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. :)
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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. :)