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		<title>Why we stopped foraging and started farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars argue about why it happened, and propose three main conflicting theories.
These theories, and the difficulties in domesticating plants and animals are the subjects of lectures 14 and 15 in UCSD anthropologist Tara Carter&#8217;s great course, Prehistory and the Birth of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2205&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Americans hate government</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ronald Reagan said in 1981 &#8220;government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,&#8221; he was tapping into a long history of American suspicion of government.
UCLA political science professor Brian Walker has a theory about where that suspicion came from. He lays out his ideas in the Oct. 10 lecture (download [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2192&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 new free courses at Yale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale&#8217;s excellent Open Yale Courses website just got even better. Ten new free courses are now available for your viewing/listening pleasure. The offerings now total 25, with 21 cross-listed on Apple&#8217;s iTunes U.
Some of the new courses:

Introduction to New Testament History and Literature, Spring 2009
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food, Fall 2008
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		<title>Human happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner is the real deal &#8212; the kind of professor I wish I&#8217;d seen more often in my university days. Not only is he a cutting-edge researcher in the field of human emotion, he&#8217;s also a gifted teacher, who gives well organized, interesting lectures and who has a flair for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2082&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two promising psych courses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall 2009 semester at UC Berkeley is in full swing and I am newly returned from a trip to Europe. Here are a couple of promising courses I&#8217;ve been sampling as I&#8217;ve been recovering from jet lag.
Psychology of Dreams (website, feed).
Are dreams a window into the spirit world, a key to the unconscious or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2029&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming attractions at UC Berkeley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get out your notebooks.
The UC Berkeley podcast website  has begun posting its offerings for the 2009 Fall semester.  Classes start Aug. 26.
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		<title>Brush up on your Spanish / French</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/brush-up-on-your-spanish-french/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to spray some WD40 on my rusty Spanish and French.  I&#8217;ve been hunting around iTunes for some podcasts to help me remember the rhythms of the languages, and refresh my vocabulary.
Here are two that I&#8217;ve been enjoying.
Learn French by Podcast (website, iTunes )
Each podcast features a conversation that you might hear in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1991&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Structure of English Words</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/the-structure-of-english-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one is for you word nerds out there. Stanford linguist William Leben offers a lively romp through the history and structure of the English language in Structure of English Words (iTunes) on iTunes U.  Even if you hated grammar and diagramming sentences back in school, Leben may well get you hooked on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1958&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Yale Courses &#8212; now on iTunes U</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/open-yale-courses-now-on-itunes-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Yale Courses, 15 high quality Yale courses, have been available for more than a year on the Open Yale Courses website. Now you can also download 13 of them, in video and audio, on iTunes U. For the syllabi and transcripts you&#8217;ll still have to go to the website.
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		<title>Introduction to Biological Anthropology</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/introduction-to-biological-anthropology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 23:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Berkeley neurobiologist Terrence Deacon gives a rousing grand finale to his spring 2009 course Introduction to Biological Anthropology (website, feed).
The final three lectures explore the ways that our bodies and minds have been shaped by evolution, sometimes in ways that leave us poorly prepared for the artificial environments in which we now live.
He&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1822&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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