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How to Speak and Write Correctly
by Joseph Devlin
Available on: Audio Download
This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not “properly”) create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with style.
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Introduction to Human Anatomy
by John K. Young
Available on: Audio Download
Learn about your body with this lecture delivered by Professor John K. Young on the axial skeleton of the human. Professor Young starts the lecture with some definitions of basic human anatomy terms.
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Amy Tan on Creativity
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.
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The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
Available on: Audio Download
The Law is one of the most important books ever written on the uses and abuses of law.
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The Soul in Depression
by Andrew Solomon
Available on: Audio Download
Nearly ten million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. As a society, we're increasingly aware of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis of depression and medical treatment for it.
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General Biology 1B
Available on: Podcast | Online Video
General Biology. Lectures include; Roots, Structure and Development...
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Podcasting
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio Download
Podcasting is a term used to describe a collection of technologies for automatically distributing audio and video programs over the internet using a publisher/subscriber model.
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The Wonders of Electricity and Magnetism
by Walter Lewin
Available on: Online Video
The inimitable Walter Lewin gives a literally hair-raising performance in this MIT Museum lecture/demonstration for learners young and old.
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Humanizing Medicine
by Thomas Moore
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture, Thomas Moore talks about his views on extending the scope of medicine beyond the scientific to include spirituality and deep matters of soul.
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LearnOutLoud.com's Focus on Language Learning
Available on: Audio Download
Here the guys give you an overview of the major language learning programs available on audio, and even take a crack at learning a few phrases on the air!
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Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
by Oliver Sacks
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Neurologist Oliver Sacks discusses his newest book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
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Graduate Computer Architecture
by David Patterson
Available on: Online Video
Graduate survey of contemporary computer organizations
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MRI
by Laurie Hall
Available on: Online Video
Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a powerful means of not only distinguishing between different types of tissue but also of identifying whether the tissues are normal or diseased.
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Focus on Educational Innovation
by Charles Vest
Available on: Online Video
These MIT panelists discuss their efforts to expand the educational horizons of learners from K to well beyond 12 with new technological tools and resources.
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Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Available on: Audio Download
Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity...
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Book Writing for Fun and Profit
by Brian R. Scott
Available on: Audio Download
Book Writing for Fun and Profit (audio series) helps writers and authors publish and profit from their writing and achieve their dreams of becoming a respected book author.
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
by Nellie Bly
Available on: Audio Download
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York.
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Critical Condition: Health Care in America
by James Steele
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Investigative reporting team Donald Barlett and James Steele discuss Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program.
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Controlling the Public Mind
by Noam Chomsky
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Noam Chomsky's talk called "Controlling the Public Mind", taped March 1 1996, sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Labour and the Vancouver and District Labour Council.
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Gay Marriage Debate
by Evan Wolfson
Available on: Online Video
Pace Law School hosts a debate on gay marriage with David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage, and Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
by Frank McCourt
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Frank McCourt discusses his long-awaited book about how his 30-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.
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The Learning Edge
by Chris Mercogliano
Available on: Audio Download
This recording is a frank and fascinating conversation between Chris Mercogliano and Steven Harrison, two inspiring visionaries in the alternative education field.
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C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain
by Corbin Carnell
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Veritas Forums are university events that engage students and faculty in discussions about life's hardest questions and the relevance of Jesus Christ to all of life.
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
by Ken Robinson
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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Biology of Mood
by William Carlezon
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Between three and twelve percent of school-age children may suffer from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder…
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