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36 big ideas.

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Co., ℗2014.

18 audio discs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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"There are everyday concepts, and then there are the big ideas-- ideas with the power to transform the way you think about your everyday world. Consider that tiny, one-dimensional strings could be the foundation of our entire physical universe. That the world's largest untranslated written language was made with strings and knots. That our brains prefer random rejection to always getting what we want. These are but a few of the riveting, eye-opening, and profound ideas you'll encounter in this illustrious collection of Great Courses lectures. Join us for an intriguing tour of 36 big ideas that give you an unrivaled opportunity to appreciate-- like never before-- science, history, language, economics, and much more"--Container.

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The great courses

Great courses (Compact disc)

Discoveries in science.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Audiobooks.

Teaching Company.

Thirty-six big ideas

Compact discs.

In three containers (19 cm.).

Various professors.

The Big Bang -- Astronomy -- Time's arrow -- Time travel -- String theory, membranes, and the multiverse -- Three faces of information -- The human asteroid -- What is the meaning of life? -- Psychology and free will -- What is existentialism? -- Infancy gospels -- The problem of pseudonymity -- Cosmic hub at Stonehenge -- Washington: failures and real accomplishments -- The Black Death -- Gutenberg's print revolution -- Mysteries of the Industrial Revolution -- A renaissance in the kitchen -- The Khipu -- Japanese, the world's most complex script -- The monomyths of Rank and Campbell -- Why texting is misunderstood -- The hard problem of consciousness -- Our changing brain -- The strange world of dreams -- What babies know -- Synesthesia: tasting color and seeing sound -- This is your brain on metaphors -- The ancient art of memory -- The pleasures and pains of "maybe" -- Stress and growth: echoes from the womb -- Frontiers of cancer treatment -- Harvey, discoverer of circulation -- The evolution of behavior -- When incentives backfire -- How emotions are intelligent.

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