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Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Discover classical mathematics as an artistic and creative realm that contains some of the greatest ideas of human history, ideas that have shaped cultures. Explore the fourth dimension, coincidences, fractals, the allure of number and geometry, in understandable terms. No formulas, problems, equations, techniques and drills that remind us of school, but thinking that opens doors and minds and become an endless frontier of ideas to explore.
Publisher
Psychotherapy.net
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With multicultural psychology becoming increasingly prevalent in university programs, and a mandatory component of continuing education for many licensed professionals, author, educator and clinical psychologist, Travis Heath, PhD, invites us to consider that if everyone's doing multicultural awareness, then maybe nobody's doing multicultural awareness. What if, rather than focusing on presenting problems, symptoms, diagnoses and other traditional...
Publisher
Psychotherapy.net
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Clients who come to us feeling lonely, isolated, and depressed, often struggle because they are walled off from both their own feelings and from others in their lives. The key to helping these clients is to pay close attention to their relationship with you, the clinician, in real time — the “here-and-now.” Using and then discussing video clips from his first session with Heather, a sad, lonely, and self-critical client who craves caring and...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
If a quantum fluctuation gave rise to our Universe, must ours be the only one? Are others possible, perhaps even with different rules? This lecture examines reasons for suspecting the existence of other universes, though we do not know how to test for their presence.
8) Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition: Episode 11More Eclipse Tales
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Solar eclipses also come in annular and hybrid varieties, reflecting the varying distance of the Moon from Earth. A famous total solar eclipse in 1919 provided observational evidence for Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Supernovae come in several types, based primarily on their spectra. This lecture focuses on the important, hydrogen-deficient subclass called Type Ia, in which a white dwarf robs gas from its companion star and then becomes violently unstable.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Until recently, astronomers had no smoking gun to identify the precise location and cause of gamma-ray bursts. Now they have assembled an abundance of clues pointing to two separate mechanisms: the collapse of a massive star, and the merging of two neutron stars—in each case creating a black hole.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
The Universe can be thought of as expanding into a mathematical dimension to which we have no physical access. Even an infinite Universe can expand, becoming less dense. The expansion suggests that there was a hot, dense beginning long ago—a Big Bang.
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