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Birth of the Gothic: Abbot Suger and the Ambulatory at St. Denis. Two Royal Figures (Saljuq Period). Last Judgment Tympanum, Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun. Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. Virgin from Ger. Wise and Foolish Virgins, Sant Quirze de Pedret. Coronation Mantle. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus. Basilica of Santa Prassede (Praxedes). Santa Sabina. Byzantine Art: Justinian and His Attendants. Historiated Capitals, Church of Sant Miquel, Camarasa (Noguera). Santa Maria Maggiore. Ivory panel with Archangel. Berlinghieri's St. Francis Altarpiece. Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres. Ilkhanid Mihrab. Hebrew Astrolabe. Pre-Columbian Cup.

An introduction to physics in the context of everyday objects.

Behind every mouse click and touch-screen tap, there is a computer program that makes things happen. This course introduces the fundamental building blocks of programming and teaches you how to write fun and useful programs using the Python language.

This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity, or have we moved beyond the modern to the postmodern?

As a society and individually, we use energy every moment of our lives to improve our quality of life. Energy 101 will develop the big picture and connect the details of our energy use, technology, infrastructure, impact, and future.

The resources available to individuals and society and the prices of goods in the market shape our choices - even about the food we eat and the weight at which we live. This course explores the economic motivation for consumer choice and the economic role of government in markets related to obesity.

Learn about the wide range of contraceptive methods, and the public health implications related to access to information and choices about reproductive health.

Videos attempting to grasp a little bit about our Universe (many of the topics associated with "Big History"). Scale of Earth and Sun. Scale of Solar System. Scale of Distance to Closest Stars. Scale of the Galaxy. Intergalactic Scale. Hubble Image of Galaxies. Big Bang Introduction. Radius of Observable Universe. (Correction) Radius of Observable Universe. Red Shift. Cosmic Background Radiation. Cosmic Background Radiation 2. Cosmological Time Scale 1. Cosmological Time Scale 2. Four Fundamental Forces. Birth of Stars. Becoming a Red Giant. White and Black Dwarfs. A Universe Smaller than the Observable. Star Field and Nebula Images. Parallax in Observing Stars. Stellar Parallax. Stellar Distance Using Parallax. Stellar Parallax Clarification. Parsec Definition. Hubble's Law. Lifecycle of Massive Stars. Supernova (Supernovae). Supernova clarification. Black Holes. Cepheid Variables 1. Why Cepheids Pulsate. Why Gravity Gets So Strong Near Dense Objects. Supermassive Black Holes. Quasars. Quasar Correction. Galactic Collisions. Earth Formation. Beginnings of Life. Ozone Layer and Eukaryotes Show Up in the Proterozoic Eon. Biodiversity Flourishes in Phanerozoic Eon. First living things on land clarification. Plate Tectonics-- Difference between crust and lithosphere. Structure of the Earth. Plate Tectonics -- Evidence of plate movement. Plate Tectonics -- Geological Features of Divergent Plate Boundaries. Plate Tectonics-- Geological features of Convergent Plate Boundaries. Plates Moving Due to Convection in Mantle. Hawaiian Islands Formation. Compositional and Mechanical Layers of the Earth. Seismic Waves. Why S-Waves Only Travel in Solids. Refraction of Seismic Waves. The Mohorovicic Seismic Discontinuity. How we know about the Earth's core. Pangaea. Scale of the Large. Scale of the Small. Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 1. Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 2. Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 3. Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 4. Detectable Civilizations in our Galaxy 5. Human Evolution Overview. Understanding Calendar Notation. Correction Calendar Notation. Development of Agriculture and Writing. Introduction to Light. Seasons Aren't Dictated by Closeness to Sun. How Earth's Tilt Causes Seasons. Milankovitch Cycles Precession and Obliquity. Are Southern Hemisphere Seasons More Severe?. Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later. What Causes Precession and Other Orbital Changes. Apsidal Precession (Perihelion Precession) and Milankovitch Cycles. Firestick Farming. Carbon 14 Dating 1. Carbon 14 Dating 2. Potassium-Argon (K-Ar) Dating. K-Ar Dating Calculation. Chronometric Revolution. Collective Learning. Land Productivity Limiting Human Population. Energy Inputs for Tilling a Hectare of Land. Random Predictions for 2060.

Behavioral economics couples scientific research on the psychology of decision making with economic theory to better understand what motivates financial decisions. In A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior, you will learn about some of the many ways in which we behave in less than rational ways, and how we might overcome our shortcomings. You’ll also learn about cases where our irrationalities work in our favor, and how we can harness these human tendencies to make better decisions.

Networked Life will explore recent scientific efforts to explain social, economic and technological structures -- and the way these structures interact -- on many different scales, from the behavior of individuals or small groups to that of complex networks such as the Internet and the global economy.

Each of our cells contains nearly identical copies of our genome, which provides instructions that allow us to develop and function. This course serves as an introduction to the main laboratory and theoretical aspects of genomics and is divided into themes: genomes, genetics, functional genomics, systems biology, single cell approaches, proteomics, and applications.

This course is about building 'web-intelligence' applications exploiting big data sources arising social media, mobile devices and sensors, using new big-data platforms based on the 'map-reduce' parallel programming paradigm. In the past, this course has been offered at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as well as the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi.

Understanding and using negative numbers. Negative Numbers Introduction. Ordering Negative Numbers. Adding Negative Numbers. Adding integers with different signs. Adding/Subtracting negative numbers. Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers. Dividing Positive and Negative Numbers. Why a Negative Times a Negative is a Positive.

Learn about the most effective data analysis methods to solve problems and achieve insight.

An Introduction to Contemporary Art. Why is this Art? Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans. Art as Concept: In Advance of the Broken Arm. Why Is That Important? Looking at Jackson Pollock. Art & Context: Monet's Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich's White on White. Representation & Abstraction: Millais's Ophelia and Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis. Interpreting Contemporary Art. Big Questions in Modern & Contemporary Art. Matisse, Luxe, calme et volupt

Multiplying and dividing positive and negative whole numbers, understanding place value, and rounding numbers. Number line 1. Number line 1. Basic Multiplication. Multiplying 1-digit numbers. Multiplication 2: The Multiplication Tables. Example: Ways to represent multiplication. Multiplication 3: 10,11,12 times tables. Division 1. Basic division. 1-digit division. Example: Expressing division in multiple ways. Comparing with multiplication exercise. Comparing with multiplication. Example: 1-digit multiplication word problem. Multiplication word problem example 1. Division word problem example 1. Multiplication and division word problems. Multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplying by multiples of 10. Multiplying by multiples of 10. 2-digit times 1-digit number. 2 digit times 1 digit example (no carrying). 3 digit times 1 digit example (no carrying). Multiplication without carrying. 2 digit times 1 digit example. 3 digit times 1 digit example. 4 digit times 1 digit example. Multiplication with carrying. 2-digit times a 2-digit number. Example: 2-digit times 2-digit. Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits. Multiple Digit Numbers. Multi-digit multiplication. Multiplication estimation example. Multiplication 7: Old video giving more examples. Introduction to long division. Multi-digit division without remainders. Introduction to remainders. Long division with remainder example. More long division without and with remainders. Division with remainders. Dividing by a two digit number. Division by 2 digits. Multi-digit division. Level 4 division. Lattice Multiplication. Why Lattice Multiplication Works. Partial Quotient Division. Partial Quotient Method of Division 2. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 1. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 2. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 3. Multi-step word problems with whole numbers. Understanding multiplication through area models. Area model for multiplication. Number line 1. Number line 1. Basic Multiplication. Multiplying 1-digit numbers. Multiplication 2: The Multiplication Tables. Example: Ways to represent multiplication. Multiplication 3: 10,11,12 times tables. Division 1. Basic division. 1-digit division. Example: Expressing division in multiple ways. Comparing with multiplication exercise. Comparing with multiplication. Example: 1-digit multiplication word problem. Multiplication word problem example 1. Division word problem example 1. Multiplication and division word problems. Multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplication and division word problems 2. Multiplying by multiples of 10. Multiplying by multiples of 10. 2-digit times 1-digit number. 2 digit times 1 digit example (no carrying). 3 digit times 1 digit example (no carrying). Multiplication without carrying. 2 digit times 1 digit example. 3 digit times 1 digit example. 4 digit times 1 digit example. Multiplication with carrying. 2-digit times a 2-digit number. Example: 2-digit times 2-digit. Multiplying 2 digits by 2 digits. Multiple Digit Numbers. Multi-digit multiplication. Multiplication estimation example. Multiplication 7: Old video giving more examples. Introduction to long division. Multi-digit division without remainders. Introduction to remainders. Long division with remainder example. More long division without and with remainders. Division with remainders. Dividing by a two digit number. Division by 2 digits. Multi-digit division. Level 4 division. Lattice Multiplication. Why Lattice Multiplication Works. Partial Quotient Division. Partial Quotient Method of Division 2. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 1. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 2. Multi step word problems with whole numbers exercise 3. Multi-step word problems with whole numbers. Understanding multiplication through area models. Area model for multiplication.

Learn about women’s roles in the U.S. civil rights struggles of the 1890s to the 1990s.

Why write programs when the computer can instead learn them from data? In this class you will learn how to make this happen, from the simplest machine learning algorithms to quite sophisticated ones. Enjoy!

This is a organic chemistry course surveying introductory topics in structure and reactivity with an emphasis on structural fundamentals including electronic structure, conformation and stereochemistry.

For anyone who would like to apply their technical skills to creative work ranging from video games to art installations to interactive music, and also for artists who would like to use programming in their artistic practice.