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1. 

   1. Love Is In the Air - 6 Lectures

   • Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

     By Paul Bloom Yale / Psychology

   • Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

     By Paul Bloom Yale / Psychology

   • Poetry and Marriage

     By John Rogers Yale /

   • Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot

     By Benjamin Polak Yale / Political Science
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2. 

   2. Living a Good Life - 3 Lectures

   • The Good Life: Happiness

     By Paul Bloom Yale / Psychology

   • A Person in the World of People: Morality

     By Paul Bloom Yale / Psychology

   • How to Live Given the Certainty of Death

     By Shelly Kagan Yale / Philosophy
3. 

   3. Wars Throughout History - 7 Lectures

   • The Origins of World War I

     By John Merriman Yale / History

   • Trench Warfare

     By John Merriman Yale / History

   • The Persian Wars

     By Donald Kagan Yale / History

   • The Peloponnesian War, Part I

     By Donald Kagan Yale / History
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4. 

   4. The Nature of Evil - 6 Lectures

   • Ethics in Business

     By Kim Polese Stanford / Entrepreneurship

   • Machiavelli, The Prince, cont.

     By Steven B. Smith Yale / Philosophy

   • Dying Alone; The Badness of Death, Part I

     By Shelly Kagan Yale / Philosophy

   • The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account

     By Shelly Kagan Yale / Philosophy
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5. 

   5. First Day of Freshman Year - 4 Lectures

   • Introduction to Computer Programming

     By Mehran Sahami Stanford / Engineering

   • Introduction to Psychology

     By Paul Bloom Yale / Psychology

   • Measurements of Space and Time

     By Walter Lewin MIT / Physics

   • Introduction to Biology

     By Robert A. Weinberg MIT / Biology
6. 

   6. Money Makes the World Go Round - 6 Lectures

   • Bluffing Millions in Financial Backing

     By Peter Diamandis Stanford / Entrepreneurship

   • Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow

     By Guy Kawasaki Stanford / Entrepreneurship

   • Passion vs. Money

     By Guy Kawasaki Stanford / Entrepreneurship

   • Importance of Money

     By Shai Agassi Stanford / Entrepreneurship
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7. 

   7. You Are What You Eat - 7 Lectures

   • Digestive System II

     By Marian Diamond Berkeley / Biology

   • Muscular System V; Digestive System I

     By Marian Diamond Berkeley / Biology

   • Defining the JetBlue Experience

     By David Neeleman Stanford / Entrepreneurship

   • Cafes and the Culture of Drink

     By John Merriman Yale / History
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8. 

   8. The Sound of Music - 7 Lectures

   • Traveling Waves and Standing Waves (Musical Instruments)

     By Walter Lewin MIT / Physics

   • Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes

     By Walter Lewin MIT / Physics

   • MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies

     By Terry Winograd Stanford / Computer Science

   • ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language

     By Scott Klemmer Stanford / Computer Science
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9. 

   9. Understanding The Financial Crisis - 7 Lectures

   • Origins of the Financial Mess

     By Alan Blinder Princeton / Economics

   • Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part I

     By Lawrence Summers Yale / Entrepreneurship

   • Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis, Part II

     By Lawrence Summers Yale / Entrepreneurship

   • Private Equity and the Financial Crisis

     By Stephen Schwarzman Yale / Economics
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10. 

    10. Laws of Nature - 5 Lectures

    • Natural Rights and Giving Them Up

      By Michael Sandel Harvard / Philosophy

    • Newton's Three Laws

      By Walter Lewin MIT / Physics

    • Kepler's Laws

      By Ramamurti Shankar Yale / Physics

    • The Sovereign State: Hobbes, Leviathan

      By Steven B. Smith Yale / Political Science
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