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We are proud to present in collaboration with TED a curated series of talks plus specially commissioned educational support materials.
Social Sciences & Humanities
Psychology: Understanding Happiness
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Modules include:
- Martin Seligman on growing happiness
- Helen Fisher on why we love and cheat
- Paul Bloom on the origins of pleasure
- Dan Gilbert on freedom through limited choice
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Statistics: Visualizing Data
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Modules include:
- David McCandless on data visualization
- Chris Jordan on turning powerful stats into art
- Hans Rosling on stats that change your world view
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas on images as data
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Government and Politics: Cyber-Influence and Power
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Modules include:
- Ian Goldin on navigating our global future
- Wael Ghonim on the Egyptian revolution
- Rebecca MacKinnon on taking back the web
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Additional Wiley resources
Religion: Understanding Islam
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Modules include:
- Lesley Hazleton on reading the Koran
- Karen Armstrong on the charter for compassion
- Mustafa Akyol on faith versus tradition
- Maz Jobrani on stereotypes of Islam
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Sustainable Consumption: Reworking the Western Diet
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Modules include:
- Carolyn Steel on how food shapes our cities
- Britta Riley on building a garden in her apartment
- Ron Finley on guerrilla gardeners in South Central L.A.
- Ann Cooper on school lunches
- Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat
- Graham Hill on being a weekday vegetarian
- Dan Barber on his love of fish
- Marcel Dicke on eating insects
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Urban Planning - Ecofying Cities
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Modules include:
- A Steffen on hard choices facing humanity
- J Lerner on fixing urban problems
- E Dunham-Jones on retrofitting suburbia
- W McDonough on green design
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Links to Wiley resources
Environmental Science
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Modules include:
- Vicky Arroyo on adapting to climate change
- Johan Rockström on using change for innovation
- James Balog on the destruction of the ice fields
- Al Gore on mitigating climate change
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Links to Wiley resources
TED Studies: Media & Journalism - Covering World News
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Modules include:
- Ethan Zuckerman on citizen journalism
- Alisa Miller on the 'news about the news'
- Chimamanda Adichie on the dangers of a single story
- James Nachtwey on the power of photojournalism
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Science & Medicine
Marine Biology - The Deep Ocean
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Modules include:
- Edith Widder on light-producing animals
- Craig Venter on DNA and the sea
- Robert Ballard on deep-sea exploration
- Sylvia Earle on protecting the 'heart' of the planet
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Additional Wiley resources
Physics - The Edge of Knowledge
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Modules include:
- Murray Gell-Man on beauty and truth in physics
- Brian Greene on making sense of string theory
- Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
- Patricia Burchat on shedding light on dark matter
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Links to additional Wiley resources
Neuroscience - Mapping and Manipulating the Brain
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Modules include:
- Christopher deCharms on real-time brain imaging
- Sebastian Seung on building a connectome
- VS Ramachandran on mirror neurons
- Oliver Sacks on the biology of hallucination
- Also included: complete Instructor Materials
- Additional Wiley resources
Statistics: Visualizing Data
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Modules include:
- David McCandless on data visualization
- Chris Jordan on turning powerful stats into art
- Hans Rosling on stats that change your world view
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas on images as data
- Questions, assignments, key terms
- Links to additional Wiley resources
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