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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:12 PM

Join historian, biblical scholar, and best-selling author Jean-Pierre Isbouts to walk in the footsteps of Jesus

As the largest religion in the world, Christianity is comprised of thousands of denominations reflecting 2,000 years of ideas. While many branches of the faith vary wildly, they all spring from the same source: a rabbi from Galilee in the far provinces of the Roman Empire. To better understand Christianity today and, thus, our world you will journey back to the source and reflect on the man at the center of the Christian faith, the historical Jesus of Nazareth.

Christians all have their own unique understanding of Jesus

The Son of God, who shares in his father s identity;
The Messiah, who came to usher in the kingdom of God;
The preacher, who spoke out against the oppressive powers of his day;
And Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world today.
Who was this man? Where did he come from? And how would he have viewed his own ministry? As an investigation of these questions, Searching for the Historical Jesus takes you back two millennia to explore the history, context, and character of a humble rabbi who changed the world. Presented by Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts, a professor emeritus at Fielding Graduate University, and filmed on-location in Israel and Jordan in the Holy Land, these 15 thought-provoking episodes bring Jesus and his world to life through the lens of a historian of faith.

Not only can this history give us a better sense of our world today, but it can also deepen our own faith, whether Christian or not, as we reflect on

The way Roman political structures created hunger and homelessness in the exploited province of Galilee;
The schools of Jewish thought and their interaction with Greco-Roman philosophy;
Jesus s Sermon on the Mount, miracles, prayers, and other works of ministry; and
The transformation of Jesus s teachings into a church that spread around the world.
From the nativity in Bethlehem to Jesus s entry into Jerusalem, and to his trial and crucifixion, Jean-Pierre reveals what we know from historical and archaeological evidence, including the Gospels, the writings of Josephus, and 21st-century excavations. He also delves into the mysteries of the faith, connects the Gospels to the Hebrew Bible prophets, and considers how Paul and other church fathers transformed the local message of Jesus into a world religion. You will travel in the footsteps of the historical Jesus, examining the story of the man and the faith he inspired, in the heart of the land where he lived and taught.

Full of vivid detail and psychological insight and illustrated with wonderful cinematography and 3-D animation, Searching for the Historical Jesus offers an excellent companion piece for anyone wrestling with history or with walking in faith.

Get to Know the Biblical World

After surveying the historical sources and archaeological evidence at our disposal, the first stop in your journey is an exploration of biblical Israel. At the turn of the Common Era, Judea was a province of the early Roman Empire and was under the control of the vassal king Herod the Great.

As you will learn, Jesus s home of Galilee was an agricultural region in the north. Herod and his successors exploited the region for tax revenue to fund public works projects. Most Galileans likely were subsistence farmers, living on the knife s edge of survival, so the king s tax program led to the hunger and homelessness we see throughout the Gospels.

Jesus s father, Joseph, was most likely a tradesman working on some of these public projects. Jean-Pierre shows you the textures of life in this era the long days at work, the multi-family dwelling units, and the rebellious political fervor that would have been brewing thanks to Herod s quasi-police state.

You will also reflect on what it would have been like for a young Mary to become pregnant out of wedlock. What would Joseph and their families have thought? Where did the story of the Virgin Birth come from? Where is the line between historical knowledge and religious belief?

Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus

Looking beyond the miracles and mysteries, the story of Jesus the man is fascinating and enlightening and raises many questions for historians. For example, the prophet Micah wrote that the Savior would come from Bethlehem, and sure enough, the Gospels recount Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem when Jesus was born. But why were they there? Why did they travel so far from Galilee?

Evidence ranging from historical records to the Jewish Mishnah offers clues to the time, but we can only speculate today about human motivations 2,000 years ago. We know Jesus would possibly have been taught scripture by the Pharisees, but what was his relationship with Jewish leaders? Further, what was his relationship with his family like? Was he speaking from experience when he counsels his disciples that they may need to leave their families?

Over these 15 rich episodes, Jean-Pierre offers historical details that may help us understand the motive behind the message. We travel with Jesus from Galilee to Perea as he is baptized by John the Baptist, and then he prepares for his own ministry. We follow him into Jerusalem and speculate what he might have felt upon seeing the sacrifices and money changers in the Temple the den of thieves. And we walk with him through the Garden of Gethsemane before his final moments in this life on the cross.

The Son of Man or the Son of God?

Walking in the footsteps of Jesus, we see a man grappling with the challenges of a particular time and place. We see the Zealots reacting against the powers of Rome, and we witness Jesus modulating the political message of John the Baptist into a social message of love.

Although he called himself the Son of Man, Christians view Jesus as the Son of God. We cannot understand the historical Jesus without delving into the theology of how one man s ministry became a movement in large part thanks to the apostle Paul, who carried Jesus s message throughout the Roman Empire.

From the high priests of Judaism to Gnostic Christians to the Catholic Church, Jean-Pierre examines the mystery of Jesus after the brutality of his crucifixion. With generous quotes from scripture, 3-D animation, and beautiful cinematography of historical sites, Searching for the Historical Jesus brings to life a man whose message shaped the world.

What Will You Learn?
Discover the historical context of Judea during the Roman Empire

Explore the world of Galilee and the people who lived during the time of Jesus

Trace the development of Jesus s ministry from the Sermon on the Mount to his trial and crucifixion

Consider Jesus s religious views when placed against the backdrop of history

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:15 PM

There was a time, not too long ago, when talking openly about race was considered in poor taste. If you had good manners, you just didn t talk about politics, religion, or race not with your family or friends, and certainly not with your coworkers. Even now, many people feel the topic of race is better left alone. What if we say something that s misunderstood? What if we re labeled a racist

Professor Anita Foeman understands those worries. In How to Talk about Race, she addresses those specific concerns and others, giving common-sense guidance and step-by-step instructions you can employ to develop a safe and productive dialogue about race. Having spent her professional life researching, teaching, writing, and facilitating conversations about race, Dr. Foeman believes the ability to engage in a productive dialogue is an important start even if we can t solve every problem.

The Real Stories

It s impossible to understand race and culture in the United States without listening to individuals tell their unique stories. After all, while groups of people have shared similar experiences, it isn t until you hear a personal story that you can understand the human impact of race, beneath the gross generalizations.

In this course, you ll meet many fascinating people who have agreed to share their stories. As you get to know them, you might realize that your assumptions about their lives if you had made those assumptions based only on their race would have been far afield from their actual lived experiences. Among the many individuals you ll hear from in this course are

Daniel and Scott. Daniel is a Black man who was adopted from Haiti as an infant by a white American family; Scott is his father. From Daniel, you ll hear what it was like to always know you were different from your family, and the skills he had to develop even at a young age to begin to understand his identify. From Scott, you ll learn about specific decisions the family made to help Daniel and the family unit be able to freely address issues of race.
Meg. Meg is a white woman in a white family who describes her great-aunt as being prejudicial about almost any group of people. After sitting through years of discomfort caused by her relative s comments, you ll hear why and how Meg spoke up. You might be surprised by the simplicity of the question she finally asked her great-aunt, and the changes it caused in both of their lives.
Talon. Talon Silverhorn, a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee tribe of Oklahoma, grew up on a reservation, fully immersed in his culture. But he has relatives who were removed from their homes as children and taken to Indian boarding schools. He once described his American experience as living under the staircase like Harry Potter, but in his own home.
Avoiding the Pitfalls

Maybe you ve wanted to enter in discussions about race but have never known how to start. If you re a person of color, you might want to talk to your white neighbors about the privilege you see them enjoying due strictly to their race, privilege they are possibly blind to. But should you? If you re white, what s the best way to engage with your white niece s Black fianc and his extended family? Is there anything you can say to them about race that won t make you seem like a racist? Or is it best to just pretend that race doesn t exist?

Dr. Foeman has heard all the above questions and more. In this course, you ll learn why just pretending race doesn t exist is not the best answer. You ll also explore how to begin and continue the dialogues you want to pursue without ruining relationships in the process, getting yourself in trouble before you even know what happened. Dr. Foeman cannot promise complete comfort in these discussions, but she can help you avoid common pitfalls if you

Bring Your Humility. Whenever you re speaking about race to someone outside your own group, you will probably have gaps in understanding; admit it. Acknowledge that you re struggling to find the right words, and that you might stumble or say the wrong thing.
Speak Only for Yourself. No one can speak for an entire racial group, which might include millions of unique individuals. Be clear in conversation that you re speaking only from your own perspective.
Show Up and Keep Showing Up. Yes, you might feel uncomfortable, misunderstood, or even angry. But if you care about the issue of race, don t give up. Remember that you re trying to bridge a challenging divide, not to convert anyone to your point of view. Try to end the conversation by letting the other person know that you hope the two of you can speak again.
Walking the Talk

For many of us, learning how to talk about race in a calm and productive manner is a big step forward. Each positive interaction can bring a greater sense of peace and control into our lives. But what if you want to take an even bigger step forward, making a positive contribution to racial discussions at the community, regional, or even national levels? How can you build on the insights you ve gained from this course?

Dr. Foeman points out many ways to join with others who want to make a positive difference in racial issues in our country. In particular, she highlights

Braver Angels. Braver Angels is a national organization that brings together people across the political spectrum to listen, dialogue, and build alliances. Local groups and leadership are balanced with equal numbers of Republican- and Democratic-leaning individuals. Although the organization is not focused solely on race, race is part of the political discussion. Opportunities exist for action at the local, regional, and national levels with Braver Angels and its connections to other like-minded groups.
The Villanova Model. This four-stage dialogue program is offered as a formal course at Villanova University and informed by the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan, but it can be implemented without the course structure. This program which emphasizes the important distinctions between debate, discussion, and dialogue can help you learn to build alliances within, and in addition to, the family.
I Come From ... Foeman shares this activity which is intended to open the door to complex thinking, addressing differences and similarities between individuals. Developed as part of the Villanova Model, it can also be used on its own in any small group where people strive to understand each other with respect to race and/or culture.
Whether you ever join a formal group or not, How to Talk about Race will help you make a difference. You will not only employ the skills you have learned in this course, whenever the topic comes up, but you will also see everything going on around you through this new lens of the possible. In fact, it s safe to say you ll never see things the same way again.

What Will You Learn?
Find out how to better understand the relationship between race and culture in the United States

Learn 10 tips for avoiding the common pitfalls of conversations across racial groups

Discover ideas for addressing racial differences among your family and friends

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**Ajkula** · 12-21-2023, 05:19 PM

Storytelling is the language of the subconscious mind. It can help us understand truths that facts and maxims alone cannot communicate

The stories we tell ourselves are central to how we engage with the world around us. Stories help us make sense of the world, tell us who we are and why we re here, and define our purpose for existence. Stories empower us to learn from the experiences, successes, and failures of others, and can guide us as we make difficult choices in our own lives. They can entertain us; instruct us; and, above all, connect us to the world, to people in other times and places, to each other, and to our innermost selves. Stories remind us of the remarkable constancy in human nature and the human experience, while simultaneously helping us to learn and grow.

We are perpetually interested in questions related to the human condition: What does it mean to be human? Why are we here? What is the best way to live? These stories comprise The Great Conversation the iterative dialogue between thoughtful people across time and place about questions of origin, purpose, and destiny. Studying stories from The Great Conversation across media, across history, and across culture allows us insight into how people have answered these questions for themselves. Doing so helps us become better able to understand who we are and how we can live life richly and, well, in the here and now.

To examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our implicit desire to understand our lives and our place in the world, you will go on a globe-spanning, time-travelling, media-traversing tour in the 12 lectures of Storytelling and the Human Condition. Your guide is award-winning journalist, author, and storyteller Alexandra Hudson, founder of Civic Renaissance, a community of lifelong learners, which she invites you to join at Civic-Renaissance.com. In this course, she will illuminate the many ways stories shape our lives throughout history and across cultures.

In the Beginning

We re storytelling and story-listening creatures from day one. According to narrative paradigm theory, conceptualized by communication scholar Walter Fisher, all meaningful human communication occurs through storytelling. This theory argues that, whether we realize it or not, each of us are storytellers, or listeners of stories, at different times in our lives.

This isn t just true for our own moment but for people in all times and places. Every civilization and culture have stories they use to explore the big questions of the human condition, beginning from their earliest, pre-literate days. From the art on the walls of caves to oral storytelling traditions to the (much later) impact of writing and literacy, stories are always central to living lives of meaning in our world. As you examine ancient and influential stories like the Enuma Elish of Babylon, the creation story of Genesis, or the histories of Hesiod, you will gain a better understanding of how these earliest of stories share many of the same questions people have pondered across the history of our species.

The stories that Alexandra presents explore the breadth of the human experience: beginning with origin stories and progressing through themes such as suffering, humor, love and sex, pride, death, freedom, and much more. In each lecture, she crosscuts culture, era, and medium to show how stories from different disciplines, people, and places are in conversation with each other across generations and continents. All great art tells a story, as Alexandra shows. Whether you are examining ancient creation stories, analyzing the plays of Shakespeare, diving into modern poetry, or considering the lyrics of a song from the 20th century, you are invited to see how the drive to understand our world and ourselves in story is universal.

The Plot Thickens

The human condition, said 17th-century French polymath Blaise Pascal, is defined by the greatness and wretchedness of man. As there is duality to our nature as human beings, there is duality to our stories. Great stories lay bare a culture s values and expose truth where we might otherwise not wish to see it, stories to be used for good or for ill. You will learn in this course that as we explore the duality of stories and our human nature, we can see the way that we can use stories to nurture what is best in each of us and diminish what is bad all for the purpose of leading richer, more joyful, and more meaningful lives. Storytelling and the Human Condition explores questions, such as

How do some stories perpetuate division by creating us vs. them divides?
Why do we find it necessary to manufacture stories that exonerate us, and help us avoid personal guilt and accountability?
Who (or what) do we blame for human suffering? Why do we feel the need to blame someone at all?
Does it matter if the stories that are most important to us are true, if they help us live our lives with greater meaning? What is the relationship between history and myth, and how can both reveal higher moral truths?
What, if any, is the role of humor and laughter in the face of division, tragedy, and suffering?
Why do we sometimes delight in stories of other people s humiliation or comeuppance?
Why do we so often misplace our meaning in transient things such as lust, love, power, and possessions and what can we learn from some of history s greatest stories and storytellers about lasting personal fulfillment in life?
You ll discover that when it comes to the stories that we tell ourselves, there are few hard and fast rules about the recipe for a life well-lived. But there seem to be certain guidelines to good living that people have arrived at, independently of one another, across history, and that we might benefit from rediscovering, today. As we know, the best courses are conversations that don t offer pat, monolithic answers. The human condition is too complex for that. But we ll find that throughout this course, our thinking is refined, and our discussions lead us to more nuanced questions.

We re All Stories, In the End

Throughout Storytelling and the Human Condition, you will better appreciate the pervasive power of stories. You will explore stories from across history and culture and see that stories are told not only in written form, but also in painting, music, literature, oral poetry, film, and so on. As noted, all good art tells a story of the human condition, communicating timeless truths about our shared fate and hope as part of the human community.

What lessons do we take away from the poetry of the first published African American author Phyllis Wheatley, the stories of Russian novelist Dostoevsky, or a classic film like Dr. Strangelove? What are the merits to the stories we re surrounded by today, such as popular sitcoms like NBC s The Good Place or the HBO satirical drama Succession ? Does art always need to set out to explore deep questions in order to teach us lessons? As Alexandra highlights throughout the lectures, not necessarily but it usually does, anyway. Humans create based on our experience of the world, which makes our art a perpetual reflection of our experiences, passions, and pursuits our greatest hopes and achievements, as well as our darkest thoughts and impulses.

Whether it is a story of thwarted love, a character-building morality tale, an epic adventure, or something as simple as a nursery rhyme, the stories we create and share are a collection of the experiences and desires that make us human. Storytelling is the language of the subconscious mind. It can help us understand truths that facts and maxims alone cannot communicate. As you will discover, the exercise of storytelling, of mining our lives and experiences for stories and insights into the human experience, is the practice of the examined life and the life well-lived.

What Will You Learn?
Explore origin stories; questions of suffering, meaning, and death; and the breadth of the human experience love, pride, guilt, freedom, and more

Examine how stories have helped to form the character of children, adults, and even entire cultures

Study the stories of Phillis Wheatley and Hannah Arendt and discover how they used storytelling to transform their struggles into strength and created stories of beauty and grace from their trauma

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 07:52 PM

We all use signs and gestures in our daily communication, whether its nodding or shaking our head, waving to get someone s attention, or other hand gestures and body language we employ to emphasize what we say. But for about 500,000 Americans, signs, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements are their primary form of communication

We all use signs and gestures in our daily communication, whether its nodding or shaking our head, waving to get someone s attention, or other hand gestures and body language we employ to emphasize what we say. But for about 500,000 Americans, signs, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements are their primary form of communication. In American Sign Language for Everyone, Professor Julia Silvestri a native user of American Sign Language (ASL) and member of the Deaf community will show you how to use this unique language to meet people, share information about the world around you, express your opinion, and enjoy ASL literary forms.

In 24 engaging lessons, Dr. Silvestri will teach you the manual alphabet the handshapes for all 26 letters used for fingerspelling proper names or English words you cannot yet sign and dozens of other signs to enable you to converse using ASL and expand your ability to effectively communicate with those around you. During the lessons, you ll have many opportunities to practice signing and then self-test your vocabulary, as well as to watch your professor in conversation with another signer. You can also review the lessons as often as you like to improve your fluency in this fascinating and powerful visuospatial language.

What Is American Sign Language?

ASL is a relatively new language, only about 200 years old. In the early years of the United States, various groups of people developed their own forms of sign language. However, nothing was standardized until Dr. Thomas Gallaudet brought Laurent Clerc, a Deaf teacher from France to the United States. In 1817, they established the school now called the American School for the Deaf. At that school, local and indigenous sign languages were mixed with French signs to become the new American Sign Language.

As you ll learn in this course, ASL is

American. ASL is uniquely American, used natively only in the United States and some areas of Canada. While English speakers can communicate easily in any English-speaking country, the same is not true for ASL. About 300 unique sign languages exist around the world and they differ greatly from region to region.
Sign. ASL users communicate with signs, gestures, facial expressions, and body language. The signs you will learn in this course will form a basic foundation for communication; thousands more are available as you expand your signing. The American Sign Language Dictionary contains about 40,000 signs and, like any spoken or written language, it continues to expand.
Language. ASL is a complete, natural language with the same linguistic properties as spoken languages word formation, word order, grammar, and sentence structure. ASL is not a word-for-word translation of English. In fact, its only relationship to English is the occasional use of fingerspelled English words; but those words are technically not part of ASL. Like any language, ASL has regional accents, dialects, variations in rhythm, and slang.
New-to-You Language Terms

ASL and English are not at all similar. As Dr. Silvestri points out, one quick shortcut to thinking about those differences is to remember the character Yoda from the Star Wars films. While English typically follows subject-verb-object order, ASL grammar is more closely represented by Yoda s speech patterns in which the object often comes first. In American Sign Language for Everyone, you ll learn ASL grammar and syntax that differ from English, including

Topicalization. This is a mechanism of syntax that brings the main topic up to the front of the sentence. English doesn t use topicalization, but Japanese does. In ASL, topicalization helps create the diamond shape of communication the topic is presented first in the top center of the signing space, followed by as many additional details as desired, and finally a question or restatement of the topic idea.
Role-Shifting. As the signer is presenting details and opinions related to the stated topic, they can use role-shifting, a grammatical device to indicate perspectives other than that of the narrator. This is achieved by body movement, eye gaze direction, and facial expressions. It s also used in telling stories with multiple characters as a visual way of indicating who is speaking at a given moment.
Classifiers. Classifiers are handshapes that that give information about a previously presented topic. The different types of classifiers can indicate pronouns, movements, location, size, texture, and many other features.
Literary ASL

The lessons in this course are grouped into four sections: culture, conversation, community, and composition. In the first three units, you will learn about signs, introductions, and how to have conversations describing the world around you and your opinions. The final unit will introduce you to some of the most expressive and creative aspects of ASL.

Many linguistics experts believe signed languages are more expressive than spoken or written language. You will see those principles in action as signs, full body movements, and a wide variety of dramatic facial expressions intuitively convey meaning that would require many additional words in English. You will learn about

Storytelling. ASL lends itself to storytelling, with the signer adding meaning with body language and facial expression, layer upon layer. By using role-shifting, the storyteller can juggle many characters at once, indicating who is speaking and in what mood without having to use the attributions and descriptors that can sometimes slow down a story in English.
Visual Vernacular. Visual vernacular is a storytelling mechanism and sign-language art form that uses visually iconic sign language and body expression accompanied by mime. This form uses a greater number of generic signs and fewer signs that are specific to ASL, allowing meaning to be conveyed to anyone, whether the viewer knows ASL or not. It is a completely visual art form and has been compared to manga, video games, and performance art.
Poetry. ASL poetry serves the same function in the Deaf community as English poetry serves in the English-speaking world; we use it to teach our children from the youngest ages, express our concerns, and explore our feelings about the world. You ll learn how to create poetry using the phonological parameters of handshape, movement, orientation, location, and facial expression.
In American Sign Language for Everyone, you will gain insight into the art forms of this expressive and powerful visuospatial language. You will also build a strong foundation in ASL to connect and communicate with members of the American Deaf community. A whole new world of expression will be open to you.

What Will You Learn?
Explore the history of sign language and deaf people, and delve into the basic cultural norms of sign language communication

Master the building blocks of ASL, including gestural language and communication, the ASL alphabet, numbers in ASL, the importance of introductions in Deaf culture, facial expressions and greetings in ASL, and the linguistic parameters of ASL

Develop proficiency with questions, commands, everyday activities, food signs, time signs, and transportation and location signs

Expand narrative skills using ASL literary forms and learn how to craft simple compositions across a variety of ASL literary genres

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 07:55 PM

TTC - Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology
Released 2/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (6h 11m) | Size: 4.9 GB

Epigenetics is the science of living DNA, charting the chemical pathways that spur DNA into action by turning genes on and off

Epigenetics is the science of living DNA, charting the chemical pathways that spur DNA into action by turning genes on and off. This rapidly advancing field has overturned traditional ideas about heredity, revealing that both behavior and the environment can affect the way our genes work. Adding a new twist to the nature-versus-nurture debate, epigenetics researchers have discovered that

We Inherit More Than We Suspect. Changes that affect the activity of DNA can be passed from parents to children.
Epigenetics Works Quickly. Twenty minutes of exercise or just one meal can transform how your genes function.
Pollution Gums Up Genetic Machinery. Pollution from a wide range of chemicals has a long-lasting effect on gene expression.
While the Human Genome Project of the early 2000s was hailed as the key to understanding human heredity and disease, this historic effort was just the beginning. It has taken epigenetics to fill in the picture, explaining how the fixed code of our genome is implemented in countless cellular activities. The same goes for the genomes of every living thing on Earth; epigenetics calls the shots.

Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology covers this vital science in 12 in-depth, half-hour lectures, presented by noted British epigeneticist, physician, and science communicator Dr. Charlotte Mykura.

Lively and authoritative, Dr. Mykura explains how epigenetics is ubiquitous, influenced by activities like diet and lifestyle. For example, aging is largely an epigenetic phenomenon. So is our susceptibility to many diseases, as well as our body s ability to fight infection. You learn how epigenetics governs the X and Y chromosomes, the miraculous process of building an embryo, and the transmission of environmental experience between generations. And you investigate how epigenetics evolved in the first place and where the epigenetic universe might take us next, especially in the realm of medicine.

Enter the Epigenetic Jungle

Dr. Mykura begins with something we all learned in middle school: that the double helix of DNA is ingeniously organized to encode the complete genetic blueprint for an organism a masterplan that is present in practically all cells. Skin cells, nerve cells, bone cells, muscle cells, and female egg cells, among others, all have the entire plan. But that raises the question: How does DNA know what to do, where to do it, and when? After all, a foot doesn t grow out of your head, even though the instructions are right there in the cells of your scalp along with information for every other body part you have.

Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology clears up this mystery and more. It turns out that the graceful spiral-staircase structure of DNA familiar in introductory textbooks is not what the molecule looks like in action. That s why this course focuses on living DNA folded, twisted, constantly shapeshifting, and performing biological wonders thanks to epigenetics.

Dr. Mykura often refers to the epigenetic jungle, which includes your

Chromosomes and Genes. In humans, DNA is divided into 46 chromosomes, comprising some 20,000 genes, which are segments of DNA that code for proteins the workhorses of cellular metabolism.
Regulatory DNA. Between the genes are long stretches of non-coding DNA. Once called junk DNA because it was thought to be useless, scientists now suspect it plays a crucial role in epigenesis.
Methyl Groups and Histones. These are the masterminds of epigenetics, binding to DNA, transforming its shape, switching genes on and off, and performing other important functions.
A chromosome will spend most of its life looking something a bit like a hairball, says Dr. Mykura, with each of your 46 chromosomes forming its own hair ball clump. But there s method in that fuzzy mess, she explains, as a host of epigenetic molecules move into place to control the compaction and expression of different genes. In her explanation of the epigenetic jungle, Dr. Mykura is like an explorer making sense of the intricate ecology of the rainforest.

Discover a New World

Unlike some scientific revolutions, epigenetics has developed slowly, with mounting evidence pointing at extraordinary conclusions. An early hint came in the aftermath of the famine that gripped Nazi-occupied Holland during the last winter of World War II. One would expect health repercussions in the children born to malnourished mothers who survived the famine. But the health effects have persisted in subsequent generations, as if these descendants inherited something borne from their ancestors experience. Incredibly, these offspring appear to have inherited traits governed by epigenetic markers, not changes in their genome. This suggests there might be some truth to the long-discredited idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics, promoted by 19th-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Dr. Mykura presents and evaluates the evidence for this startling hypothesis.

She opens your eyes in other ways, too, exploring the epigenetics of

Diet. The worldwide obesity epidemic is happening far too fast to be explained by genetic changes. Epigenetic imprinting is the likely culprit, caused by poor diet and capable of being inherited.
Smoking. Tobacco smoke bathes lung tissue in over 60 cancer-causing compounds, overwhelming DNA damage-repair enzymes. With our epigenomes stunned by cigarette smoke, we re vulnerable to cancer.
Cannabis. The increased use of cannabis has seen a parallel growth in mental illnesses like schizophrenia, partly due to the epigenetic effects of cannabinoid compounds that behave like neurotransmitters.
The idea that specific foods and chemicals pose a health risk is hardly new. But Dr. Mykura zeroes in on exactly how harm is done at the cellular level and, alarmingly, how that damage can alter the epigenetic modifications that are passed on to our offspring. On a more positive note, she points out the beneficial epigenetic alterations that come from regular exercise, a plant-dominated diet, and periodic fasting, among other lifestyle choices.

Fascinated with biology since she was a child, Dr. Mykura pursued that interest through medical school and a research doctorate. In her decades of immersion in the life sciences, epigenetics has been a revelation to her. Epigenetics is like discovering a whole world you never even knew existed, she marvels. Whenever you really look at the hive of activity that brings our DNA to life, what you find is epigenetics. In this course, you, too, will be impressed by this powerful new science.

What Will You Learn?
Learn the difference between the static DNA illustrated in textbooks and the living DNA activated by epigenetics

Study the ways genes turn on and off

Discover the connection between your diet, health, and heritable traits

Investigate what happens when cells encounter tobacco smoke, THC, and other powerful chemicals

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 07:58 PM

Picture this: You were up late with a sick child last night and overslept your alarm by 30 minutes, this morning. You dash into work 45 minutes late and your anxiety is through the roof, but you give it your best effort to act calm on the outside. You re aware that your boss is fuming, and your teammates are disgruntled because you were key to the discussion

After the meeting, you walk outside to decompress, only to be inundated with texts from both work and home. You implode as you weigh your impossible choices. Life is running away from you, and you can t remember the last time you felt in control of anything.

If you relate to any part of the scene above, you aren t alone. In a survey from the nonprofit advocacy group Mental Health America, 83% of today s workers are experiencing signs of burnout, with demands of the work domain spilling over into demands of the personal life domain.

By learning the simple and accessible techniques provided in Mindfulness for the Workplace, you can find respite from life s inevitable frustrations and create a better work experience with practical, evidence-based solutions from our expert Wendy Quan author, entrepreneur, and pioneer in workplace mindfulness.

As Wendy makes clear, mindfulness is not a way to zone out, be blissful, or avoid life s challenges; nor is it about passive acceptance of your difficulties. It s a tool to lean into life s ups and downs in a conscious, healthy way. The potential benefits are many, including effective stress management and more enjoyment of life.

Wendy discovered and used mindfulness and meditation as a primary source of strength to get through a series of devastating crises in her life. Stunned by its effectiveness, she now trains and certifies others to do the same in the workplace.

With this insightful and engaging 12-lesson course, you will pick up tools to create a better experience for yourself at work and in life, no matter what your current circumstances are or what the future might hold.

Find Calm and Composure in Any Situation

But what exactly is mindfulness? And is it the same as meditation? If you re picturing people sitting cross-legged on the floor with blank minds and chanting with blissful smiles on their faces, you may misunderstand what mindfulness practice looks like.

While meditation is integral to creating mindfulness, it has nothing to do with emptying your mind. Rather, you can think of it as a pause button in your day, a time to concentrate on your breath, an image, or a word.

There are many types of meditation styles employing several techniques such as visualizations, imagery, and even moving meditations such as walking, tai chi, and yoga. This course focuses on a secular, non-spiritual approach that anyone from any walk of life can incorporate.

Five key traits of mindfulness will be reiterated throughout the lessons in a practical, applicable way. Those traits are

Presence Placing yourself in the present moment and not worrying about the past or future.
Awareness Noticing what you are experiencing within you and around you.
Non-judgment Not getting caught up in a stream of likes and dislikes and recognizing when you are judging.
Being with what is Accepting that your situation is happening, so you can move forward.
Kindness Both toward yourself and others, an excellent way to check your words and actions is to ask yourself Is it kind? Is it true? Is it helpful?
Learn Simple Techniques Anyone Can Do

Throughout the course, expert Wendy will guide you to try different breathing and thinking techniques that have the potential to immediately decrease your stress and increase your awareness.

An example of a simple and direct technique you can employ when facing tough interactions is the S.T.O.P. technique

S Stop what you're doing

T Take a breath

O Observe what's going on in and around you

P Proceed to your next action with intention

These methods are simple and easy and can be done anywhere, even in the presence of others. The only rule you need to keep in mind is to let go of your expectations and judgment for each session. There is no right or wrong here, only your experience. In fact, the best way is to approach your practice as a beginner every time.

How to Deal with Difficult People

This course will equip you to handle one of the biggest sources of frustration for many: other people. Researchers estimate that unresolved conflicts are a factor in at least half of voluntary departures from jobs.

Even if you have a decent handle on your inner composure, you cannot control the actions and behavior of others. However, you can control your reaction to them, which changes how you feel. Wendy demonstrates how infusing your interactions with mindfulness can completely transform your experience with difficult people.

Your Life Is an Adventure

Life is amazing. And then, it's awful. And then, it's amazing, again. In between the amazing and the awful, life can be ordinary, mundane, and routine. But we are here to engage in the human experience.

What most of us don't always understand is that we have the power to make this experience a great one for ourselves, if we can rise above our day-to-day struggles to see that they are just part of life and eventually will pass.

When you integrate mindfulness practice into your daily routine, you'll begin to recognize life as an adventure, so that you don't rush through it and wonder later where all the years went.

Here are a few of the benefits you may get from cultivating mindfulness

Reductions in stress, anxiety, and depression;
Increased resilience;
Fewer negative and ruminating thoughts;
Lower blood pressure and rewiring your brain in healthy ways; and
Clearer thinking, better decision-making, and more creativity.
Many people find that mindfulness makes such a big difference in their lives that they often feel called to spread this knowledge to others. Knowing this, Wendy also devotes a lesson from this series to lay out ideas and best practices for setting up your own mindfulness group and then shares mistakes to avoid.

With our inspiring series Mindfulness for the Workplace, Wendy will equip you with every tool you need to reduce stress, handle people better, and have a better work-life balance, even if your workload stays the same.

You, too, can be empowered to transform your life by simply pausing during your day to focus and breathe.

What Will You Learn?
Discover the five key traits of mindfulness and how they can help you find calm and composure in any situation

Learn how to infuse your interactions with mindfulness to completely transform your experience with difficult people

Find out how to integrate mindfulness practice into your daily routine, so you can recognize life as an adventure

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 08:01 PM

Wildlife is all around us in North America: in the air, on land, underwater. Not only are these animals astounding and fascinating to see, but they re also more important to our survival than most of us realize.

There s a fantastic array of native mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates that populate the North American continent. Consider

Wild Native Bees, of which there are approximately 4,000 species that have existed in North America for millennia;
American Alligators, whose bite is the force equivalent of the weight of two concert grand pianos; or
Wild Salmon, who travel as far as 1,800 miles up North American streams to spawn.
And those are just three of the many remarkable species out there. Some of them you may not know as well as you think you do, and others you ve probably never heard of. All of them play an important role in our ecosystem. As human activity takes a heavy toll on the natural ecosystems we depend on, it s more important than ever to understand native species and why their survival is so imperative.

In Field Guide to North American Wildlife, join author and television host David Mizejewski, a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation, for a fascinating 12-lecture course that focuses on 12 wild animals found throughout North America. You ll meet a two-foot-long salamander that breathes through its skin. You ll follow a single monarch butterfly on its astounding 3,000-mile journey from southern Canada to central Mexico. You ll discover how black bears may offer key insights into human health, and so much more. This course is a chance to experience the beauty and wonder of these incredible animals and to learn why safeguarding their future is so crucial to our own.

Incredible Insights into Incredible Animals

Your experience of Field Guide to North American Wildlife will be like a virtual zoo that you can tour at your leisure. The 12 fascinating animals featured in this course reveal great insights into the animal kingdom that will have you appreciating these animals in entirely new ways. A few of the species you ll meet include

Monarch Butterflies: In most cases, the monarch butterfly only lives in its adult butterfly form for a few weeks, just long enough to complete the reproductive process. The generation of monarchs that migrates, however, is an important exception to this rule. These monarchs live some eight times as long as the generation that preceded theirs. And as small and delicate as they are, they re strong enough to fly from southern Canada all the way to their wintering grounds in Mexico.
Leatherback Sea Turtles: These turtles can maintain a body temperature of around 79 degrees Fahrenheit despite the conditions around them something no other living reptile can do. How? Rather than generating heat metabolically via internal core body functions, leatherbacks generate it kinetically through the constant pumping of the muscles that power their massive flippers. Because of this, some leatherbacks can even be found north of the Arctic Circle.
Screech Owls: One way to spot these tiny, elusive owls is to look for mobbing songbirds. When a group of songbirds locates a screech owl (or any owl, for that matter), they ll gather all around it, alarm calling and swooping close to the owl. When songbirds mob like this, they re trying to scare off a potential ambush predator by letting it know that its cover has been blown. Screech owls, however, tend to be indifferent to these mobs if they aren t actively hunting.
Salamanders: An underappreciated group of animals, salamanders are actually some of the most common and numerous types of vertebrate wildlife in many of our ecosystems. In fact, if you added up the biomass from salamanders in many eastern forests, it would equal the biomass of all the other vertebrate wildlife of all species living in that forest. So why are salamanders so infrequently seen by most people? Because they live in places out of sight to us, including underwater like where the giant hellbender salamander lives.

Wild Tales of Struggle and Survival

David can tell you plenty about these animals (and does), but what makes Field Guide to North American Wildlife such a fascinating learning experience is that he also gives you a sense of what it s like to be one of these wild animals.

A powerful way to help people appreciate wild animals, and the challenges they often face in coexisting with us, is to show people what the world must look like through their eyes. Admittedly, we can t know exactly what animals think and feel; but through the imaginative power of storytelling, we can learn their point of view about some of the things they experience.

Each lecture of the course includes a fictional story based on the real-life behavior of the animal species, explaining its behavior, habitat, and daily struggles for survival. Among the characters you will meet are

Chanifir is a red wolf who s recently left her family pack and followed the impulse to find a mate and, with him, claim a territory and establish a new pack.
Zenya is a blue orchard mason bee who flees her habitat in a brush pile and sets out gathering mud to build a nesting tunnel in an old log.
Mauchy is a black bear who wanders through a New Jersey neighborhood in search of things to eat and finds himself face to face with humans.
Taya is a javelina whose encounter with unleashed dogs illustrates how this incredible animal tries to defend itself from danger.
By the end of Field Guide to North American Wildlife, you ll feel like you ve finished an adventure into the wild. More than that, you ll come away with a newfound appreciation of, and concern for, our planet and the many incredible varieties of life that step across its soils, swim through its rivers and seas, and soar along its breezes.

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Learn how to spot red wolves in the wild based on their tracks and kill remains

Discover the reasons why wild salmon are so important for land ecosystems

Explore ways you can play a part in helping horseshoe crabs survive as a species

Consider the reasons why Virginia opossums have greatly expanded their range

Find out what you should, and shouldn t do, when you encounter a black bear

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 08:05 PM

Four hundred years after his death, William Shakespeare's plays continue to live on vibrantly and remain among the most staged, even in modern theater. But just what is it about his work that has made him a household name? While little is known about the man's life, thankfully, we have a written guide his words to help us decode how his plays were meant to be interpreted and performed.

If you've ever been curious about everything that goes into a modern theatrical production of a Shakespeare play, here is your chance to peek behind the curtains in Experiencing Shakespeare: From Page to Stage. Professor Alissa Branch, award-winning actor, director, and creator of an advanced Shakespeare performance curriculum presents 12 riveting lessons that reveal how today's actors go about exploring, rehearsing, and performing Shakespeare s plays. She is accompanied by Brooke and Kam, two professional stage actors who will help you see the bard s work from the perspective of the players.

The Pact between Performers and Audience

Experiencing a play in performance involves a willing suspension of disbelief. When you go to the theater as an audience member, you make an unspoken pact with the actors telling the story, agreeing to involve yourself in the imaginary circumstances of the play. Likewise, the actors agree to do their best at every performance to present the story in a way that makes it feel spontaneous and exciting, as if it were unfolding for the very first time right in front of the audience.

For this magic to happen, there is a tremendous amount of work that must happen beforehand, and the performers must make many decisions. In Elizabethan theaters, there was a back wall to the stage, but not much scenery was built or changed from scene to scene or performance to performance; the audience was expected to imagine what they could not see by listening to the words that described the action.

This means that acting Shakespeare requires the actor to paint the scenery with their words, to use their body and voice to express and create an entire onstage world for the audience. Fortunately, Shakespeare gives the actors many clues in his texts about how to do that.

Just Who Was This Legend?

To understand his plays, it is helpful to know about the man behind the words and the theater culture in which he lived. But if you're a Shakespeare enthusiast, you might already know there is debate about who Shakespeare was. Some 19th- and 20th-century scholars claim that the name "William Shakespeare" was just a front for some other author who for their own reasons of royal rank or possibly even gender did not want their identity to be publicly known.

But here are some facts we can firmly establish about Shakespeare

He was a playwright from Stratford-upon-Avon who lived from April 1564 to April 1616.
He was the son of a successful glove-maker, which makes it almost certain that he attended the town's grammar school.
He was married with three children and eventually left his family to pursue theater in London.
He worked as an actor; a successful playwright; and, eventually, a partner in a popular acting company.
He retired in Stratford and seemed to have died there at 52.
It is useful to know that he attended English grammar school because these schools prized classical literature and history, taught pupils Greek and Latin, and required a lot of oral recitation of knowledge from every student. This makes it clear that Shakespeare received an education rigorous enough by any modern standards to have learned the skills necessary to become a playwright.

And there s also the genius of Shakespeare s language. He utilized 17,677 words across his body of work, inventing new ones, and innovating how they were used. In fact, scientists assert that his work alters the way our brains respond to language!

Exploring the Toolbox

Throughout these lessons, Professor Branch guides you on an exploration of specific tools that modern actors use in rehearsal to unlock Shakespeare's verse and bring his plays to life onstage. The language he wrote for his characters can be intimidating, and today's actors are responsible for figuring out how to honor its complexity.

One of the essential tools available to help us decode this is Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter or blank verse which means one line is made up of 10 "beats" positioned in a roughly "unstressed/stressed" pattern. This heartbeat-like rhythm naturally falls into the tendencies of the English spoken language and helps to support the acting by giving clues with the emphasis of critical words and moments. Some of the other important tools include

Letting the Verse Lead: Unlike modern plays with submerged objectives, Shakespeare's characters often say exactly what they want; so, analyzing their language is the key to actors' understanding of physical movement.
Rhetoric: Shakespeare s characters use persuasive verbal techniques like witty banter, emotional augments, and logical reasoning in both verse and prose to accomplish their goals.
Soliloquy: Shakespeare often uses a monologue spoken by a character, not to be overheard by other characters in a play. Shakespeare breaks the "fourth wall" and gives his audience unique access to his main characters when they turn and address the audience directly.
Verse versus Prose: A closer examination of the shifts that Shakespeare makes between writing in poetry and prose provides instruction on the characters' feelings and behavior toward each other.
From the First Rehearsal to Opening Day

Once you have considered how actors and directors dive into the texts, Professor Branch gives you an intimate, behind-the-scenes peek at the rehearsal process and the designing and directing of the plays. From decisions made during practice to the myriad of jobs needed to support the actors producers, props persons, costume designers, stage managers, and more there are a staggering number of responsibilities.

Every production team must ask themselves three crucial questions when preparing to bring a play to the stage

Who will watch this performance?
What experiences, perspectives, and biases might this audience bring that is different from the perspectives an Elizabethan audience might have?
Why are we performing this particular play for this particular group of people?
Now, with Experiencing Shakespeare: From Page to Stage, you can take a deeper look at these questions. You will look back into the playwright s background, the theater culture of the Elizabethan era, and the acting toolbox Shakespeare embedded in his plays all of which will come together to bring you a richer appreciation of the genius behind the words and how they are performed today.

What Will You Learn?
Find out why, more than 400 years after Shakespeare s death, his plays persist in being among the most staged

Learn about theater culture in the Elizabethan era to get a deeper, humanized understanding of Shakespeare s texts for performance purposes

Discover the brilliant tricks that Shakespeare used to give clues and hints to actors, including his use of iambic pentameter and other tools like antithesis within the words themselves

Take a look at the rehearsal process, beginning with an initial read-through, called "table work"; then blocking movement; and, finally, scene repetition

Examine the many behind-the-scenes jobs required for a production of this level, from set builders and prop managers to producers and choreographers, with special attention to the costume designer and stage manager

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 08:08 PM

TTC - Creation Stories of the Ancient World
Released 1/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 12 Lessons (5h) | Size: 4.18 GB

Thus it is said of Ptah: He who made all who gave birth to the gods, and from whom everything came forth the Egyptian Memphite Theology

Creation stories, found within many ancient cultures, are narrative accounts of the ultimate origins of the universe, the earth, and humanity. Often embodied as epic poetry, and told through the acts of divine beings, creation stories illuminate the values, beliefs, and creeds of the earliest civilizations.

Within the scope of the ancient world, the cultures of the Mediterranean produced a stunning wealth of literary accounts of creation. Here, we find compelling creation stories in texts from cultures such as ancient Mesopotamia, often called the birthplace of civilization, and the majestic empire of ancient Egypt, as well as lesser-known cultures such as Ugarit and the Hittite civilization, and the more familiar Greek and Israelite worlds. Within this tradition, you will look at

The Sumerian Debate Between Bird and Fish, which refers to four deities who set up the divine rules of heaven and earth, laid out the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and populated the marshes with fish and birds, instructing them with regard to divine rules.
The Baal Cycle of ancient Ugarit, which develops a theme that recurs in other cultures of the Mediterranean: that of a storm-god who battles other gods in a struggle for universal supremacy, and who ultimately rules over and sustains the earth and the cycles of nature.
How the creation stories of the ancient Mediterranean cultures offer distinct conceptions both of how human beings came to exist, through divine acts, as well as why, with accounts explaining human existence in terms ranging from labor for the gods to an exalted role as the pinnacle of creation itself.
In 12 dynamic and thought-provoking lectures, Creation Stories of the Ancient World offers you a penetrating look at the origin stories of the great civilizations of the Mediterranean. With the inspired guidance of Professor Joseph Lam of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, you ll delve into the creation accounts of civilizations ranging from Mesopotamia (Babylon) across the breadth of the ancient Near East to Greece in the West, and encompassing traditions from Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, and ancient Israel.

Discover Seminal Conceptions of Universal and Human Origins

Studied together, the creation texts produced in the Mediterranean shed fascinating light on the cultures they represent, and, more broadly, on the larger unfolding of human societies, offering vivid views into ancient conceptions of space, time, causality, and the forces governing the natural and human worlds.

For each culture, you ll follow Professor Lam through excerpts from iconic texts, uncovering key themes and conceptions regarding universal origins, set against the historical and political backgrounds that produced these written accounts. You ll also learn how the texts were understood within their cultures, and the ways in which shared thematic material between traditions indicates a high likelihood of cultural contact across the Mediterranean as these cosmologies developed.

And Professor Lam will demonstrate how creation stories served a number of interrelated purposes, from theological understanding and conceptualizing the forces of nature to the affirmation of social and political realities. These insightful lectures unpack the rich creation traditions of a pivotal region of the ancient world.

Explore the Power, Majesty, and Meanings of Ancient Creation Texts

Within the course s richly detailed inquiry, you ll explore origin stories in traditions such as

Creation Accounts of Ancient Mesopotamia Take the measure of the Babylonian Creation Epic, Enuma Elish, which portrays the genesis of the world and humanity through a nucleus of deities, placing the city of Babylon at the center of the universe. Also study the Atrahasis Epic, with a contrasting depiction of humanity s creation, set within the narrative tradition of the Flood;
The Egyptian Creation Traditions Encounter the pantheon of Egyptian gods related to creation, encompassing groups of deities and also the gods Amun, Ptah, and Khnum. Study Egyptian images of creation, from those depicting the spontaneous emergence of life from a primordial chaos to those of deities spitting or speaking other deities into existence;
The Hurro-Hittite Kumarbi Cycle In two passages from this important text named for the Hurrian deity Kumarbi, witness how universal cosmic order is established through the struggle of two entangled lineages of deities who compete for supremacy. Also study the text s account of how the world was created, with the heavens and earth cut apart from a single whole;
The Theogony of Hesiod Delve into this great work of Greek epic poetry, portraying the begetting of the gods and the development of the cosmos through generations of divine conflict. Follow the story of succession from the battle between the gods Ouranos and Kronos, where an act of castration establishes the order of the world, to ultimate cosmic stability under Zeus; and
The Judeo-Christian Genesis Chart the contours of the seven days of creation in the biblical Genesis 1, depicting human beings as the embodiment of divine presence in the world. Grasp the contrast between this account and the portrayal of creation in the Garden of Eden story (Genesis 2), which highlights humans as tillers of the soil, reflecting the daily realities of ancient Israelites.
Demonstrating a phenomenal knowledge of these traditions, and incisive interpretive skills, Professor Lam leads you in a richly layered investigation of the texts, the thematic interconnections between them, and their core societal functions. His commentary makes clear how the stories served as validation of the political orders that produced them, as reflections of the vital role of agriculture in these cultures, and as explorations of the boundaries between the human and divine worlds.

In the creation texts of the ancient Mediterranean region, we can witness how ancient peoples conceived of the creators of their world, and the natural order of that world. As such, creation stories show us how early cultures made sense of the human condition, in theological, philosophical, and political terms. This ancient perspective influenced the later cultures that would follow, meaning the stories ancient peoples used to understand their world have been woven into the larger tapestry of world history and culture, touching our lives our art, literature, religion, philosophy, and more even today.

What Will You Learn?
Explore some of the best-known and most-celebrated examples of the creation story genre, including the Babylonian creation epic of Enuma elish

Look at some examples of the genre that might be less familiar, such as the Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Investigate certain patterns or themes that recur throughout these stories and see that some of them are specific enough that the connection does not seem to be accidental

Ponder questions about the stories social and political significance within their historical contexts

Take a psychoanalytical approach with some of the stories to help uncover the depths of meaning within a story

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**Ajkula** · 12-22-2023, 08:11 PM

Cooking: Is it art or is it science? As the great culinary chefs worldwide tell their students, it is both.

We all know people who seem to have been born with unique culinary talent they never use recipes and rarely employ measuring spoons but seem instead to have a preternatural understanding of flavor, texture, and aroma. These artists turn a bare pantry and a few leftovers into a meal beyond imagining; and although you were standing there the entire time, you still are not entirely sure how they did it.

Now, you can also master the skills of great chefs. With science and practice, you can become a culinary magician, astonishing your friends and family with your newfound knowledge and skill, creating dishes that nourish the body and feed the soul.

Enter the secret world of great culinarians with two experts, Sean Kahlenberg, Assistant Professor of Culinary Arts at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, New York, and Ted Russin, Acting Dean of the CIA s School of Culinary Science and Nutrition. In Cooking Better with Science, their joint expertise will guide you through the world of leveraging science to cook with greater finesse.

The Science of Pizza

Start by following your expert chef into the kitchen to make what seems like a very simple and ordinary dish: pizza. Deceptively simple in practice, making pizza involves complicated and fascinating science. Garnished with the colors of the Italian flag, the pizza Napoletana is the most quintessential of pizzas. According to legend, it was created for Queen Margherita of Savoy during her visit to Naples in 1889, and little has changed about this perfect pizza since. Topped only with simple tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, and basil leaves, it has captured hearts and imaginations across Italy and around the world for generations.

With Chef Kahlenberg s savvy instruction, you will see how easy it is to turn fresh milk into curds that are heated and stretched to make mild, smooth, fresh mozzarella. Combined with basil and a simple, homemade pizza sauce, you have the perfect pizza toppings. Learn how Chef Kahlenberg makes pizza dough and explore the different ways you might make your own. Through step-by-step instructions, you ll see that it s easier and less time-consuming than you might think, and so, so delicious.

After making your pizza with Chef Kahlenberg, turn to the CIA s culinary laboratory where Dean Russin works his own magic. With a brief background lesson on proteins and covalent bonds, Dean Russin takes us through the paces in his lab to explore the science of stretch. Using a texture analyzer, discover how a culinary scientist performs an extensibility test, then learn a low-tech version that you can do right in your kitchen at home. You can choose just the right combination to create your ideal pizza dough through careful analysis of flour, sheer force, time, and consequent extensibility.

Most pizza dough requires the help of gluten and yeast to rise to chewy perfection, and we ll return to the lab to consider these critical components of pizza dough. While the gluten in dough determines the physical properties that allow dough to stretch as we mix, it is yeast that provides leavening and flavor. This single-celled fungus, usually Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer s yeast, acts through time and fermentation for bold flavor profiles and thick, chewy crusts. You ll learn the correlation between time and flavor to see why some restaurants keep their pizza dough in a cooler for up to five days before baking.

With the science of both gluten and yeast in mind, you can begin to experiment with your own dough, creating pizzas with bold flavors, textures, and aromas. As a bonus, your expanding understanding of gluten and yeast will inform your other baking, including a wide range of bread, from whole-wheat loaves to perfect naan.

A Perfect Chicken Dinner

What can I make tonight? Is there something easy, delicious, and savory that my family will love, but that is still great for guests and special events? Yes! Roasted chicken always rises to the occasion. Elegant enough for company, but inexpensive enough for every day, the humble chicken seems to do it all if you know how it s done. Chef Kahlenberg takes you to the kitchen to share the secrets of restaurant chicken. Learn to prepare your bird, from tying and seasoning to carving and serving. Discover what restaurants do to ensure that chicken is moist and evenly roasted; what sides pair well with chicken; and how to prepare those sides from scratch, including carrot pur e, broccoli, pan gravy, and sherry gastrique.

Once you understand how to create an unparalleled chicken dinner, turn your attention to the science that underlies the magic. How do we transform cold, raw chicken into a culinary delight of golden-brown skin and warm, juicy meat, bursting with flavor and aroma? Heat, enzymes, proteins, coenzymes, glycogen, anaerobic respiration, and resulting acid learn the metabolic processes from the muscle contraction of freshly butchered meat to its final transformation into perfectly cooked food on the table.

Learn all about the Maillard reaction, an essential reaction between proteins and sugars responsible for flavorful browning. Soon, you ll identify it everywhere: on the crust of bread fresh from your oven; on the surface of seared meat; and that crispy, browned chicken skin on your dinner table. Follow along as Dean Russin describes how Maillard browning works together with the proteins in flour to develop a flavor roux for your pan gravy, an insight into one of the most fundamental reactions in cooking.

Paella Mixta

Originally cooked and served in a wide, shallow pan called a paella, this essential dish of Spain traces its roots to the Spanish city of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast. The mixta, or mixed paella, combines short-grain rice, meat, seafood, sausage, and vegetables and is colored by vibrant yellow saffron. This is Spanish comfort food at its best. Let Chef Kahlenberg show you the essentials of paella: a base of slow-cooked vegetable sofrito, short-grain rice cooked into a pie in flavorful broth, seared meat, and vegetables lightly cooked to retain their color and texture. You will even learn the best way to cut an artichoke! Season your paella with a little salt and pepper, and garnish with chopped parsley. Call your family to the table and serve dinner straight from the pan, with a slice of lemon. Let this home-cooked fare bring you together, a fast favorite in every family.

When you have finished your meal and cleaned up (just one pan!), return to the lab to learn more about starch and vegetables, two critical components of paella. First, Dean Russin explores rice, the ideal vehicle for the carbohydrates that densely organize within each grain. Consider various rice types different processing and cooking methods and study each variety s sensory and nutritional attributes. Finally, explore heat and time in relation to vegetable moisture and consequent texture. You will learn how vegetables store water, how heat levels affect that storage, and the texture and flavor outcomes from different cooking techniques. Reflect on this new-found knowledge to better understand the method and ingredients in your paella mixta.

Eggs Three Ways

Not all eggs are created equal, nor are all egg dishes. The three recipes presented merge styles from around the world, but also challenge your knowledge about egg cooking as well as your understanding of chemistry and cookery! Eggs are simple, but their presence in cooking is pervasive and vital. Join Chef Kahlenberg in the kitchen to learn how to prepare a divine and rustic tortilla espa ola, a light and savory Gruy re and Parmesan cheese souffl , and a world-class salmon benedict with creamy b arnaise sauce. Whether served for brunch, dinner, or anything in between, all three recipes are sure to please the most discerning palates. If you once considered yourself more an aficionado of food rather than an artist of cuisine, these three dishes represent a graduation into the culinary majors.

Most store-bought eggs appear uniform in size and shape. This appearance is deceptive. Different eggs, often of different ages, possess a pH ranging from seven for the newly laid to nine or even nine and a half in eggs that are a few weeks old. Return to the lab to witness experiments that will expand your understanding of egg texture and viscosity and how they are affected both by the pH of the egg and the presence of potatoes and oil in our tortilla espa ola.

Texturally, a b arnaise sauce and a souffl could not be more different. Incredibly, they are both made of eggs. In our final episode, learn that the integration of either lipids, in the case of the b arnaise, or air, for the souffl , determines their structure. Keep your souffl from collapsing and your b arnaise sauce from breaking by getting a deeper understanding of the nature of eggs.

Bring Your Expertise Home

Whether this is your first cooking course or your one hundred and first, you will be charmed and inspired by the deft instruction of our culinary experts. These lessons provide new and intriguing opportunities for cooks to grow across the spectrum of skill and interest. Join Chef Kahlenberg and Dean Russin as they introduce you to delicious recipes and the science that makes the recipes possible.

What Will You Learn?
See first-hand, the secrets and science that make the perfect pizza, roasted chicken, paella, or egg dish

Discover what makes great food great

Experiment with common kitchen ingredients to understand the genius of a well-made meal

Make better decisions in the kitchen by understanding food science

Learn the science behind your favorite foods and discover how to get restaurant-quality results

Cultivate the art of cooking and the practice of science with two charming experts from The Culinary Institute of America

Learn six recipes that will have your friends and family asking for seconds every time

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