Lectures
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Joe dismisses love publicly in his
lectures
and privately to friends: according to him it's just "biology".
After ISIS announced its intention to declare a “province” in Upper Egypt in April 2015, Derbala toured the Upper-Egyptian IG strongholds, giving public
lectures
countering ISIS ideology.
When the Americans have intervened abroad – as they did in Iraq – Europe has responded with grandstanding
lectures
about “imperial overstretch.”
We even sent videotapes of
lectures
farther afield.
Today, teachers record and upload their lectures, and, thanks to the Internet, students anywhere in the world can watch them as many times as they want.
A People’s EconomicsNEW HAVEN – We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public.
You can’t attend all the lectures, panel discussions, and auctions where everyday dramas and dreams are bartered.
And, contrary to popular belief, these are not two-hour-long online
lectures
with no practical component.
Indeed, while she acknowledged that young men and women have “rebelled” against the established parties, Ahn supposedly spurred them to do so through a series of
lectures
called “Youth Concert.”
But the developed world’s
lectures
to the developing world were never particularly useful.
We all know that drivers using mobile phones are far more likely to have accidents, or that students using laptops during
lectures
learn less.
This means no honorific titles (fellow, senior fellow), no named lectures, no keynote speeches headlining conferences or events.
And
lectures
and presentations should always provide an opportunity for vigorous questioning and debate.
Universities, too, will have global classes, with students joining lectures, discussion groups, and research teams from a dozen or more universities at a time.
But he should dwell upon the implications of such an approach between board meetings, lectures, and photo calls.
There is obviously something peculiar about a global financial system in which the richest country in the world, the United States, borrows more than $2 billion a day from poorer countries – even as it
lectures
them on principles of good governance and fiscal responsibility.
Protests against Nazi racism were stifled with stern Olympic
lectures
about the apolitical nature of sports.
After all, these days, compelling
lectures
and well-stocked libraries are available at the click of a button.
Instead of hearing more
lectures
from the IMF about cutting budgets, poor countries need larger budgets to pay for the required investments - roads, power supplies, ports, schools, and health clinics - to jump-start economic growth.
But if at least some people are suffering from real problems,
lectures
about the benefits of migration will only enrage them more.
Arab and Muslim leaders need to make this clear, be it in public pronouncements by politicians,
lectures
by teachers, or fatwas by leading clerics.
Four years ago, I gave a series of
lectures
at the invitation of the Ministry of Education and squeezed in a visit with my uncle, a Vietcong who stayed behind after the Communist victory.
While Holocaust deniers have been purged from German universities, Russian universities employ a number of professors of Russian history who conspicuously maintain the Gulag's absence from their
lectures.
Sure, PowerPoint presentations have displaced chalkboards, enrollments in “massive open online courses” often exceed 100,000 (though the number of engaged students tends to be much smaller), and “flipped classrooms” replace homework with watching taped lectures, while class time is spent discussing homework exercises.
For example, what sense does it make for each college in the United States to offer its own highly idiosyncratic
lectures
on core topics like freshman calculus, economics, and US history, often with classes of 500 students or more?
Professors could still mix in live
lectures
on their favorite topics, but as a treat, not as a boring routine.
A shift to recorded
lectures
is only one example.
The Khan Academy has produced a treasure trove of
lectures
on a variety of topics, and it is particularly strong in teaching basic mathematics.
For the time being, though, squabbles over the New Silk Road seem less painful to the two powers than enduring
lectures
from the West.
When he gave
lectures
about general relativity at Oxford University in 1931, the academic audience packed the hall, only to ebb away, baffled by his mathematics and his German, leaving only a small core of experts.
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