Yale University
Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action
Yale University

Journey Conversations: Weaving Knowledge and Action

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

John Grim
Mary Evelyn Tucker

Instructors: John Grim

4.8

(159 reviews)

39 hours to complete
3 weeks at 13 hours a week
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There are 7 modules in this course

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1 video5 readings1 discussion prompt

The universe’s evolutionary development forces it to leave eras and to start new eras, which is taking place in our own moment in time. We’re in one such moment. We are being pushed out of the industrial era into a new era of Earth’s history”

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4 videos3 readings2 quizzes1 discussion prompt

A star is required for the production of carbon and oxygen and a galaxy is required for the production of stars. So the Milky Way galaxy as a whole is required for our hands. Understanding our cosmological nature is the first step into a new era.

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5 videos9 readings5 quizzes1 discussion prompt

We discuss the oxygen crisis two billion years ago and the endosymbiosis that dealt with it creatively. We too will deal with the enveloping crises of our time, first of all by tending to them, by taking responsibility for them.

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5 videos9 readings5 quizzes1 discussion prompt

The story of the isolated neutron’s quick decay and the neutron+proton’s long term stability as an illustration of the synergistic effects that will take place in Eco-cities. In ways we can only guess at, these new mutually enhancing relationships will lead to a qualitatively new vitality.

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6 videos6 readings6 quizzes1 discussion prompt

Understand the universe as self-organizing. Consider galaxies. It is the spiral structure of a galaxy that enables it to construct stars. Elliptical galaxies have lost this structure and have lost the capacity to construct stars. With planets it’s similar. The water, soil, and air enable it to bring forth life year after year. Soil in particular is a dynamic structure that required three billion years of life to construct. But it’s here now. So long as we maintain its health and integrity, it will bring forth food. But to lose that dynamic structure or to lose the dynamic structure of the oceans is to regress back billions of years.

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5 videos3 readings5 quizzes1 discussion prompt

Humans need to live for something greater than themselves if they are ever to achieve happiness and fulfillment. One way to achieve this goal is to teach children the full nature of our universe. Not just our technologies and our sciences and our arts and entertainments, but the story of the universe itself and what is taking place all around and through them.

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6 videos7 readings5 quizzes1 discussion prompt

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4.5 (10 ratings)
John Grim
Yale University
13 Courses41,759 learners
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Yale University
13 Courses41,759 learners

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