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Bill Stokoe's Legacy
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes her early experience with transformative sign language linguist Bill Stokoe.
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Asian Values?
Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.
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Harnessing a Crisis
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.
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Discovering Buddhism
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, despite being born not far from where the Buddha lived and preached, he had to make a special effort to learn about Buddhism.
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Active Learning: Cornell Notes
Most students write simple linear notes. But there is a way to improve the quality of note-taking that makes it more active, inquiring and revision-friendly, without radically changing how you take notes. It's called the Cornell Method...
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How I Read and Organize Academic (Machine Learning) Papers
How I Read and Organize Academic (Machine Learning) Papers
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Five Themes of Geography
Five Themes of Geography identifies the five themes of geography by examining location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.
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Unexpected Windows
Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth) describes the benefits of engaging in intellectual history.
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Language and History
Harvard University historian David Armitage emphasizes the natural link between linguistic terms and historical and cultural context.
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Uncovering Meaning
Historian David Armitage, University of Harvard, relates how examining the historical evolution of key terms and phrases can uncover the many sedimented meanings associated with them, thereby pointing the way to deeper historical...
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Thinking It Through
Political scientist John Dunn, University of Cambridge, points out that in many ways democracy, civil liberties and capitalism actually oppose one another rather than reinforce each other, as many naively believe.
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Revolutionary Importance
Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart highlights two different aspects of the American Revolution: the struggle for national independence and the quest to establish a new form of government.
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Opening Up Sightlines
Intellectual historian Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College) gives us a personal taste of what intellectual history is uniquely qualified to address, and what attracts him to the field.
Señor Jordan
Spanish Present Subjunctive with Doubt, Denial & Disbelief - Practice 1
Spanish Present Subjunctive with Doubt, Denial & Disbelief - Practice 1
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Jeremy Utley - Demystifying Innovation
Jeremy is the Director of Executive Education at the d.school, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s School of Engineering, where he has earned multiple “favorite professor” distinctions from graduate programs. He holds a BBA with...
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Scientific Investigations Resulting in New Ideas
Scientific Investigations Resulting in New Ideas concludes that scientific investigations may result in new ideas of study.
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Theme
“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.
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Establishing Purpose and Organizing Ideas
Students will learn how to choose a purpose for their own writing by organizing their own essay ideas.
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The Modern Galileo
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, describes how, while he's not exactly aware of what exactly motivates him to write his popular books about physics, he clearly looks to Galileo as an inspiring role model.
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Fringe Benefits
Princeton historian of science Michael Gordin describes how being receptive to wacky, unorthodox ideas - up to a point - brings various benefits to our understanding of the world.
Tom Nicholas
Literary Texts: Introduction to Cultural Texts and Roland Barthes' From Work to Text
Roland Barthes' From Work to Text is a seminal essay which lays out why, in the humanities, we have come to refer to pieces of literature, films and many other things using the catch-all term "text". Because, we refer a lot to reading a...
Tom Nicholas
Marxist Literary Theory - WTF? An Introduction to Marxism and Culture
In this latest episode of What The Theory?, I hope to provide an introduction to Marxism, culture and Marxist Literary Criticism and Theory. We're going to begin with the economic theories of Marx and Engels, particularly their base and...