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Ayn Rand: goddess of the market
She was born Alisa Rosenbaum, the eldest daughter in a haute-bourgeois Russian Jewish family that was ruined by the 1918 revolution. When she came to the United States in 1926, she reinvented herself … more →
The Do It Yourself Scholar
Ayn Rand: goddess of the market
Dara wrote 4 days ago: She was born Alisa Rosenbaum, the eldest daughter in a haute-bourgeois Russian Jewish family that wa … more →
Reading Homer as an anthropologist
Dara wrote 1 week ago: What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primar … more →
Unwanted side effects of democracy
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Dara wrote 1 week ago: Maybe it’s the legacy of the Cold War — all of those years of being the bastion of freed … more →
The Cold War is history
Dara wrote 1 week ago: Many conditions were necessary for the end of the Cold War to happen as it did. In an academic confe … more →
Today's Financial Crisis in a Historical Mirror
Dara wrote 2 weeks ago: Economist and blogger extraordinaire Brad DeLong takes a whirlwind tour of economic history in his r … more →
We think what we speak
Dara wrote 3 weeks ago: Each language has a toolkit to help us learn what to pay attention to. So argues Stanford psychology … more →
Doubt and the New Testament
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Dara wrote 3 weeks ago: Yale University religion professor Dale Martin has some words of warning for the students in his cou … more →
How to find the good stuff on iTunes U
Dara wrote 4 weeks ago: Some of you have asked how I find the good stuff on iTunes U. After all, a lot of colleges offer mai … more →
Why we stopped foraging and started farming
Dara wrote 4 weeks ago: The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars ar … more →
Archaeologist Isabelle Pafford teaches new course
Dara wrote 1 month ago: University of Santa Clara archaeologist Isabelle Pafford is back with a new course about heroic narr … more →
10 new free courses at Yale
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Dara wrote 1 month ago: Yale’s excellent Open Yale Courses website just got even better. Ten new free courses are now … more →
Music at McGill U
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Dara wrote 1 month ago: Do you want to hear great musicians and musicologists talk about the music they love? Check out Musi … more →
Freud was wrong about catharsis
Dara wrote 1 month ago: Why does the “talking cure” pioneered by Sigmund Freud and his students help relieve anx … more →
Two great new anthropology classes
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Dara wrote 1 month ago: MMW1 Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed), Tara Carter, UC San Diego. UCSD is presenting … more →
Are we a 'touch-starved' culture?
Dara wrote 1 month ago: UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner thinks we Americans are definitely touch-deprived. In lectu … more →
Treasure trove of courses at UCSD
Dara wrote 1 month ago: University of California San Diego is offering a record 63 courses available for free download on it … more →
Human happiness
Dara wrote 1 month ago: UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner is the real deal — the kind of professor I wis … more →
Justice course from Harvard
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Dara wrote 1 month ago: You’ve probably seen the Socratic method at work in the give-and-take of a small classroom. Th … more →
When the modern world began
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Dara wrote 2 months ago: For much of human history, most people lived in the world of poverty and hard labor described by tha … more →
