Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!198.15.118.135.MISMATCH!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.misty.com!usenet.stanford.edu!usenet.killfile.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin) Newsgroups: bofh.answers,bofh.audiots,bofh.dead-trees Subject: Re: Teaching Company Followup-To: bofh.audiots Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:37:13 -0500 Organization: Killfiles, Unlimited Lines: 61 Distribution: bofh Message-ID: References: <874myf1l90.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Reply-To: tskirvin@killfile.org NNTP-Posting-Host: d53-64-32-129.nap.wideopenwest.com X-Trace: flea.killfile.org 1405907416 18049 64.53.129.32 (21 Jul 2014 01:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@usenet.killfile.org User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 X-Note: Unless otherwise noted, I speak only for myself. X-Signature: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP tskirvin@killfile.org iQIVAwUBU8xx0jRtxyFGpqURAQJICQ/+M8djOVkURc0RH9aMj3E2UvbDLTsTDh5K pgGUthjwgrYO3RIR0ZxBrQEgiueYrOr3yibTD20nwS40HHVe3gW54K+QBcyvFifI WOYch6fF2aqVK8q438O6J1tChzh8IIo5+UpdJ644tPra2htcGgbVPvQxzAky5pny MmsFTPQEMDqLb65yVz/Va+AvmHytGE8vQdGsDJYLc4Foy1SAZn6t/nWQfMSir3WR 5f5CNVHIacqPDm0bHHWw16HejlJ7xLRRh4sWAvEOxKnzHTff+WZxpm97GkGUB0v5 G19Z8j6FbREtg3koNGICgW/gNcMFk+6BGlMhvPXggOHYimgD7fZAEC9+mwk+TfeL YwQ20keVR1nwWPNsbNrIo/1ImK7q6aZXw36gjQrx8JVTk9SGZ1Ls1UpxEPRW5I6I VmMLgIj690Nq6Yd3YygkMmTRlO0w/JvTZzg9nsR8cf2/Ca4HScgtVWCSieWqLSbr RD5yn7Y+J7mpz2sJVKxegnxSVLYEOZOBtmw5e2cqqJRTzFoPu6gfKMmXy0zi5f9+ ze/VtXYoqktRIgOUuuzqwPFuK0Hh1OWeL2x0xI52v/KpWSXWPAqxQaJOBx/1fl0l BDUpY7/V+5c9mj5SxzfFqu1kIQNcPaS8AB0YUWHQ7y4t5RFXiOTngevjSJMnaPje IlFGiPUGFe8= =i2SH Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu bofh.answers:373 Frossie writes: >> FYI, I liked that one. > I'm talking myself into resolving to write reviews for the ones I > finish. I encourage others to do the same :-) Which group? .audiots? (Adds groups, set followups.) This is what I've listened to so far this year: * Alexander and the Hellenistic Age - I'm listening to this right now. The first four lectures were about Alexander in particular, and made me *ANGRY* by being facile and biased. But once we got past that's it's improved because I'm actually learning things about the various cultures involved. I'm about half way through right now, and learning about Greek Novels (which I did not know existed). I'm happy now. * Legacies of Great Economists - I overall liked it, but Taylor's periodic lack of knowledge of history was *extremely* off-putting. * Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers - the parts where actual grounded military strategic theory exists was pretty fun. The parts where they're clearly making it up as they go along - air power, nuclear war - was scarier. * Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century - depressing and biased, but I learned some things so that's worth something. * Victorian Britain - Allitt makes the anglophile in me happy. Fun, light, probably vaguely accurate. * Lost Worlds of South America - I really liked this one. The narrator definitely had an agenda, but it was a *fun* agenda (pushing his theory of the Fanged God). This is probably my Dad's favorite course ever; he's probably going to go back and get the video version. * Questions of Value - I find the philosophy courses appealing lately for some reason. This felt fairly light, though. * Barbarians of the Steppes - I really like Kenneth Harl's course, but this seemed somewhat outside of his comfort zone. I still learned a *lot*, but it didn't hold together as much as usual. * Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon - this was pretty much two courses. The French Revolution side was clearly her specialty, and I learned a lot and felt that it was well put together. The Napoleon parts were a bit too fast and simple; I'd like to have a whole course on that by somebody that specializes in this. * Philosophy of Religion - this was fascinating and I've spent a lot of time considering it since the start of the year. In essence, this gave a lot of arguments for why we would believe in religion, and knocking them down - and the lecturer was still religious! Whee! - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@killfile.org) -- http://wiki.killfile.org/ Skirv's Homepage < <*> http://wiki.killfile.org/projects/ Skirv's Projects