Crash Course by John Green and Hank Green.
Truly truly truly great courses. Funny and easy understanding, though Hank speaks so quickly sometimes I have to rewind. : )
If you are in areas where youtube cannot be reached and you don’t know how to get around the firewall:
↑Bear with the subtitles.
I look forward to going to college every time I have finished an open course online. Hope you do, too.
2. Genetics
3. Experimental Biology and Communication
2. Biochemistry
Dino101(Dinosaur Paleobiology)
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For the trees’ sake, please please please please use e-books!
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Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Pages: 448
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Publisher: Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction
A novel you wouldn’t put down once opening the first page.
Barbara wrote with close attention to language and intelligent arrangement of plot. Only having read the first chapter, you would never get right what the novel is really about.
Generally, the 2012 novel focuses on the interactions between humans and the natural environmental they are living in, which leads to a core topic of today’s environmental situation:climate change. But not like what we read in Science, where climate change is drawn in a scientific way. No logical reasoning, non data analysis, climate change in Flight Behavior is lyrically written, tragic, sad, forcing innocent monarch butterflies abandon their hometown (also original wintering habitat) and flew all the way to a small town in southern U.S for survival.
Family matters, communities, scientists, butterflies, climate change, meanings of life, faith…
No more spoilers, hope you enjoy this book and after reading it, would see more respects in environmental conservation.
World consumption of paper has grown 400 percent in the last 40 years. Now nearly 4 billion trees or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.(source)
For the trees’ sake, please please please please use e-books!
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Rachel L.Carson, most famous for her Silent Spring, also completed many other excellent books on environmental conservation.
As an aquatic biologist early in her career, Rachel explored and admired the mystery of the seas with brain of a scientist. While as a woman worshiped the nature, she explored it with eyes of a sincere admirer.
As a gifted writer, Rachel whispered to us about the sea in the most beautiful descriptions, leading us to the seasons of an strange but engaging world. As a concerned scientist, she sharply stated the harm human activities did to the seas in a serious voice, making us think, facing disruptions of the ecosystem, what is the right thing to do.
Though the book was written in the 1950s and some of the statistics and facts might have been renewed, it is still a must-read book for everyone.
The sea is powerful but also fragile, is beautiful but her beauty could be forever ruined if we don’t start paying attention to the aquatic protection and restoration.
An inconvenient truth is a documentary film directed by Guggenheim. The 2006 movie is based on former Vice President of the U.S Al Gore’s lecture tour in which he educated citizens about Global Warming. Winning two Academy Awards for best documentary feature and best original song, the movies is a great success.
To me, whether it gained public popularity doesn’t matter. The movie has its unique educating meaning and I recommend that everyone should watch it.
Global Warming is not a rumor. It’s time we stop ignoring this fact.
The book An inconvenient truth: the Planetary Emergency of Global Warming And What We Can Do About It written by Al Gore was also published in 2006.
(World consumption of paper has grown 400 percent in the last 40 years. Now nearly 4 billion trees or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent.(source)
For the trees’ sake, please please please please use e-books!)
