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@@maithreyer7833 indeed

For sure, with the interactive elements and the physical enactment of parts of the lecture.

Fear leads to pain, pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate.

so have no fear. Mighty Mouse is here to save the day.

Pp

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@@btsjiminfacemm

LOL, I speak Bill and Ted since mid 80s... I didn't even notice. LOL. Its how I talk. People think I ain't smart because of my language sometimes, but most people who know me say I'm the smartest dude they ever met, and I've been to Carnegie Mellon.

Lmao yes

Kind of a nostalgic one, at least for me, being about to start online college clases due to the pandemic

Lol i had the same thought

I know. Was hoping it was going to lessen by now. Pretty much assuming those people will be coughing like crazy till the end of the 25 lectures.

i'm a 52 year old farmer on the canadian prairie and i'm watching these lectures out of interest and curiosity. my educational background is in engineering. absolutely thrilled to be alive in the information age

And on adderal haha

@@somethingginterestingg4275Which one?

Косово је Србија.

Thanks

@@rockroll7762 very immature

like what?

@@dragoncloud5497 cocaine

@HumanPerson 😂🤣🤣

adderall is a helluva drug (basically prescription meth)

😂 😂 😂

Are there anymore songs of his that you would like to recommend?

Should have scrolled down at least this far before I posted :/

It appears Tom McFadden has made a career out of teaching science to kids through song parodies. www.sciencewithtom.com Not surprising at all haha.

@@lea-nc5gn what about william??

Thank u for the useful info

I think so too.

Their energy is good but the information is very difficult to follow and understand.

I get the feeling they might be calling on something like coaches or comedians or theatrical instructors, where there tends to be an approach of excessive stimulation to keep people's attention. Personally, I find it confusing and distracting in almost any setting, but especially one where it feels out of place, like a highly informative setting. (That's how it feels to me, that is. Some people are bound to get more out of it than me.) That being said, yeah, there's absolutely no need to be rude, either, even if it's relatively light and jokey by KZfaq comment standards. Like the TA's before, learning to teach is a process, and I know for a fact that if I were in their shoes, it would take me a good while before I could do as well as any of them did. I don't think I could ever do as well as Dr. Sapolsky, though. He seems to really understand the relationship of planning, wording, prepared and in the moment delivery, and how important they all are in getting information to something of an "end point" in the listeners' brains.

@@Skelloween The trouble is that their style works against their objective. Compare with Sapolsky's smooth and expert savoir-teaching. He is a pro, those guys are fumbling beginners. Don't forget that under age 25 their pre-frontal cortex is far from being fully formed. They have plenty of time to learn the polish.

When their beard has grown as long as sapolskys they will then have ability to be as smoooooth

we've had thousands of millions years if not 3.5 billions of years of life on this planet to adapt or evolve into the creatures we are today. ☮️🎶

😂

His mom forced him

His DJ name is "Endo".

Check out his channel, sciencewithtom!

His manner is absolutely awesome for teaching, though, he's so passionate about that stuff

He does have some rap videos of his own

well, consider that this course from what I remember was made for non bio students, or did not have any prerequisites. I had almost no prior knowdledge of the subject before, so giving us only bare minimmum gives a way to better understand, as opposed to getting very technical. were it too complicated I would not have been able to cope with this. anyway, I feel like I understand more now, can be more cool if I approach a girl studying medicine and be more cool at parties. other than that I think i can understand behaviour better and hopefully can make more sensible choices. this rant is getting longer than expected.

Lol that's the American education system in a nut shell for you

These are not advanced classes. In the UK you study a subject in university. In the U.S university takes an extra year but you take subjects that are not just in your field of study. Many of these people will not have taken biology in years. Also making something accessible or telling people not to worry does not indicate a lack of knowledge, but having a problem with that does indicate a prejudice against non-specialists learning in "your" field.

Can you recommend some good MOOC's

These are people from a decade ago, knowledge percolates. We know much more distilled knowledge from our schooling than (most likely) the undergrad first years here. And they might also be liberal arts people with 0 advanced STEM schooling - this is free first year course after all.

Some of the students are humanities students wisely broadening their education. I'm not really sure why this made your brain hurt. ;)

Well they've also asked "what is cholesterol made of" so yeah... Seems like some concepts are not known to them

Stellar comment, Steven. HA!

Exactly. I mean, every public speaker has their period of desensitization to the audience. He’s clearly in the middle of his. He’s *in the process* of becoming more comfortable speaking publicly. I do hope that this information was provided in a book for the students though.

i've done taught for about a decade and a half in Japan. you can get used to it's actually much harder to quit teaching. Desensitization is a very good way to put getting used to public speaking in front of strangers. it's the most rewarding job to be under paid for. You can take the teacher out of the classroom. but you can't take the teacher out of person. Imagine giving a public speech to a classroom of pumpkins, not a classroom of the great pumpkins…that would be terribly nerve wracking. just plain old non-roudy pumpkins though i believe teacher's in Japan Imagine their students as ebi kaocha/small green shrimp pumpkins living life in peace. woo-hoo-oo-oo. i think i owe Mr. Lennon an apology. Aqua sea foam shame. Sorry about that one, Kurt. Sorry. The lecture was good. i learned a lot in a short time. Good job.

jUsT wAiTe ...

Very true. They both show their total lack of experience in communicating to an audience about subjects that are addressed to their frontal cortex and not just their limbic system, as Tom-the-rapper does, who thinks this should be a show for a youth concert.

It’s probably the recording environment and the acoustics of the room. Lower frequencies have more hearable resonant overtones and so when you have multiple low voices playing at once or a big low voice echoing against itself you get sound wave interference - it sounds muddy and can lose precision. That’s why the melody in most music is in the higher register and why when bass singers have the melody they tend to sing softly or close to the microphone.

Only foolish man modifies. God created everything perfect. You don't build a foundation, strike it with lightening, and wait a few billion years. Well, unless you're an idiot.

@@dakoderii4221 I guess you don't eat food, then.

@@dakoderii4221 Yeah that perfect cancer and alzheimer.

Did you get the answer?

@@karandeepsingh1656I believe he may have been referring to that the very important Catecholamines (such as Epinepherin, Norepinephrine and Dopamine) are Tyrosine derivatives. Of these 3, Epinephrin is the only substance acting as a hormone - while the two others act within the nervous system.

I think that's a bit beyond the scope of this course

Thank you for that.

Sodium chloride is not toxic. It's your body's main source of both sodium and chlorine- two elements your body MUST have. Besides "unprocessed" salt would not be anything close to pure sodium...

I think they're referring to "Why zebras don't get ulcers" written by Robert Sapolsky himself. There's a website for the course with links to all the relevant readings and textbooks. www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/reading-materials.html

geekoids? Is this a hormone I'm not familiar with?

it doesn't work that way. the best lecturers used to be TAs who gesticulate wildly and have difficulty with their wardrobe

PTH (parathyroid hormone) it does the opposite than calcitonine

Psych

Probably an after thought

A mystifying neglect - when the goal is to teach - not of the in-class lectures, but of nearly all the videos in this series.

Endothelial cells ARE epithelial cells; the "endo" just tells you where in the body those specific epithelial cells are generally found.

You've passed the test. Here, take the keys of the chocolate factory...

Why?

even grotesque. Imagine Sapolsky delivering this rant passing as education? Unthinkable.

When I was 14, my bio teacher taught "hypotonic" and "hypertonic" backwards. US education is pretty inconsistent among states, where math and science are concerned.

This is a class taught without prerequisites. Therefore, they can't assume that these students have had even basic chemistry

Nice burn, M.D.

In America, we cannot tell girls from boys. We lose in anything scientific after that.

Indian kids' education is more advanced than that of average Americans of the same age. That is why they end up managing many of the advanced-technology companies in the US.

This is the most important point about, not just this lecture, but all of them, the 25 of them. For some perverse reason, this "whoever recorded these" never got it. And in this case, it's not just the face, but the arms, like a drummer in a band. Yes, rapping may be a better outlet for their energy. Or doing an early 10-mile run before coming to the lecture.