60 Second Lectures - Video
by Penn School of Arts and Sciences
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Description
Every spring and fall, SAS faculty take a minute out on Locust Walk to share their perspectives on topics ranging from human history and the knowable universe, to fractions and fly-fishing. While not every speaker makes it under the one-minute mark, they all deal with their chosen subjects with intellectual agility and wit.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoCrusading, Then and Now | -- | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoParticles from Proton Collisions in 60 Seconds | -- | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoEthnography in the Age of Supercrunching | -- | 4/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoThe Fundamental Nature of Consciousness | -- | 4/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoHypocrisy: How Evolution Guarantees Human Inconsistency | -- | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoDeath and Body Fluids (or Why Religion is Important) | -- | 10/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe Knowable Universe | -- | 10/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoThe Unknown | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBeyond the Founding Fathers | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoBrokeback Nation | -- | 8/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoDivided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different Angle | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoHow to Protect Civil Liberties While Protecting Against Terrorism | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoCrash | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe Difference Between Blues and Jazz | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLanguage Change in Philadelphia | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoWhat Makes a Poem a Poem | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoFreudian Time | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoHuman History | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoIntracellular Landfills | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoDown With Fractions! | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoThe Nature of Nature | -- | 9/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoFaust in Copenhagen | -- | 10/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoMajor Matters | -- | 10/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoWhy Supreme Court Decisions Are Hard to Read, and Why We Should Read Them Anyway | -- | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoChildren - the Pursuit of Happiness? | -- | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoIs It Wrong To Punish Prisoners? | -- | 9/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoOn the Stability of Life | -- | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury | -- | 9/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoWhen Poetry Gets the Blues | -- | 9/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoWhy Achievement Isn't "Normal" | -- | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoAnthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility | -- | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoChopin's Minute Waltz | -- | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoEconomics | -- | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoWriting the Right on What's 'Right' | -- | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoA Constitutional Moment: Freedom of Religion in One Minute | -- | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoAre humans still evolving? | -- | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoIs America Rome? Why Do You Ask? | -- | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoVirtuality and the (Real) Humanities | -- | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoWater and Future Climate Change | -- | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoThe Cosmos as a Microscope: Reading the Laws of Nature in the Night Sky | -- | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Chemistry and Geopolitics of the Rare Earth Elements | -- | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoWhat's the Matter with American Exceptionalism | -- | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 42 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Like life, always a surprise....
Some great, some not, some surprisingly dependent on this writer's mood at viewing time. Well worth the time, regardless.
A bit like life in the real world. Always a surprise, frankly.
Be warned, though, that the brevity of the one's that really resonate with you may drive you to spend far more than a minute diving into the topic; OK if you have the time; very much NOT OK when you only had a minute or two in the first place.
Enjoy!
More!
General information which circles the view of the speaker which generally cannot be agreed on all the time and shares insight and concern regarding lectures presented to the knowledgable public scholarship.
Hmmm
Now that was boring....
