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A parting message of thanks to all who have listened to this lecture series, and special thanks to all who have written me. Also, we detail how to get the video podcasts by going to the Colorado School of Mines site on iTunesU and navigating t
In this last lecture of our series, we look into the challenges that face our planet, biosphere, and species over the span of future deep time. The focus is on preserving intelligent life in the universe as long as possible, and what immediate
Since the scientific revolution the pace of scientific advance has only accelerated. Changes are going on in our understanding of the world, and of ourselves at a truly awesome pace. But along with the great advances we also have a rapidly in
The scientific revolution in all its gory detail. From the birth of Galileo to the death of Newton.
The crusades fizzle out as we start off in the 13th century. We begin to see more scientific learning in Europe as the learning of Islam seeps deeper into the Western psyche. There is a feel of exploration both in mind and in space. The exis
Science progresses in Islam, and then transfers to the west as a struggle for power takes place on the Iberian Peninsula between Christians and Moors. Power plays abound led by kings, emperors, caliphs, sultans, and popes. Such a male dominat
From Constantine founding a Christian Empire in Constantinople, to Islam pounding at its doors. Enjoy the Fall of Rome, while Buddhism fiddles in the east.
From the birth of Jesus until Constantine setting Christianity of the Holy Roman Empire. 17 B.C. to 325 A.D. The Rise and beginning of the fall of Rome.
Human history from 600BC to 17BC. It is a time of innovation in the arts, society, science, and religion. This is the first half of the Age of Great Beliefs and the Age of Classics.
The Near East is thrown in a tumult as raiding nomadic people make life harder there and even invade India, Greece, and Egypt. They bring with them gods of war and conquest but depending on what native culture they encounter, the outcomes are
The higher arts of civilization (reading, writing, mathematics, systematic observations of the heavens, kingly government, monumental architecture, priestly caste) break upon the scene to begin this week's podcast. We see the rise of the hiera
We travel from our "caveman" roots, through the deglaciation of the planet, and into the first signs of human civilization in the nuclear near east, leaving less than a minute of geologic time left to go.
With the advent of Homo sapiens on the planet we begin to see tremendous advancement in both technology and mythology. This lecture takes us from the earliest humans to the Cro-Magnon people in Western Europe and the demise of the Neanderthals
What is it that makes us human? What makes us different from other life forms? Today's lecture explores the geologic story that leads up to the evolution of our own species, and the significant changes that took place along the way.
In our Big Story this episode we cover the chilly Oligocene, and the warmer Miocene epochs. We will follow our ancestors from monkey like primates, to apes. The race is on between brains and bipedalism.
We start with the planet's biosphere recovering from K/T boundary extinction. Thus our story leaps from the "Age of Reptiles" to the "Age of Mammals". The Dawn of the Recent covers the Paleocene and Eocene epochs in which our ancestors become
We cover the entire last part of the Paleozoic Era. We start with the mighty Devonian Period. You will love the Devonian. We we cover the origin of land vertebrates and the effect of trees on the environment. We end with the formation of Pa
Our geoyear big story continues through the time period of the Ordovician and Silurian. This is the time period from 448 tp 416 million years ago, a time that saw , the rise of coral reefs, and a marked divergence in fish types.
We continue our Big Story by finishing up some notes on the Precambrian, including an overview of life in the Ediacaran Period. We then explore the geology and evolution of life in the Cambrian, and discuss the Cambrian Explosion and its impli
Our geoyear story continues through the oxygenation of the atmosphere, the development of sexual reproduction, and multicellular organisms from the single celled, asexually reproducing pond scum that dominated this planet for most of its histor
We start by discussing the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere. Then we explore fossil evidence for the first life and its implication for extraterrestrial life. We conclude with the leading ideas of abiogenesis, the creation
Our story continues with the formation of the solar system, the Earth, and the Moon. We cover most aspects of the Hadean Eon of geologic time.
My first attempt at a video podcast! Enjoy a musical tour of the universe while listening to my dad's favorite piece of music. We start by looking out from the perspective of the Earth, and then turn our vision around to look back at the Eart
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