This course explores the physical processes that control Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and climate. Quantitative methods for constructing mass and energy budgets. Topics include clouds, rain, severe storms, regional climate, the ozone layer, air pollution, ocean currents and productivity, the seasons, El Niño, the history of Earth’s climate, global warming, energy, and water resources.
Podcast Categories: Science & Medicine
Fundamentals of Physics, II – Audio – Ramamurti Shankar
This is a continuation of the introductory course on the principles and methods of physics for students who have good preparation in physics and mathematics. This course covers electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum mechanics.
Statistics Made Simple – Brad R. Fulton, PhD
This course introduces the statistical methods used to analyze data about society with an emphasis on the application of those methods. This course will help you to be a more informed and critical reader of academic research, public opinion polling, and advertisement claims that present statistical evidence.
Textbook: Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data (https://bit.ly/statsbooklock5)
Students can use the Promotion Code “LOCK5” for a 10% discount
Instructors can request a free Digital Evaluation Copy
Lecture slides and course material can be obtained by emailing bradrfulton@gmail.com
Ocean Lectures – Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
Explore the ocean through a collection of Smithsonian sponsored lectures from scientists and ocean enthusiasts who discuss current research and how it is helping to change the tide in ocean science and conservation.
Exercise Science + Wellness – Charles Corbin; Department of Kinesiology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University
This course was designed to facilitate and standardize the distribution of undergraduate course requirements in Exercise and Sports Science throughout Arizona Community College system. It provides a brief overview of the field of Exercise Science & Wellness, as well as specific information to this area of study at Arizona State University.
Astronomy 001 – Dr. Scott T. Miller, Dr. Mercedes T. Richards, & Stephen L. Redman
Astronomy 001, Section 005 is a web-based course, complete with online presentations, interactive media, and video demonstrations. This course covers everything from mankind’s first understanding of the heavens out to other planets, galaxies, and the edge of the known Universe!
Cardiovascular Grand Rounds – Emory SOM, Division of Cardiology
These are high quality archived video lectures from a variety of cardiovascular topics available for Online viewing. These lectures are given by Faculty from Emory and outside of Emory. Please visit http://medicine.emory.edu/cardiology/education/cardiology-cme.html for more information.
Prostate Cancer Update
Featuring one-on-one interviews conducted by Dr Neil Love, this series bridges the gap between research and patient care by providing urologists and radiation oncologists ongoing access to the perspectives and opinions of national and international prostate cancer research leaders.
Organic Chemistry – Audio – J. Michael McBride
(CHEM 125) This is the first semester in a two-semester introductory course focused on current theories of structure and mechanism in organic chemistry, their historical development, and their basis in experimental observation. The course is open to freshmen with excellent preparation in chemistry and physics, and it aims to develop both taste for original science and intellectual skills necessary for creative research.
This course was recorded in Fall 2008.
Understanding Human Behavior – Santa Fe Institute
Our multidisciplinary, quantitative lens can help deepen our understanding of perhaps the most complex of complex systems, namely, human behavior. The emergence, persistence, and demise of social institutions and their co-evolution with distinctive human behaviors – such as altruistic cooperation, out-group hostility and adaptive learning – are typically overlooked in standard economic and other behavioral science models. In line with the well-established scientific tradition of the Institute, this research is characterized by (a) its trans-disciplinary nature, (b) its use of nonlinear dynamical systems to study the explicit out-of-equilibrium dynamics of the relevant processes, (c) and sustained interaction between mathematical modeling and well-defined empirical case studies and problems of potentially great contemporary practical relevance.
NOTE: Please excuse the production quality of some of our older videos. They were transferred from our video tape archive.
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