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**Ajkula** · 12-19-2023, 06:52 PM

Whitney Wolfe Herd rewrote the rules when she founded Bumble Inc. Find your breakthrough idea and build the life and work you actually want.

When she launched a dating app that put women first, Whitney Wolfe Herd rewrote the rules of relationships and business. Now the mold-breaking tech founder and Bumble Inc. CEO teaches you to follow your ambition with confidence and become a true innovator. Make the first move at work, be your own kind of leader, build a viral brand, reboot your creativity, and redefine success. Or do all of the above, the way only you can.

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**Ajkula** · 12-19-2023, 06:56 PM

Acclaimed author Michael Pollan teaches you what he s spent decades researching: how to eat more ethically, healthfully, and sustainably.

For more than 30 years, award-winning journalist Michael Pollan has explored the intersection of humans and nature including groundbreaking probes of the food we eat. Now the NYT bestselling author of The Omnivore s Dilemma teaches you how to ditch fad diets and eat with intention. From following food chains to fixing dinner, learn where your food really comes from and make choices that reflect what s important to you.

Lessons in this online class include
Rethink Your Relationship With Food
Confront Barriers to Intentional Eating
Discover Where Your Food Comes From
Field Trip: City Slicker Farms
Face the True Cost of Industrial Meat
Follow Food Rules
Eat Food
Not Too Much
Eat Mostly Plants
Balance Coffee and Sugar Consumption
Stir Up a Passion for Cooking
Celebrate the Communal Meal

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**Ajkula** · 12-19-2023, 07:42 PM

Renowned scholar, linguist, and political activist Noam Chomsky explores the dark side of media. Learn to cut through propaganda, defend against manipulation, and control what you consume.

Dive into the invisible powers of media with Noam Chomsky. One of the most influential thinkers of our time, he s challenged the mainstream narratives of media, corporations, and governments for generations. Now he s connecting his long-standing theories to the issues we care most about today. Get his cutting insights into the powers and perils of social media, AI, and disinformation in a society set up to manipulate.

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 04:49 PM

Persuasion is a central element of our daily lives. Whether it is a politician angling for a vote, a business advertising a product, a parent asking a child to get dressed, or a friend suggesting a certain restaurant for dinner, we are constantly trying to persuade others to our point of view, and experiencing others attempts to persuade us.

Persuasion along with its cousins: propaganda, manipulation, and coercion has always been part of the human experience. The 20th and 21st centuries, however, have seen the rise of mass media and an explosion of digital messaging, making it critical for us to understand the tools and science of persuasion.

Today, not only do we need to be able to influence others, but we must be able to recognize when the techniques of persuasion are being used on us. Propaganda and Persuasion gives you a one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore the powerful, fascinating and occasionally dangerous world of influence. Taught by Professor Dannagal G. Young of the University of Delaware, these 12 eye-opening lectures arm you with the tools of effective communication and the insight to understand and perhaps resist persuasion in all its forms.

As you will discover, the domains of persuasion and propaganda include politics, advertising, relationships, public health, social media, and more. Professor Young walks you through each of these, beginning with a historical account of persuasion. Here you will

Go back to the time of Aristotle to learn about two types of persuasion, the rational logos (the head) and the emotional pathos (the heart), and the overlap between the two.
Witness the rise of the concept of the masses alongside newspaper and radio, as well as the development of the publicity man and the field of public relations.
Explore the dark side of propaganda as it was perfected during the Third Reich.
See how post-war America opened new opportunities for the advertising Mad Men of Madison Avenue.
Consider new challenges in our era of digital communications and social media.
Successfully navigating our contemporary world means understanding persuasion in speech, media, messaging, imagery, and more. Propaganda and Persuasion is, therefore, an invaluable resource for your life as a citizen, colleague, consumer, and human being at large.

Explore Mass Media and Persuasion

One of your first lectures in this course is an examination of how mass media completely upended civilization in the early 20th century. Thanks to books, newspapers, and radio, even though people were spread out geographically, those individuals (called masses ) could receive the same messages and perhaps even be influenced in similar ways.

Public relations and consumer marketing are so prevalent in our lives today that it can be astonishing to step back and consider that entire communication fields had to be invented. For example, you will meet Edward Bernays, considered the father of public relations, who in the early 20th century recognized the opportunity of mass media and developed communications for the anonymous masses.

And, of course, there was a dark side to these developments. Professor Young shows how Adolph Hitler learned from the American propaganda techniques of World War I and perfected them in the engine of death that was the Third Reich. Examining the control of media and messaging in Nazi Germany lays bare the distinction between persuasion which requires a free choice and propaganda.

Mass persuasion is fraught with difficult ethical questions. What is the difference between ethical persuasion and manipulation or coercion? How can you employ the techniques of persuasion while still respecting an individual s free will?

Unpack the Mechanisms of Persuasion

To dive into these thorny issues of persuasion and propaganda, Professor Young introduces social science frameworks that explain why people respond to certain kinds of persuasion. For example, if someone says they value health, but their diet or exercise habits suggest otherwise, what s going on? What is their motivation?

Human beings are complex and nuanced creatures, so a study of persuasion is really an examination of the deepest recesses of our minds. Sometimes we are persuaded by Aristotle s logos (cool rationality); whereas, other times we need an appeal to pathos (an emotional hook) to move us. But, as you will discover, the question of logos versus pathos is not an either/or, but rather a both/and proposition. We are persuaded by reason and emotion, often at the very same time.

One of the more astonishing developments in the second half of the 20th century is the development of meaning-making advertising. Whereas older advertisements tended to sell the features of a product, post-war advertising began leaning on the power of meaning-making. For example, you couldn t advertise the flavor of Coca-Cola through the medium of television, but you could pair the soft drink with a scene of unity linking the brand of Coke to a larger meaning.

One way to create meaning is through the power of stories. Professor Young will show you how storytelling, as well as jokes and humor, can disarm you as the reader or listener. When listening to a story or a joke, you might let your guard down and be more susceptible to persuasion without even realizing it.

The ethics of such persuasion are complicated and have become even more important in the digital age.

What Does the Future Look Like?

The first generations of masses were bombarded with persuasion in advertising and politics. Today, our lives are deeply integrated with digital communication and social media. Not only must we recognize the effects of native advertising and social media influencers, but we must also actively guard against the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories.

In the final lectures of this course, Professor Young examines recent political campaigns and the viral spread of conspiracy theories. Some conspiracy theories are outlandish and obviously false, but misinformation is often about feelings rather than facts, making it harder to debunk. What s more, with so many messages out there, many of which are tailored to our preexisting attitudes, it becomes harder and harder to resist the influence of persuasion.

What do we do about this? How should we live as citizens committed to the truth? What does the future of persuasion look like? Propaganda and Persuasion is a powerful antidote to the insidious forces of propaganda and manipulation. With Professor Young s guidance, you will be a savvier consumer of information and a healthier citizen.

What Will You Learn?
Survey the history of mass media, advertising, and political propaganda

Reflect on rational and irrational forms of persuasion the head and the heart

See how stories and social identity shape our attitudes about the world

Arm yourself against misinformation in the digital age

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 04:52 PM

You don t have to be rich to live rich. In fact, you can build wealth on as little as five dollars a day and retire a millionaire, provided you re strategic and savvy about your finances. Even better: It s never too late to start.

There s hope for those of us out there who would love to transform ourselves into millionaires, even if we don t feel like we have the potential. Whether you re living paycheck to paycheck or have a comfortable income and simply want to live your dream life, there are ways to acquire wealth that don t require you to walk into a bank or brokerage firm. You don t even need a lot of time or even a budget. All you need are a set of core strategies, tips, and insights that can help you achieve financial independence and become richer than you thought you could ever be.

New York Times best-selling author David Bach knows this better than anyone. His celebrated books, The Automatic Millionaire and The Latte Factor: Why You Don t Need to Be Rich to Live Rich, have changed people s lives. Now, in Start Late, Finish Rich, David distills and updates all the learnings from his more than 20 years of financial experience into an engaging, entertaining, and enlightening series that can put you in better control of your finances and back in the driver s seat of your dreams.

Why You re Richer Than You Think

David knows that no matter when you start taking control of your money (and your future), you have hope there s a way to do it. And his goal is to take that hope that s already inside you and give you the structure and techniques proven to build wealth over your lifetime.

In Start Late, Finish Rich, you ll learn how to

Create financial freedom starting with as little as five dollars a day,
Practice automatic millionaire habits that can change everything,
Retire early or transition to a life you dream of living,
Build effective retirement and security accounts,
Dodge dangerous retirement pitfalls and investing mistakes,
Determine the best financial apps and investments out there,
And so much more.
Potent, Powerful Financial Advice

These lessons are packed with potent, powerful advice the same advice Davie has taught to millions of people in seminars, live events, courses, and best-selling books. With Start Late, Finish Rich, you ll get to hear the same insights as audiences at the world s leading financial service firms, Fortune 500 companies, universities, and national conferences.

Pay Yourself First: When it comes to money, a lifestyle-sustainable plan starts with paying yourself first. When you earn a dollar, the first thing you do is take some of it and pay yourself. (And it needs to go directly from your paycheck into your retirement account so you don t pay taxes first.)
Learn Your Latte Factor : Frivolous spending on things like lattes adds up, and can convince us we don t have money for our future. Find out where the money is going in your life and put it to better use. If you don t believe you can find $5 a day, then you re never going to believe you can find $10, or $20, or $50.
Own, Don t Rent: A huge financial mistake is not buying a home. Yes, it s expensive, but it s worth it to scrape and borrow and figure it out. Remember that you re not buying a dream home, you re getting into the game of real estate. And real estate is the escalator to wealth.
Find Your Value: Financial conflict is about spending money in a way that doesn t match up with your value system. The way you fix finances is to determine what your values are, then get them to work together congruently. Do that, and you have an unbreakable force pulling you where you really want to go in life.
Ultimately, Start Late, Finish Rich is as much about values as it is about money; attitude as much as accounting.

I don t believe it s all about the numbers, David says. It s really all about what s most important to you, which is: What s your why ? Why are you doing all of this? What do you care the most about?

And if you don t already know your why, David and his masterful series will help you figure that out.

What Will You Learn?
Discover how to create financial freedom starting with as little as $5 a day

Understand the automatic millionaire habit that changes everything

Find out how to retire early or transition early to a life you dream of

See how to become rich faster, as a freelancer or a small business owner

Know which companies, apps, and investments today are making managing your money easier and cheaper

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 04:55 PM

In the late 19th century, a revolution was underway in the art world. In the span of just a few years, some of the most remarkable artworks of the period emerged in close succession. These groundbreaking painters, and others, formed the multifaceted movement art historians call Post-Impressionism.

1886: The tiny, shimmering dots of Georges Seurat s A Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte reveal a totally new way of painting.

1888: Paul S rusier s daring landscape The Talisman casts aside centuries of pictorial realism.

1889: Vincent van Gogh s The Starry Night explodes from the canvas with seething energy, wild brushstrokes, and passionate feeling.

1894: The ghostly faces and red sky of Edvard Munch s Anxiety probe beneath the placid veneer of civilized society.

This was a time of vast change, both in European society and in art. But of all the innovators in painting of the 19th century and those that followed, perhaps the most pivotal and transformational of all were the Post-Impressionists.

It was this school of artists who most radically broke with the artistic conventions of the past; developed entirely new ways of seeing and painting; and paved the way for abstraction in art and movements like Cubism and Modernism. Centered in France, and radiating outward to the larger world, Post-Impressionism forever changed the language, conception, and methods of painting, giving viewers new ways of perceiving and understanding visual experience.

In the process of changing the art world so thoroughly, the Post-Impressionists produced an incredible number of the most beloved paintings in the history of art, including works from artists such as Paul C zanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Post-Impressionism: The Beginnings of Modern Art takes you deeply into this extraordinary world of color and light, where you will experience a galvanizing and game-changing era in painting across 24 lectures. In the brilliant presentation of Professor Ricky Allman, of the University of Missouri Kansas City, this course tells an epic story, unfurling a spectacular panorama of paintings, revealing the artists reimagining of their tools, methods, and goals. As Professor Allman puts it, Now that the Impressionists have unlocked the door, the Post-Impressionists are going to blow it off its hinges.

To know this history-making era in painting, and the phenomenal spectrum of masterworks it produced, is to experience one of Western art s most glorious moments. The spellbinding imagery of Post-Impressionists continues to touch us deeply today.

Encounter Painters of Vision and Genius

Broadly speaking, the Post-Impressionists were more interested in what they felt than what they saw. They not only invented extraordinary new pictorial techniques and visual effects, but they also looked for ways to go beneath the surface level of reality, to tell deeper and more compelling truths. Within the wide spectrum of painters presented in the course, Professor Allman will guide you on an in-depth exploration of the work of

Paul C zanne. Take the measure of C zanne s massive impact both as a painter and a major influence on other artists. In his iconic landscapes and still lifes, observe how he distilled subject matter to essential underlying forms, painting objects from more than one angle at once, dismantling and reassembling visual perception and opening new ways of seeing.
Georges Seurat. Track the process by which Seurat pioneered the technique of divisionism or pointillism, where colors applied separately on the canvas are blended by the viewer s eye. Witness his use of this technique in Bathers at Asni res, La Grande Jatte, and in his electric evocations of Parisian life and culture, giving the world a uniquely different way of painting.
Vincent van Gogh. In two detailed and penetrating lectures, get to the heart of what made Van Gogh one of the most famous artists of all time. Observe how his troubled youth, passionate spirit, personal relationships, and his mental illness figured into the development of his work, leading to paintings of searing visual intensity, glorious color, and larger-than-life emotion.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Go behind the scenes of Toulouse-Lautrec s dazzling paintings of Parisian night life the lush, sensual views of caf s, music halls, circuses, and brothels that remain some of the most beloved images of the Belle poque. Learn about his work process, and how he pioneered wide visibility for his art through the medium of prints.
Witness the Transformation of an Art Form

In addition to the most iconic painters within Post-Impressionism, you ll explore a rich range of lesser-known artists, as well as key sub-movements, which round out the story of this revolutionary era in art.

Among these, you ll learn how a group of painters known as Neo-Impressionists used the parameters of optics and color theory developed by Seurat to pursue a political use of art, seen in the work of extraordinary artists like Paul Signac, Th o van Rysselberghe, and others. You ll meet the artists called the Nabis, including painters such as Pierre Bonnard and douard Vuillard, who sought deeper levels of reality within imagery of daily life. And you ll discover the remarkable creations of the Symbolists, such as James Ensor, Evelyn de Morgan, and F licien Rops, who used dream, horror, and myth to challenge and provoke their viewers.

As the inquiry progresses, you ll devote lectures to seminal painters such as

Paul Gauguin. Within a complex legacy, come to grips with the greatness of Gauguin s work, from his early landscapes and still lifes and bold, symbolic paintings to his luminous, mystical evocations of Tahitian life. Against this background, look into the dark side of his personality, his treatment of women, and his artistic misrepresentation of other cultures.
Suzanne Valadon. Follow Valadon s highly unusual journey to becoming an important Post-Impressionist painter, in the wake of a career as a model for other major artists. Study her extraordinary work, highlighting her beautiful, empathetic depictions of women and domestic life, and her complex, richly colored, boundary-pushing compositions.
Gustav Klimt. At the end of the Post-Impressionist era, enter the world of this unique, visionary artist. From his glowing portraits of beautiful society women to his symbol-rich, golden-toned canvasses, see how he straddled Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and the Sezession movement, creating paintings of astonishing visual power.
Travel into a World-Changing Era

These thrilling and richly informative lectures rest on the exceptional knowledge, insight, and artist s eye of Professor Allman. Throughout this inquiry, he brings his own lived experience as a fine arts painter to the discussion of the works at hand, offering revealing insights into the paintings from an artist s perspective.

For example, in highlighting the unusual atmosphere of Odilon Redon s Evocation of Butterflies, Professor Allman points out that the ethereal texture of the orange background appears to be shaped by the flapping of the insects wings, as if the painter s brushstrokes are evoking gentle currents of air. And he delves into the painterly secrets of Henri Rousseau s famous depictions of jungles, based in an ingenious method of layering multiple varieties of green, with each plant seeming to have a different temperature of color.

Finally, across the span of the course, Professor Allman brings alive the dramatic social and historical backdrop that shaped these great works of art, providing detailed biographical information of numerous painters. He also shows that the many factors altering the fabric of European life, thus, shaped its art, such as the 19th-century Industrial Revolution; rail travel; photography; popular culture; the Franco-Prussian War; and the ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud.

In Post-Impressionism: The Beginnings of Modern Art you ll relive a breathtaking and transformative era in painting. Its deep impact on aesthetics and visual culture is still a force in the world today.

What Will You Learn?
See how this time of vast changes in science, industry, politics, religion, philosophy, and culture changed art

Take an in-depth exploration of the works of C zanne, Seurat, van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec, and also look at works by lesser-known artists and key sub-movements

Find out why Post-Impressionism matters and how it paved the way for movements like Cubism and Modernism

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 04:59 PM

Imagine you could visit a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all of the world s current museums combined

Imagine you could visit a Museum of Lost Art. If this imaginary museum contained just the artwork we knew was lost whether from theft, purposeful destruction, vandalism, war, or the forces of nature it would still contain more masterpieces than those in all of the world s current museums combined. Among its many treasures, it would hold

The lost scrolls of the Library of Alexandria;
The looted antiquities of the Iraq Museum;
Religious art smashed during the Reformation;
Countless treasures stolen by the Nazis; and
The single largest art heist of modern times.
In Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces, art historian and art crime expert Noah Charney guides you through just such an imaginary museum. In 12 fascinating lectures accompanied by stunning images, you will hear the stories behind the theft and/or destruction of some of the world s most famous pieces of art. From the earthquake that felled the Colossus of Rhodes in 226 BCE to the Taliban s iconoclastic destruction of the 500-year-old Buddha Statues at Bamiyan in the 21st century, no one knows how many great works of art have been destroyed or lost throughout history. Only very few have ever resurfaced.

We can only imagine how the artists of those works might feel. To have struggled, sometimes for years or even decades, to produce a work with painstaking clarity having used a paintbrush with only one bristle, in at least one case only to have it lost or destroyed. Or consider Pythius and Satyros, the Greeks who built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, only to have it ruined by earthquakes. And what about the architects of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or did they ever really exist? You ll be fascinated and surprised by these many stories of lost art.

What We Don t Know

In Lost Art: The Stories of Missing Masterpieces, you ll hear some familiar names, such as Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Goya, and you might recognize many of their works. Although we don t know how many of their works have been lost or stolen, many have been documented as such. Overall, we have no way of knowing about the thousands and thousands of pieces of art that were destroyed or stolen without any record of their existence to pass on.

And then there was Michelangelo, who purposefully destroyed many of his own drawings. In his time and place, there was great cultural significance placed on sprezzatura the concept that what you do should come to you easily which, in his case, included creating some of the most significant art the world had ever seen. Consequently, he burned up scores of his work-in-progress drawings into the fire, leaving behind only what he considered to be perfection.

As you will see, the destruction and loss of art can be the result of many factors, both intentional and simply inevitable. Noah will take you through discussions about dozens of artworks and historical sites whose whereabouts are completely unknown at this time, including

Paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The biggest art heist in modern history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990, when 13 paintings were stolen from the Gardner Museum. The FBI values the works by Vermeer and Manet, among others, at $500 million. Some believe the mafia was involved. The museum is still asking the public for leads.
Nativity by Caravaggio. One of the most notorious and long-running unsolved thefts of 1969, this Caravaggio painting was stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily, and it has continued to be on the FBI s Top Ten Most Wanted Art list since. Current thinking is that the Sicilian mafia was behind the theft and still has possession of it.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon. These ancient gardens are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World, although their actual location has remained elusive through the 21st century. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were noted for the beauty of their plants, their architecture, and their engineering; however, no one can find them, not even a reliable trace. Were they simply a legend?

What We Do Know

The US Department of Justice has ranked art crime as the third-highest grossing criminal trade, behind only the drugs and arms trades. And in Italy alone, more than 20,000 pieces of art are annually reported as stolen. In this course, Noah will highlight some of the very few works that have been recovered, including

Goya s Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery in London by Kempton Bunton, an older man who was furious that British pensioners were forced to pay for a license to watch television a fee many could not afford. In a Robin Hood-style effort, he sent a series of ransom notes to raise the money to buy the licenses himself. Bunton eventually returned the painting anonymously and turned himself in.
Leonardo da Vinci s Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian handyman and two compatriots who believed the painting should reside in Italy, not France. Two years after the theft, the handyman tried to sell the work to a Florentine art dealer who promised to keep the painting safe in Italy. Instead, he called the police. It was only after the painting s theft and return that the Mona Lisa became the globally famous piece it is today.
Edvard Munch s The Scream was stolen in 1994 from Norway s National Gallery in Oslo, while everyone s attention was on the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics 125 miles away in Lillehammer. The thief was eventually caught, and the painting returned.
Acts of Nature

Due to the fragile nature of many art pieces, time and the environment are its natural enemies. Even artworks made of stone and metal cannot withstand the elements, indefinitely. You ll consider works that have been affected by the progress of time and the vicissitudes of nature, such as

The Artwork at Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, almost 2,000 people were killed. The eruption also smothered uncounted paintings, frescoes, mosaics, and other artworks. Ironically, much of the artwork that archaeologists have revealed at Pompeii in recent years would have been lost during the intervening centuries if they had not been preserved under the ash.
The Colossus of Rhodes. Three of the ancient wonders of the world were destroyed by earthquakes, including the colossal bronze statue standing at the harbor on the island of Rhodes. It stood for only 54 years before a violent earthquake broke it at the knees. The statue toppled over and crashed backward to the ground.
Florentine Artwork. In November 1966, flooding caused the banks of the Arno River to burst. More than 100 people died, and, by some estimates, millions of cultural objects were lost. These included more than 1,500 significant artworks by Uccello, Bonaiuto, Donatello, Ghiberti, and dozens more.
While no one knows how many pieces of art large and small would be in an imaginary Museum of Lost Art, consideration of that museum has helped us recognize and better appreciate the artwork that is in existence today. None of it is permanent; all of it is fragile, and even the most robust pieces have a temporal quality. That very nature helps you appreciate what needs to be appreciated today.

What Will You Learn?
Explore the role politics has played in the theft of art through the years

Examine modern technologies used in art authentication

Investigate the most famous art heists, both solved and unsolved

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:02 PM

In 1988, the TV series Star Trek introduced audiences to the holodeck. This fictional device used holograms to create fully immersive virtual worlds in which crew members on the starship U.S.S. Enterprise could roam freely and interact with the environment, objects, and characters as if in real life. Many of us have likely found ourselves wishing at some point that we, too, could enter the holodeck and go on these fantastical adventures. Guess what? That day may finally be here.

In Imagining Tomorrow's Entertainment, you will meet expert Eric R. Williams, Professor of New Media Storytelling and Emerging Technologies at Ohio University, where he heads up the cinematic virtual reality arm of the Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab. Eric will take you on a 10-episode tour beyond your wildest dreams and into the future of entertainment. Your mission during this journey will be to find out what is possible and probable in this rapidly approaching future. You will also have fun testing out these new technologies for yourself.

The world of entertainment is constantly changing and evolving. Today, we are no longer leaning back to consume our favorite stories. Instead, we are leaning forward and actively participating in their creation. This is XR, or Extended Reality, which is an umbrella term under which several other entertainment technologies reside, such as

Augmented Reality (AR),
Virtual Reality (VR),
Mixed Reality (MR), and
Augmented Virtuality (AV).
XR also includes everything else in between these five terms. Think holograms, video games, and even 360-degree interactive movies. The landscape is shifting beneath our feet and into our hands, heads, and bodies.

The Storyplex

As you prepare to leap into the future in Imagining Tomorrow's Entertainment, you will meet a handpicked selection of rising leaders in the field who will blow your mind with what is already out there. But to begin a big trip, you first need a roadmap to guide you, and Eric knows just where to get one. This roadmap is called the Storyplex a new paradigm for storytelling where you will step out of the passive reality of classical realism and into an active reality called collaborative realism, where there is an interactive relationship between you and the story. The Storyplex concept, developed by Stephanie Riggs, author of The End of Storytelling, is a dynamic network of technology, narrative, and humanity.

The gateway drug to experiencing the Storyplex is 360-degree video, as this is how we can step outside of the framed content of our flat screens into a spherical space where the story appears to be happening all around us. You will get a taste of it here in this series.

Video Games and Esports

When discussing interactive entertainment, one of the biggest sectors to consider is video games. The video game industry is a 190-billion-dollar juggernaut, out-stripping both film and music in terms of revenue. Unlike the passive experience of television and film, games can offer agency and immersion and VR can engage a player's entire body, making video games a more active experience.

Today, video games have become more than home entertainment. The rise of electronic sports, known as esports, is a direct result of competitive online gaming and can now be seen as the evolution of traditional sports. This industry is rapidly growing and has become a global phenomenon. If you haven't heard of it, these numbers may convince you: Currently, 15 million active users watch 3 billion minutes of content each month.

It didn't start this way, but these professionals that are now esports athletes can now make the big bucks competing on the world stage not unlike their traditional athlete counterparts in the NFL or the NBA. The only difference? This world stage is now digital, built upon a technological infrastructure to create the experience and an IT network critical for broadcasting, Twitch streaming, chats, Discord, and Twitter. Within the last decade, this industry has grown to where there are now whole professional careers built around it including broadcasters, team managers, psychologists, trainers, and beyond.

In this new world, games are not limited to our living rooms. The playground is now global, and players can engage in real-time with anyone on the planet. This progression also has vast implications for human psychology and connection. Now, you can be together worldwide with friends, family, and even celebrities as if they re beside you.

Enhancing Our Stories

Do you remember the Choose Your Own Adventure game book series from the '80s and '90s? What made those books so popular was that they gave their readers agency the ability to control their fictional destinies. So interactive storytelling is not new, but it is changing as we move from interactive books and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons to the immersive technologies of the 21st century. The younger generation does not want to be told stories; they want to be part of stories. When you have agency over your entertainment, your scope and engagement in the story can be expanded.

One of the tools growing in popularity as we head in this direction is Cinematic Virtual Reality (Cine VR), which uses 360-degree cameras and full-sphere surround sound (ambisonic) microphones to capture sight and sound in a way that enhances your perception of reality both visually and aurally. Cine VR techniques are not only key in the entertainment industry; they can also serve as training tools for any number of specialized sectors, like training pilots and drivers.

When we blend the physical and digital, we get Augmented Reality (AR), which creates a bridge between worlds by using

Location,
Objects,
Proximity, and
Motion Recognition.
Of all the technology we will explore in Imagining Tomorrow's Entertainment, AR has the greatest potential to immerse the audience in the story. It also has the greatest hurdles, however, as it is currently accessed with flat-screen devices, such as a phone. But it's only a matter of time before that could change, and there could be special glasses or other tools to experience AR. The key to AR's growth is the accessible and silly fun of games like Pokemon Go, which had an explosion in popularity after its release and is enjoyed by an unexpectedly wide demographic of players.

With the help of the Storyplex roadmap and Eric as your guide, you will take flight into Imagining Tomorrow's Entertainment. At the end of the journey, you will not only gain knowledge about the many kinds of exciting new technology already happening and developing currently, but you will also feel inspired to challenge yourself as a viewer, creator, and connoisseur. Now, you, too, can have the opportunity to help draw new road maps and reimagine the entertainment of tomorrow.

What Will You Learn?
Investigate new technologies using collaborative realism and virtual reality in storytelling, entertainment, and sports

Look at the evolution of video games and toys for kids

Meet rising leaders in the field of interactive digital entertainment

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:05 PM

The incredible wealth and diversity of wildlife is one of the great treasures of our planet. In North America alone, our ecosystems teem with an amazing range of wild creatures, from majestic elk, moose, bears, bison, mountain lions, caribou, and wolves to some 800 bird species, and an astonishing number of smaller mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates.

Although we are coinhabitants with the animal life in our biosphere, many of us live far from the places where wild creatures thrive. But wherever we may live, it s easy to miss the full richness of the wildlife around us unless we know where to look and what to look for.

Here is where the skill of wildlife tracking offers an extraordinary window into our natural environments. Wildlife tracking, encompassing many areas of knowledge, is the practiced facility of identifying and following the tracks, trails, and other evidence of animal life we find in woods, deserts, rivers, lakes, mountains, plains, and our own backyards. The knowledge we gain, as well as the insight and heightened awareness tracking gives us, allows for a deeper experience of the ecosystems we enter, and the ability to locate, appreciate, and enjoy the animal life we find there.

Tracking opens a compelling and powerful way to relate to animals and the ecosystems they live in, bringing us into intimate contact with wildlife and the ever-changing environments they call home. In Nature Watching: How to Find and Observe Wildlife, you ll travel into the wonders of the natural world, learning and practicing the skills of tracking, as you explore the wild, natural environments that inspire you. Your guide is Casey McFarland of CyberTracker Conservation, a senior professional tracker, teacher of wildlife guides, and a passionate advocate of the wilderness and the magnificent spectrum of life that awaits you there.

Delve into the Wonder and Mystery of Animal Behavior

These 24 exciting episodes introduce you to the core skills of wildlife tracking, illustrated through a rich range of location photography, video footage, and Mr. McFarland s expert and inspired teaching. A grasp of the skills of tracking gives you the chance to

Go into the field and see things most others don t see; to read the landscapes of wild places, as professional trackers do;
Observe animal life across a broad spectrum, from beetles and cicadas, soaring hawks and swallows to wild canines, felines, hooved animals, bears, rodents, and the wild inhabitants of more faraway places;
Deeply sensitize yourself to natural landscapes and ecosystems, and to blend in and go unnoticed;
Recognize the trails; tracks; and the marking, feeding, bedding, and mating behavior of a wide range of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and more;
Discover the amazing world of animal communication, found in marking spots, buck rubs, animal calls, and the many other ways that animals gather and transmit information; and
Know the deep sense of connection and intimacy with nature that tracking brings.
Casey s gripping commentary brims with real-life tracking adventures, as you travel the world in his company, on the trail of the remarkable creatures that populate our biosphere. In each lesson, you ll study a key skill of tracking, concluding with a field assignment, where you ll put the skills and information you ve learned into practice. You will be able to take your new knowledge into wild places, building the skills of tracking in whatever environment you choose.

And Casey makes it clear that the principles of tracking we learn in our home ecosystems apply everywhere in the world. You can use your knowledge of the tracks of the bobcat in the United States, the bedding behavior of caribou, or the mating rituals of hummingbirds in wild environments across the planet.

Learn to Track Nature s Wild Creatures in the Field

In this practical and hands-on course, you ll take a detailed overview of what expert trackers do, as you build skill with essential elements of tracking, such as

The Lore and Magic of Animal Tracks. Over the course of four episodes, learn to identify the paw, hoof, and foot prints animals leave on the landscape. Study how tracks look in different ground and weather conditions. Learn to read the age of tracks; whether tracks are front or back, right or left; and the gait patterns that tell us much about an animal s behavior.
Tracking the Amazing World of Birds. Discover what tracking teaches us about the avian world: Take a deep dive into bird feathers, which reveal a bird s style of flight and other vital clues; bird nests, how birds build them and what they tell us; and bird language, the remarkable range of bird vocalization and inflection, and the information birds convey;
The Potent Language of Animal Marking. Across various episodes, grasp how animals are just as involved in communication as we are. Investigate the multiple ways animals use scent, to mark territory, transmit information, create community bulletin boards, and participate in mating rituals, and how as trackers we can decipher a world of information from their marks;
Going Invisible and Recalibrating Your Senses. Look deeply into what tracking requires of us as visitors to wild places; learn the principles of camouflage, appropriate clothing, and unobtrusive movement in the field; begin the process of retraining and heightening your senses and awareness, so as to become highly sensitized to the environments you enter;
Bedding, Nesting, and Mating in the Wild. Take an intimate look into animal behavior through their bedding spots, highlighting those of deer and bears; see what tracking uncovers about the tunnels and digs of prairie dogs, badgers, and other burrowing creatures; and delve into animal mating rituals, and find intriguing evidence in the field of those of elk and rabbits;
The Art of Trailing. Over two episodes, study the core skill of following an animal in the field over a distance. Learn the strategies expert trackers use, paying attention to many clues beyond the tracks, scanning the landscape ahead, and monitoring the direction of air currents. Grasp how to glean important information by listening, and how to re-find the trail if you ve lost it.
Enjoy an Intimate Immersion in Natural Life around You

Throughout these richly informative episodes, Casey illustrates the principles and methods of tracking through demonstrations and engrossing stories of tracking in the field. Among many examples, you ll travel with him on the trail of wild elk in Wyoming, mountain lions in Colorado and Chile, macaques in Taiwan, elephants in Kenya, and follow the astonishing migration route of the blackpoll warbler from Alaska to Brazil.

Through these encounters, and with your new skills, you ll experience how tracking takes us vividly into the lives of animals, as they lead us to where they feed, and where they bed, hunt, mate, and raise their young revealing how they see the world, and offering us a unique perspective other than our own.

In Nature Watching: How to Find and Observe Wildlife, you ll encounter the stunning beauty and diversity of our planet, its wild creatures, and its rich ecosystems, as you discover a different and richly rewarding way of knowing the world.

What Will You Learn?
Learn to identify the paw, hoof, and foot prints animals leave on the landscape, and explore how tracks look in different ground and weather conditions

Gain practical tips on how to blend into the environment when tracking wildlife, in terms of both camouflage and movement

Discover the strategies expert trackers use to follow an animal in the field over distance, such as checking air currents, scanning the landscape ahead, and pausing to listen to the environment

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:08 PM

Between the two World Wars that would change the course of modern history, a smaller yet deeply impactful conflict took place. The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939

Between the two World Wars that would change the course of modern history, a smaller yet deeply impactful conflict took place. The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939. On the one hand, it was a local conflict on the margins of Europe. On the other hand, the conflict can also be seen as a microcosm of war in the 20th century. Not only did the Spanish Civil War foreshadow the global conflagration to come, but it also had its roots in the modern era s central divides: urban versus rural, religion versus secularization, rich versus poor, progress versus tradition, democracy versus fascism and communism.

The only exposure many of us have had to information about the Spanish Civil War comes from the cultural reflections of the time, such as artistic masterpieces like Pablo Picasso s painting Guernica and Ernest Hemingway s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Beyond these representations, however, the shadow of the war lives on as new information continues to emerge about the authoritarian rule of General Francisco Franco in Spain and the nation he built out of the rubble after the war between the left-wing Republican government and the right-wing Nationalist insurgency.

In this course, you will have the opportunity to explore this fascinating, complex, and often brutal time in history. How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe s Battlefield takes you to the front line and introduces you to the competing coalitions on each side to look at the issues of a perennially confounding military, political, and social history. Taught by Professor Pamela B. Radcliff of the University of California, San Diego, these 24 scintillating lectures survey the aspects of an endlessly multifaceted history. Along the way, you will investigate key questions, such as

How did Spain transition from a seemingly peaceful democracy to a nation torn by war?
What role did the Catholic Church and the international community including Soviet communists, Italian fascists, and German Nazis play in the conflict?
How did ordinary soldiers, citizens, clergy, workers, and business owners experience the civil war?
Why did the Republican side lose, and what did this mean for Spain s future?
Next, you will reflect on the complicated legacy of the war. Since the Nationalist leader General Francisco Franco took power and held authoritarian rule for decades after the war, information about the war itself was limited until the later decades of the 20th century. Only recently, scholars have been able to evaluate terror campaigns, concentration camps, and other wartime atrocities. Professor Radcliff delves into these so-called memory wars of the 21st century to show how multiple narratives of the war continue to proliferate.

How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe s Battlefield is a magnificent overview of an astonishing history from the political polarization in the Second Republic to the urban warfare during the war years.

Examine the Roots of Spanish Nationalism

In July 1936, Spanish military leaders conspired to overthrow the democratically elected Spanish Republican government. But their coup s partial failure turned into an almost three-year-long total war that claimed about a half a million lives and resulted in the exile of 250,000 Spanish nationals.

To set the stage for this monumental conflict, Professor Radcliff goes back to establishment of a democratic Republic in 1931, when the nation was bifurcated largely on urban and rural lines. The interior of the country was largely agricultural, traditional yet impoverished; whereas, the urban centers, led by progressive intellectuals, were perceived as elite and out of touch.

Political polarization from these geographic and class tensions came to a boiling point in 1936 when military garrisons led by General Franco attempted a surgical coup. Although the coup failed, the spasm divided the military and ushered the country into local violence and, ultimately, state collapse.

Trace the Course of the War

The summer of 1936 was one of the bloodiest seasons in Spanish history, in which tens of thousands of civilians including the poet Federico Garcia Lorca were massacred in lawless states that resembled the Wild West. In this opening act, a series of decentralized groups coalesced in two broad camps: progressive Republicans, as well as socialist workers and communists, on the side of the government and Catholics, Nationalists, and even outright fascists on the side of the insurgency.

At the time, the war seemed to represent a larger European contest, where democracy, fascism, and communism were competing to define the region s future. For that reason, it attracted international attention from the major world powers, from fascist Germany and Italy to the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the United States, as well as from ordinary citizens including the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, memorialized in the writing of Ernest Hemingway.

In How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe s Battlefield, Professor Radcliff surveys the war over its three-year span, delving into each side s strategies, alliances, and propaganda. In addition to Franco, you ll meet such figures as Manuel Aza a, the Republican president; Largo Caballero, the revolutionary socialist who influenced the radical wing of the Socialist party; and Dolores Ibarruri, a prominent female labor leader immortalized through passionate speeches written under the pen name La Pasionaria.

Legacy of War, Lessons for Today

As you will discover, both Republicans and Nationalists gradually centralized their military operations and employed repressive tactics on soldiers and civilians alike. The violence, however, was asymmetric, with the Nationalists ultimately prevailing. General Franco became el caudillo ( the leader ) of an authoritarian regime for more than 35 years.

Professor Radcliff rounds out the course with a deep consideration of the war s legacy. Even today, the ghosts of this 20th-century war still haunt contemporary Spain, with no national consensus on how it fits into the trajectory of Spanish history. After the war, Franco s regime buried records of atrocities. The true death toll and economic accounting have only recently come to light, leading to battles in scholarship over how to interpret the war.

Was the Spanish Civil War a victory of totalitarian fascism or was it a backstop against the rising red tide of communism? Was Franco a ruthless war criminal or a defender of the faith? Most important, what can the war tell us about democracy today as many of the same divides over rich and poor, progress and tradition, religion and secularism, continue to inspire passionate intensity?

There are no easy answers, but How the Spanish Civil War Became Europe s Battlefield offers a powerful survey of a defining moment in Spanish and European history.

What Will You Learn?
Explore the causes and consequences of the Spanish Civil War

Reflect on the many coalitions that comprised the Republican and Nationalist sides

Find out what life was like for ordinary citizens during the war

Learn how General Francisco Franco rose to power

Consider the war s complicated legacy even today

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