TTC - Black Holes Explained
TTC - Black Holes Explained | 2.64Gb
English | Course No. 1841 (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by Alex Filippenko | University of California, Berkeley | Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Imagine a region in space where the force of gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape. A region with physical conditions so extreme that they have not yet been reproduced in any terrestrial laboratory. A region so dense that an object as tiny as a walnut would have the same mass as our entire planet.
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TTC - Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers
Course No. 1499 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) | Taught by Edward B. Burger
Williams College | Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
6.79Gb @ RS & Sto
What is your definition of number?
The question is a challenging one because defining the abstract idea of number is extremely difficult. More than 2,500 years ago, the great number enthusiast Pythagoras described number as "the first principle, a thing which is undefined, incomprehensible, and having in itself all numbers." Even today, we still struggle with the notion of what numbers mean.
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TTC - Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear DVD
TTC - Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear DVD [Tutorial]
English | ASIN: B0010F0SBA | Course No. 1487 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) | 3,5 GB @ RS & Sto.to
Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? Which hospital has the best outcome for a given procedure? When is it a good idea to buy a product's extended warranty?
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TTC - How to Become a SuperStar Student [Video Training]
The Teaching Company - How to Become a SuperStar Student [Video Training] | 2,254 GiB
Taught by Tim McGee | Worland High School, Worland, Wyoming | Ph.D., Trinity College
AVI | 98 kbps | 448 x 320 | $149.95 | 12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture
When a high school student has trouble learning a subject like math or history, the problem may lie not in the teacher’s ability or the student’s I.Q.
Instead, it is often simply because the student has never been taught how to learn.
From the high school in the little town of Worland, Wyoming, comes a steady stream of honor students. They win scholarships. Get into top universities. Even have their writings published while still in high school.
Why—are they smarter than other kids? No. They have been shown how to become SuperStar Students by a widely acclaimed SuperStar teacher, Tim McGee.
Dr. McGee has found that many bright kids have trouble retaining what they read and get tangled up when trying to do writing assignments. So he teaches two simple yet powerful techniques that will give students an edge not only in high school but in college and adulthood.
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