Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.
Encompasses the increasingly important areas of viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases and understanding the complex interaction between humans and infectious agents.
How are people affected by overcrowding, traffic congestion, and noise? Why do people litter or vandalize their environments? How do buildings affect their occupants?
The second quarter of the three-quarter Biochemistry series, introducing the integration of the chemical knowledge gained about biological systems from fall quarter biochemistry.
The 19th Century saw the development of a mathematics profession with people earning their living from teaching, examining and researching and with the mathematical centre of gravity moving from France to Germany.
Professor Ken Hiltner surveys nearly 5000 thousand years of literature in order to explore the literary history of the relationship we have with our planet.
This is a short course on the History of Mathematics, in 12 lectures. We roughly follow John Stillwell's book `Mathematics and its History' (Springer, 3rd ed).
Professor J.J. Binney explains quantum amplitudes, quantum interference, and the concept of a "quantum state".
This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking.
This course provides students with the basic tools for evaluating data from studies in the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology.