courtroom Drama
- Crassus
- Crazy Kinds of Connectedness
- Creation and Chaos in Genesis
- Creative Styles
- Crumb: Black Angels
- Crusaders Capture Jerusalem
- Cubism - An Experiment in Form
- Cues from Gestures and Gait
- Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication
- Cultural Reactions from Flagellation to Hedonism
- Culture and Empire in South America
- Curved Spacetime
- Cyberpunk Dystopia: Doctorow and Anderson
- Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams
- Daniel O’Connell and the Great Famine
- Data Structures: Stack, Queue, Dictionary, Set
- David Dreman, Contrarian Money Manager
- David and Nation Building
- De Valera’s Ireland
- Dealing with the Unexpected in Debate
- Death Rituals and the Corpse
- Death and Hope in Christianity
- Death and Syncretism in China
- Death, Dying, and the Afterlife
- Death, Illusion, and Meaning
- Death, Rebirth, and Liberation in Hinduism
- Death’s Place in Our Lives
- Debate Jujitsu: Flipping the Warrant
- Deccani and Southern States
- Decision Rules
- Defining American English Dialects
- Defining Death
- Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
- Demonstrating Invalidity
- Demonstrative Adjectives & Pronouns
- Descriptivism: How Grammar Really Works
- Detecting Clues
- Developing Ideas
- Developing Your Child's Emotional Intelligence
- Development of Painting - Tempera and Oils
- Developmental Delay
- Dharma in the Bhagavad Gita
- Did Jesus Think He Was God?
- Dido's Problem
- Discovering Middle East Oil
- Discovering Mycenae and Knossos
- Discovering Your Roots: An Introduction to Genealogy
- Discovering the Maya
- Distance, Midpoints, and Folding Ties
- Distressed-Asset Investors: Tepper, Klarman
- Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
- Do Special Neurons Enable Social Life?
- Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
- Do You Have 5 Independent Senses?
- Do You Only Use 10% of Your Brain?
- Do You Perceive the World as It Really Is?
- Documenting Biodiversity
- Does God Define the Good?
- Does Happiness Define the Good?
- Does Reason Define the Good?
- Does Technology Make You Stupid?
- Does Your Brain Shut Down during Sleep?
- Dos and Don'ts of Writing History
- Drawing - Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media
- Drive-By Photography: Travel Photos
- Drones, Drones Everywhere
- Drought, Heat Waves, and Dust Storms
- Duck, Duck, Comma, and Duck
- Dvork: From the New World Symphony
- Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI - The Beginning of the End
- Dynasty XIX Begins
- Dynasty XXI - Egypt Divided
- Dynasty XXII - Egypt United
- Dynasty XXV - The Nubians Have Their Day
- Dynasty XXVI - The Saite Period
- Dynasty XXVII - The Persians
- EFilmclipses, Comets, and Omens
- Earliest History of the Indian Subcontinent
- Early Archaeology in Mesopotamia
- Early Highland Maya - Izapa to Kaminaljuyu
- Early Mediterranean Civilizations
- Early Plays of J. M. Synge
- Early Renaissance - Humanism Emergent
- Earth and the Ether - A Crisis in Physics
- East Germany’s Stasi State
- East India Company in Yemen
- Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body
- Echoes of the Past in Mexico
- Economics and Society under the Raj
- Edward Bellamy and Utopian Activism
- Effective Acupuncture
- Eggplant: Italian, Chinese, and Japanese
- Egypt, Europe, and the Suez Canal
- Egypt: Divine Rule in the Black Land
- Einstein to the Rescue
- Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution
- El Nino and Cycles of Extreme Weather
- Electricity
- Elementary Math Isn't Elementary
- Elements of a Good Case
- Elijah, the Troubler of Israel
- Emergency Stress Management
- Emerging Stress Management Technology
- Emotional Aging
- Emotional Influences on Decision Making
- Emotions: Where Mind and Body Meet
- Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Needs for Transportation
- Energy Sources
- Energy Storage Technologies
- Energy Trends
- Energy and Human Civilization
- English Grammar Boot Camp
- English grammar boot camp, Re phrasing
- English in America
- Enigmas of Everyday Objects
- Enigmatic West Mexico and Shaft Tombs
- Enter the Quantum
- Epic History: Mahabharata
- Epic Literature: Ramayana
- Epic Snowfall and the Lake Effect
- Epictetus
- Equidistance—A Focus on Distance
- Error Types, Systematic Debugging, Exceptions
- Escaping Contradiction - Simultaneity Is Relative
- Essayists as Poets: Tapping into Imagery
- Essentials of a Persuasive Rebuttal
- Esther, Daniel, and Life under Empire
- Ethnicity and American English
- Europe’s Right to Be Forgotten
- Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions
- Event-Driven Programming
- Everyday Yoga
- Everything in This Lecture Is False
- Evolution’s Role in Nonverbal Communication
- Excavating Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Exotic Vegetables
- Explorations with Pi
- Exploring Geometric Constructions
- Exploring Special Quadrilaterals
- Expressionism - Empathy and Emotion
- Extending Your Family Tree Overseas
- Extreme Humidity, Rain, and Fog
- Extreme Weather Is Everywhere
- Ezekiel on Abandonment and Homecoming
- Factoring Trinomials
- Failing to Connect the Dots on 9/11
- Fall of Granada
- Fall of the Rebel Angels (Book 12)
- Fallacies in Your Opponent's Arguments
- Fallacies in Your Opponent's Research
- Fallacies of Cause and Effect
- Fallacies of Faulty Authority
- Fallacies of Irrelevance
- Famous Romans
- Famous Romans, Episode 14, Cicero
- Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere
- Feeling with Our Eyes - Texture and Light
- Feet: Separate Empty from Full
- Female-Centered Mystery and Suspense
- Fever
- Fewer Octopuses or Less Octopi?
- Field Greens and Cooking Greens
- Files and Strings
- Filling the Gap between Dimensions
- Find Your Humorous Voice
- Finnegans Wake
- First Contact with Europe in Mesoamerica
- First- & Second-Declension Pronouns
- First-Declension Masculine Nouns
- First-Declension Nouns
- First-Order Predicate Logic
- Fisher and Price: The Growth-Stock Investors
- Five Ideas for Successful Landscape Photos
- Five Stages of Mastery
- Flash Floods and Deadly Moving Water
- Focus on Your Audience
- Folding and Conics
- Food Essays: My Grandmother’s Recipe Box
- Forming and Using Infinitives
- Forrest Yoga
- Fossil Fuel Energy
- Four Great American Churches
- Four Kinds of Light in Landscapes
- Four Women Who Moved Financial Markets
- Francis Crick and Binding in the Brain
- Freedom and Law at Mount Sinai
- Freedom and the Law in Paul’s Letters
- French Invasion of Algeria
- From English in America to American English
- From the Aztecs to Future Archaeology
- Frontiers of Mesoamerican Archeology
- Fruits Masquerading as Vegetables
- Functions and Abstraction
- Funnest Lecture Ever
- Gaelic Ireland’s Fall
- Gaius Flaminius
- Gaius Julius Caesar
- Game Design with Functions
- Games with Strange Loops
- Gandhi's Moral-Political Philosophy
- Gay and Lesbian Mystery and Suspense
- Genealogy Online - Gems and Junk
- Genetics - Born to Be an Addict?
- Geolocation
- Geometry
- Geometry—Ancient Ropes and Modern Phones
- George Orwell and Totalitarian Dystopia
- George Soros’s $10 Billion Currency Play
- Geothermal Energy
- Getting Your Best Wildlife Photo
- Getting the Most out of Checkups
- Giving Ideas Legs
- Glinka: A Life for the Tsar
- Gods Who Were Human in Ancient Judaism
- Going Baroque - North versus South
- Going, Going, Went
- Good Stress Helps You Handle All Stress
- Gorecki: Symphony No. 3
- Gottschalk: The Union
- Graph Search and a Word Game
- Graphing Linear Equations, Part 1
- Graphing Linear Equations, Part 2
- Graphing Radical Functions
- Graphing Rational Functions, Part 1
- Graphing Rational Functions, Part 2
- Graphs and Trees
- Great Churches of Russia
- Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
- Greco-Roman Gods Who Became Human
- Greek 101
- Greek Gods, Philosophy, and Science
- Groundbreaking Mindfulness Programs
- Growing Up Isn't Easy--Facing Impermanence
- Growing up Social in the Digital Age
- Guadalupe and the Cathedral of Mexico City
- Guided Imagery, Hypnosis, and Spirituality
- Gödel Proves the Unprovable
- H.G. Wells and Utopian Science Fiction
- Hacking, Espionage, and Surveillance
- Hadrian
- Hagia Sophia
- Halo Effects and Choice
- Handel: Water Music
- Hannibal
- Happiness and Politics (Book 19)
- Happiness: A Fickle Queen
- Harmony Is the Ultimate Goal
- Harry Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory
- Haydn: Mass in the Time of War
- Heat
- Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion
- Heaven and Hell Can Be Other People
- Heaven: The Self Redeemed (Book 22)
- Herbal Supplements
- Herbs and Blossoms for an Elegant Dinner
- Hidden Clues in Vocal Tones