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		<title>Today&#8217;s Financial Crisis in a Historical Mirror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economist and blogger extraordinaire Brad DeLong takes a whirlwind tour of economic history in his recent talk, Today&#8217;s Financial Crisis in a Historical Mirror (weblink).
First comes the tale of the Panic of 1825. As DeLong tells it, this was the first time a central bank (Bank of England) intervened to avert a financial crisis by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2240&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We think what we speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lera Boroditsky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each language has a toolkit to help us learn what to pay attention to.
So argues Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky during this episode of the Stanford University radio show Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) (website, iTunes).
Boroditsky studies how the languages we use influence the way we think. And she&#8217;s come up with some startling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2235&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt and the New Testament</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale University religion professor Dale Martin has some words of warning for the students in his course Introduction to New Testament History and Literature (website, iTunes):
&#8220;De omnibus dubitandum.&#8221;
Say it loud, he tells his students.  Say it with feeling.  &#8220;Say it tonight, before you go to sleep. Say it in the morning, when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2225&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to find the good stuff on iTunes U</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have asked how I find the good stuff on iTunes U. After all, a lot of colleges offer mainly PR fluff, like virtual campus tours and welcoming speeches by the dean of students.
So, here are my secrets.  Every few days I do some of the following.
1. Survey the main iTunes U [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2212&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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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>Archaeologist Isabelle Pafford teaches new course</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/archaeologist-isabelle-pafford-teaches-new-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
University of Santa Clara archaeologist Isabelle Pafford is back with a new course about heroic narratives, Heroes &#38; Heroism (iTunes). The course covers heroic figures in ancient works like the Iliad, the Gilgamesh epic, and the Bhagavad Gita, and explores the historical background behind these tales.
Pafford has many fans among my readers who have praised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2197&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Americans hate government</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/why-americans-hate-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/10-new-free-courses-at-yale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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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
Global Problems of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2190&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of free books in your pocket</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/thousands-of-free-books-in-your-pocket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barnes and Noble eReader]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stanza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months I have become quite addicted to my silvery iPod Touch, Apple&#8217;s palm-sized iPod with a 3 x 5&#8243; video screen. My iTouch was a freebie bonus when my husband bought an iMac and the big surprise for me was how much I enjoyed reading books on its tiny screen.
While it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2177&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music at McGill U</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/music-at-mcgill-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anton Kuerti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to hear great musicians and musicologists talk about the music they love?  Check out Music (website, iTunes), a  video podcast from Montreal&#8217;s McGill University.
Unlike a lot of academic podcasts, these videos have great production values: beautiful camera-work and high fidelity sound. You can listen to members of McGill&#8217;s faculty and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2166&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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