Robert M. Hazen Audio & Video

This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen.

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth.

These 18 lucid essays on chemistry, physics, geology, astronomy and biology will help listeners comprehend today's science news....

In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind....

Four billion years ago, the infant Earth was a seething cauldron of erupting volcanoes, raining meteors, and hot noxious gases, totally devoid of life. But a relatively short time later—100 to 200 million years—the planet was teeming with primitive organisms. What happened?

This course provides a clear and bracing overview of the entire scientific world from the laws of motion first formulated 300 years ago by Sir Isaac Newton to the latest marvels of contemporary genetic research.