...so that's why Robert Greenberg is such a celebrity.
I'd love the content of his courses, but I've sat through (thanks to buying subscription series that included them) his live lectures and my word the man is annoying.
I know you have discussed these in the past, but if you have any caveats or suggestions, that would be interesting.
The principle of the thing is enticing, but I don't want to get e.g. the early civilizations one and end up shouting at the iPod "What about X? Huh? Huh?"---or any other subject I've read recent work in.
"Ethics" is interesting but possibly too limited (Aristotle only, hm).
Maybe the "how to argue" one would be a good place to start...
If possible, GET ALAN KORS ON INTELLECTUAL HISTORY. Or on anything. I took his classes at U. Penn and the man changed my entire life and everything about the contents of my head. Best classes I have ever taken.
R has actually met and talked to the cellist from the Alexander Quartet, Sandy Wilson, who swears that Greenberg knows his subject really well and if you can just get past the schtick he has to use to keep the little old ladies who go to those things from getting bored, he has interesting things to say.
I enjoy Robert Greenberg, but (a) I do tend to fade out of lectures regularly unless the speaker is entertaining enough to keep my attention and (b) I know very little about the subject. Mom and I make fun of him. :) They've got a video sample of him up, so you can see if you'd make it through his lectures - the audio lectures are the voice track from the video ones.
My YOU MUST TRY THIS is Bob Brier's Egyptian stuff. I've heard him speak and sat next to him at an archaeology roundtable at a conference, and loved his enthusiasm.
Steven Novella's Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths is good, and Novella looks like Leslie Nielson so you just need to look at a picture of Nielson while listening and that's as good as the video. :) It's fairly basic however, and while I learned new things from it, I've been actively reading skeptical material for years so there wasn't a whole lot new to me.
Robert Sapolsky is interesting and funny if you're into neurobiology, or if you aren't and want to listen to more. His Stress and Your Body course is a lite version of his book Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers, so if you've read that you can skip the course.
I also like John McWhorter's lectures on language.
I have not yet listened to one of Bart Ehrman's courses on the history of Christianity and the Bible, but I've read two of his books and enjoyed them a lot (he started out as an Evangelical and lost his faith over the question of suffering, and his primary scholarly focus is the history of Christianity and Christian writings).
I also enjoyed Roberta Anding's Nutrition Made Clear lectures.
I'm only a few lectures in to How to Read and Understand Poetry and have enjoyed it so far. I've just bought Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything, mostly because I'm frustrated at not being able to say anything substantive about Elfquest in my posts, but haven't started it. :)
Holy Crap, they hate their customers. In this day and at our current level of technical development, it should not be necessary to install a *separate download manager* for some random commercial site to shift crap you *paid for* onto your computer. That's just heinous. Beyond heinous, it's offensive.
...Actually, what it is, is Microsoft/PC thinking. SAINT STEVE DOES NOT APPROVE. You do not start your relationship with the customer by annoying them with a badly-designed *file download* FFS.
Dammit! Yesterday I spent loads of money on textbooks and now I'm out of spare cash. They always seem to know when I can't even afford their sale prices. T_T
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I'd love the content of his courses, but I've sat through (thanks to buying subscription series that included them) his live lectures and my word the man is annoying.
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The principle of the thing is enticing, but I don't want to get e.g. the early civilizations one and end up shouting at the iPod "What about X? Huh? Huh?"---or any other subject I've read recent work in.
"Ethics" is interesting but possibly too limited (Aristotle only, hm).
Maybe the "how to argue" one would be a good place to start...
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R has actually met and talked to the cellist from the Alexander Quartet, Sandy Wilson, who swears that Greenberg knows his subject really well and if you can just get past the schtick he has to use to keep the little old ladies who go to those things from getting bored, he has interesting things to say.
So I might try one of his things too...
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My YOU MUST TRY THIS is Bob Brier's Egyptian stuff. I've heard him speak and sat next to him at an archaeology roundtable at a conference, and loved his enthusiasm.
Steven Novella's Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths is good, and Novella looks like Leslie Nielson so you just need to look at a picture of Nielson while listening and that's as good as the video. :) It's fairly basic however, and while I learned new things from it, I've been actively reading skeptical material for years so there wasn't a whole lot new to me.
Robert Sapolsky is interesting and funny if you're into neurobiology, or if you aren't and want to listen to more. His Stress and Your Body course is a lite version of his book Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers, so if you've read that you can skip the course.
I also like John McWhorter's lectures on language.
I have not yet listened to one of Bart Ehrman's courses on the history of Christianity and the Bible, but I've read two of his books and enjoyed them a lot (he started out as an Evangelical and lost his faith over the question of suffering, and his primary scholarly focus is the history of Christianity and Christian writings).
I also enjoyed Roberta Anding's Nutrition Made Clear lectures.
I'm only a few lectures in to How to Read and Understand Poetry and have enjoyed it so far. I've just bought Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything, mostly because I'm frustrated at not being able to say anything substantive about Elfquest in my posts, but haven't started it. :)
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...Actually, what it is, is Microsoft/PC thinking. SAINT STEVE DOES NOT APPROVE. You do not start your relationship with the customer by annoying them with a badly-designed *file download* FFS.
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