Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity–Take a Free & Timely Course Online

in Health, Online Courses, Psychology | May 8th, 2020

The Great Courses has made avail­able a free and rather time­ly course–Build­ing Your Resilience: Find­ing Mean­ing in Adver­si­ty. Divid­ed into 24 lec­tures and taught by Mol­ly Birk­holm, the course gets intro­duced with the fol­low­ing text:

Recent research shows that we grow into our best and most joy­ful selves not when we avoid our prob­lems but when we embrace them, con­fi­dent that we are resilient enough to work through them to an appro­pri­ate res­o­lu­tion. Our prob­lems are an impor­tant part of our path.

Resilience is our abil­i­ty to phys­i­cal­ly, emo­tion­al­ly, and men­tal­ly bounce back from adverse cir­cum­stances. With­out it, we would be down for the count every time we ran into a prob­lem. Stuck in traf­fic and late for a meet­ing? It’s your resilience that allows you to make the nec­es­sary phone calls and keep mov­ing for­ward, con­fi­dent that you can han­dle this stress­ful sit­u­a­tion as it evolves. With­out it, you’d make a U‑turn and give up. Recov­er­ing from the flu or recent surgery? It’s your resilience that helps you take care of your­self appro­pri­ate­ly and look for­ward to a bet­ter future. Our capac­i­ty to thrive in life depends direct­ly on our resilience.

Shar­ing her own fas­ci­nat­ing jour­ney, as well as the lat­est research by neu­rol­o­gists and psy­chol­o­gists, trau­ma spe­cial­ist Mol­ly Birk­holm shows us how to gauge our cur­rent lev­el of resilience and improve from there. In Build­ing Your Resilience: Find­ing Mean­ing in Adver­si­ty, you’ll learn how all of our challenges—from every­day stress­es to life-alter­ing traumas—can bring wis­dom and growth. In 17 fas­ci­nat­ing class­es and 7 “hands-on” prac­tice ses­sions, you’ll learn about and expe­ri­ence the process of build­ing the inner calm and clar­i­ty of mind that cre­ate greater resilience. With Ms. Birkholm’s warm and opti­mistic demeanor, you’ll feel her encour­age­ment every step of the way as you move toward build­ing your best and most ful­fill­ing life.

Watch all 24 lec­tures above, or over on YouTube. Build­ing Your Resilience: Find­ing Mean­ing in Adver­si­ty will be added to our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

Find more cours­es in The Great Courses cat­a­logue here.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

How Bud­dhism & Neu­ro­science Can Help You Change How Your Mind Works: A New Course by Best­selling Author Robert Wright

Pos­i­tive Psy­chol­o­gy: A Free Course from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty 

What Are the Keys to Hap­pi­ness?: Take “The Sci­ence of Well-Being,” a Free Online Ver­sion of Yale’s Most Pop­u­lar Course

How to Find Emo­tion­al Strength & Resilience Dur­ing COVID-19: Advice from Eliz­a­beth Gilbert, Jack Korn­field, Susan David & Oth­er Experts

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Nikon Offers Free Online Photography Courses in April

in Online Courses, Photography | April 12th, 2020

A quick heads up. Through the end of April, Nikon has made its cur­ricu­lum of online pho­tog­ra­phy cours­es free. Nor­mal­ly priced at $15-$50 per course, this 10-course offer­ing cov­ers Fun­da­men­tals of Pho­tog­ra­phy, Dynam­ic Land­scape Pho­tog­ra­phy, Macro Pho­tog­ra­phy, Pho­tograph­ing Chil­dren and Pets, and more. Sign up for the cours­es here.

If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!

via The Verge

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Annie Lei­bovitz Teach­es Pho­tog­ra­phy in Her First Online Course

Take a Free Course on Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy from Stan­ford Prof Marc Lev­oy

Learn Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy with Har­vard University’s Free Course

1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties

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Coursera Makes Courses & Certificates Free During Coronavirus Quarantine: Take Courses in Psychology, Music, Wellness, Professional Development & More Online

in Online Courses | April 10th, 2020

Over the past decade or two, devel­op­ments in the tech­nol­o­gy of the World Wide Web have made learn­ing at home pos­si­ble in a way it was­n’t before. Over the past month or two, learn­ing at home has gone from option to neces­si­ty, pre­vent­ed as many of us are from going out to a class­room by the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. If you’ve tak­en cours­es on the inter­net before — and espe­cial­ly if you’ve picked them from our selec­tion of 1,500 you can take for free — you’ve no doubt heard of Cours­era, one of the major online learn­ing plat­forms. Now through May 31st, a peri­od dur­ing which the num­ber of poten­tial stu­dents will sure­ly remain high, Cours­era has made more of its class­es free for the tak­ing.

“To help our com­mu­ni­ty dur­ing this crit­i­cal time, we’re launch­ing new, free resources, as well as sur­fac­ing inter­est­ing course col­lec­tions, com­mu­ni­ty dis­cus­sions, and expert inter­views,” says the offi­cial Cours­era blog. “While many cours­es on Cours­era are already avail­able for free with­out a cer­tifi­cate, this pro­mo­tion enables you to not only access lec­tures and quizzes, but also to earn a free cer­tifi­cate for cours­es that offer them.” The blog high­lights these col­lec­tions of cours­es, describ­ing them as fol­lows:

The post also includes the fol­low­ing instruc­tions for how to redeem a free course:

  1. First, click the link to vis­it a pro­mo­tion page.
  2. From the pro­mo­tion page, click to vis­it a spe­cif­ic course and wait for the page to ful­ly load. Once loaded, you will see a pro­mo­tion ban­ner at the top of the page. If you don’t see the ban­ner, please refresh the page.
  3. Next, click the “Enroll for free” but­ton.
  4. Select “Pur­chase Course.” Note that with the pro­mo­tion applied, there will be a mes­sage in paren­the­ses that says “Your pro­mo­tion will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be applied at check­out.”
  5. At check­out, your pur­chase total will read “$0.”
  6. Com­plete check out and start learn­ing!

Among Cours­er­a’s cur­rent free offer­ings you’ll find a host of cours­es includ­ing “Get­ting Start­ed with Music The­o­ry” from Michi­gan State Uni­ver­si­ty, “Social Psy­chol­o­gy” from Wes­leyan Uni­ver­si­ty, and “Cloud Com­put­ing Basics” from Learn­Quest. You’re as like­ly to come across sub­ject areas into which you’ve long been mean­ing to get deep­er as prac­ti­cal edu­ca­tion per­ti­nent to the times we now live in. Take “Sit Less, Get Active” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh, or “Sci­ence Mat­ters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19” from Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don, a virus-relat­ed course of the kind we’ve pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Diego’s “Con­vert­ing Chal­lenges into Oppor­tu­ni­ties” is also not with­out its rel­e­vance, to the future as well as the present. After all, the coro­n­avirus will hard­ly be the last chal­lenge in which we’ll need to find our own oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

Watch “Coro­n­avirus Out­break: What You Need to Know,” and the 24-Lec­ture Course “An Intro­duc­tion to Infec­tious Dis­eases,” Both Free from The Great Cours­es

Free Cours­es on the Coro­n­avirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerg­ing Pan­dem­ic

Dyson Cre­ates 44 Free Engi­neer­ing & Sci­ence Chal­lenges for Kids Quar­an­tined Dur­ing COVID-19

Use Your Time in Iso­la­tion to Learn Every­thing You’ve Always Want­ed To: Free Online Cours­es, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Col­or­ing Books & More

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les and the video series The City in Cin­e­ma. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall, on Face­book, or on Insta­gram.

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How to Teach and Learn Philosophy During the Pandemic: A Collection of 450+ Philosophy Videos Free Online

in Online Courses, Philosophy | March 26th, 2020

The term phi­los­o­phy, as every intro­duc­to­ry course first explains, means the love of wis­dom. And as the old­est intel­lec­tu­al dis­ci­pline, phi­los­o­phy has proven that the love of wis­dom can with­stand the worst human his­to­ry can throw at it. Civ­i­liza­tions may rise and fall, but soon­er or lat­er we always find ways to get back to phi­los­o­phiz­ing. The cur­rent coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, the most fright­en­ing glob­al event most of us have seen in our life­times, does­n’t quite look like a civ­i­liza­tion-ender, though it has forced many of us to change the way we live and learn. In short, we’re doing much more of it online, and a new col­lec­tion of edu­ca­tion­al videos free online is keep­ing phi­los­o­phy in the mix.

“In order to aid phi­los­o­phy pro­fes­sors dur­ing the pan­dem­ic as they tran­si­tion from in-per­son to online teach­ing, Liz Jack­son (ANU) and Tyron Gold­schmidt (Rochester) cre­at­ed a spread­sheet of vide­o­record­ed phi­los­o­phy class­es and lec­tures,” writes Dai­ly Nous’ Justin Wein­berg. At the time of Wein­berg’s post on Mon­day, the spread­sheet, avail­able as an open Google doc­u­ment, con­tained more than 200 videos, a num­ber that has since more than dou­bled to 457 and count­ing.

You’ll find an abun­dance of intro­duc­to­ry cours­es to the entire sub­ject of phi­los­o­phy as well as to sub­fields like log­ic and ethics, and also spe­cial­ized lec­ture series on every­thing from Hume and Niet­zsche to Sto­icism and meta­physics to death and the prob­lem of evil.

Wein­berg adds that “any­one can add their own videos or ones that they know about,” so if you’re aware of any video phi­los­o­phy cours­es that haven’t appeared on the spread­sheet yet, you can con­tribute to this ongo­ing effort in at-home phi­los­o­phy by insert­ing them your­self. Even as it is, Jack­son and Gold­sh­midt’s course col­lec­tion offers more than enough to give your­self a rich philo­soph­i­cal edu­ca­tion in this time of iso­la­tion — or, if you’re a phi­los­o­phy pro­fes­sor your­self, a way to enrich any remote teach­ing you have to do right now. Putting as it does so close at hand lec­tures by such fig­ures pre­vi­ous­ly fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture as Nigel War­bur­ton, Michael Sandel, Peter Adam­son, and the inim­itable Rick Rod­er­ick, it reminds us that the love of wis­dom is best expressed in a vari­ety of voic­es.

In addi­tion to the spread­sheet, can find many more phi­los­o­phy videos in our col­lec­tion, Free Online Phi­los­o­phy Cours­es.

via Dai­ly Nous

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Learn Phi­los­o­phy with a Wealth of Free Cours­es, Pod­casts and YouTube Videos

A His­to­ry of Phi­los­o­phy in 81 Video Lec­tures: From Ancient Greece to Mod­ern Times

350 Ani­mat­ed Videos That Will Teach You Phi­los­o­phy, from Ancient to Post-Mod­ern

Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Nov­el the Coro­n­avirus Has Made a Best­seller Again

Use Your Time in Iso­la­tion to Learn Every­thing You’ve Always Want­ed To: Free Online Cours­es, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Col­or­ing Books & More

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les and the video series The City in Cin­e­ma. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.

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Use Your Time in Isolation to Learn Everything You’ve Always Wanted To: Free Online Courses, Audio Books, eBooks, Movies, Coloring Books & More

in Education, Online Courses | March 16th, 2020

“I have nev­er let my school­ing inter­fere with my edu­ca­tion.” Mark Twain may or may not have actu­al­ly said that, but either way the sen­ti­ment res­onates — and with a new strength now, since schools have closed all over the world in an attempt to halt the spread of the pan­dem­ic coro­n­avirus. For many, this peri­od of iso­la­tion (self-imposed or oth­er­wise) rep­re­sents an oppor­tu­ni­ty to redis­cov­er the val­ue of edu­ca­tion: not the kind direct­ed by an insti­tu­tion, but the much more valu­able kind that runs on one’s own steam. If you count among that select group of self-edu­ca­tors (or edu­ca­tors of chil­dren whom you can no longer send to school), we here at Open Cul­ture have spent near­ly the past decade and a half amass­ing just the resources you need.

At our selec­tion of more than 1,500 free online cours­es, you can take deep dives into sub­jects from archae­ol­o­gy and archi­tec­ture to law and lit­er­a­ture to physics and psy­chol­o­gy. (We’ve even got cours­es specif­i­cal­ly designed to help you under­stand the coro­n­avirus itself.) If you’ve been mean­ing to catch up on the work of the afore­men­tioned Twain — or that of Dos­to­evsky, Wittgen­stein, Kaf­ka, and Proust, among oth­ers — he appears in our roundup of more than 800 free eBooks.

Should you pre­fer read­ing through ear­phones while exer­cis­ing or clean­ing — espe­cial­ly impor­tant activ­i­ties these days — we can also offer you more than a thou­sand free audio­books, whether you pre­fer Isaac Asi­mov or Jane Austen, Adri­enne Rich or Charles Bukows­ki. (You can also get audio­books from Audi­ble if you sign up for a free 30-day tri­al there.)

While quar­an­tine puts a tem­po­rary stop to many of our usu­al activ­i­ties, it should­n’t get in the way of movie night. Our col­lec­tion of 1,1500 free movies will cov­er all your movie nights through the time of the coro­n­avirus and then some, includ­ing as it does clas­sic films noirs, thriller and hor­ror pic­tures (includ­ing some by no less a sus­pense mas­ter than Alfred Hitch­cock), doc­u­men­taries, and even the fruits of the film indus­tries of coun­tries like Rus­sia and South Korea. And though we can’t get enough cin­e­ma here at Open Cul­ture, it’s hard­ly the only visu­al art form we fea­ture: you might spend some time, for instance, with this col­lec­tion of two mil­lion images from 30 world-class muse­ums. This range of art also appears in free muse­um-pro­duced col­or­ing books geared to all ages.

If you’d like to use your time of “social dis­tance” to devel­op skills oth­er than col­or­ing, we can point you toward resources for learn­ing to cook, to draw (like an archi­tect, like a Japan­ese man­ga­ka, like Lyn­da Bar­ry), to play the gui­tar, and to prac­tice yoga. Bear in mind also the online-edu­ca­tion offer­ings from Mas­ter­class we’ve fea­tured here on Open Cul­ture, from â€śMar­garet Atwood Teach­es Cre­ative Writ­ing” to “David Sedaris Teach­es Sto­ry­telling and Humor” to “Wern­er Her­zog Teach­es Film­mak­ing.” (The edu­ca­tion­al offer­ings pro­vid­ed by The Great Cours­es also pro­vide anoth­er good option.) Those aren’t free, but every­thing else in this post is, includ­ing our col­lec­tion of online lan­guage-learn­ing resources. Hav­ing spread through world trav­el, the coro­n­avirus will keep many wary of going abroad in the fore­see­able future. But when the pan­dem­ic ends, you’ll want to be pre­pared to enjoy for­eign lands again. Italy, a coun­try espe­cial­ly hard-hit by the virus, will sure­ly wel­come all the vis­i­tors it can get. Until then, why not get a grasp on its lan­guage — and its cui­sine — with a course like MIT’s “Learn Ital­ian with Your Mouth Full”?

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Free Cours­es on the Coro­n­avirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerg­ing Pan­dem­ic

Cours­era Pro­vid­ing Free Access to Its Course Cat­a­log to Uni­ver­si­ties Impact­ed by COVID-19

Why You Should Read The Plague, the Albert Camus Nov­el the Coro­n­avirus Has Made a Best­seller Again

Quar­an­tined Ital­ians Send a Mes­sage to Them­selves 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les and the video series The City in Cin­e­ma. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.

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Free Courses on the Coronavirus: What You Need to Know About the Emerging Pandemic

in Health, Online Courses | February 24th, 2020

The coro­n­avirus has spread out of Chi­na, into South Korea, Japan and now Italy. We’re set­tling into the real­i­ty that we’re like­ly fac­ing a pan­dem­ic. It’s time to edu­cate ourselves–to take some free cours­es on COVID-19.

In response to the out­break, Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don has put togeth­er a free course (offered through Cours­era) called “Sci­ence Mat­ters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19.” The course will teach you the “sci­ence under­pin­ning the nov­el Coro­n­avirus out­break,” so that you can under­stand “how the spread of the epi­dem­ic is mod­eled, how trans­mis­si­bil­i­ty of infec­tions is esti­mat­ed, what the chal­lenges are in esti­mat­ing the case fatal­i­ty ratio, and also … the impor­tance of com­mu­ni­ty involve­ment in respond­ing to the epi­dem­ic.” You can get start­ed with this course right now.

Alter­na­tive­ly you can sign up for COVID-19: Tack­ling the Nov­el Coro­n­avirus. Cre­at­ed by Future­Learn and The Lon­don School of Hygiene and Trop­i­cal Med­i­cine, this course looks at “how COVID-19 emerged, was iden­ti­fied and spreads, the pub­lic health mea­sures for the virus world­wide, and what is need­ed to address COVID-19 and pre­vent it [from] spread­ing.” Although the course is now open for enroll­ment, it won’t offi­cial­ly start until March 22.

Both cours­es will be added to our col­lec­tion, 1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties.

Note: The Uni­ver­si­ty of Hong Kong also offer a course on Epi­demics.

If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Inter­ac­tive Web Site Tracks the Glob­al Spread of the Coro­n­avirus: Cre­at­ed and Sup­port­ed by Johns Hop­kins

 

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Free Online Writing & Journalism Courses

in Online Courses, Writing | January 8th, 2020

Image by Book Mama, via Flickr Com­mons

See our meta col­lec­tion–1,700 Free Online Cours­es from Top Uni­ver­si­ties–for a com­plete list of online cours­es, cov­er­ing near­ly every sub­ject.

If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. Or fol­low our posts on Threads, Face­book, BlueSky or Mastodon.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication in a New Online Course

in Online Courses, Science | December 20th, 2019

One does­n’t nor­mal­ly get into astro­physics for the fame. But some­times one gets famous any­way, as has astro­physi­cist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Direc­tor of the Hay­den Plan­e­tar­i­um at the Rose Cen­ter for Earth and Space. But that title does­n’t even hint at the scope of his pub­lic-fac­ing ven­tures, from the columns he’s writ­ten in mag­a­zines like Nat­ur­al His­to­ry and Star­Date to his host­ing of tele­vi­sion shows like NOVA and the sequel to Carl Sagan’s Cos­mos to his pod­cast StarTalk and his high-pro­file social media pres­ence. Has any oth­er fig­ure in the annals of sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tion been as pro­lif­ic, as out­spo­ken, and as will­ing to talk to any­one and do any­thing?

Here on Open Cul­ture, we’ve fea­tured Tyson rec­om­mend­ing books, giv­ing a brief his­to­ry of every­thing, deliv­er­ing “the great­est sci­ence ser­mon ever,” chat­ting about NASA’s fly­by of Plu­to with Stephen Col­bert, “per­form­ing” in a Sym­pho­ny of Sci­ence video, invent­ing a physics-based wrestling move in high school, look­ing hip in grad school, defend­ing sci­ence in 272 words, break­ing down the genius of Isaac New­ton, talk­ing non-New­ton­ian solids with a nine-year-old, dis­cussing the his­to­ry of video games, cre­at­ing a video game with Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Mar­tin, select­ing the most astound­ing fact about the uni­verse, explain­ing the impor­tance of arts edu­ca­tion along­side David Byrne, pon­der­ing whether the uni­verse has a pur­pose, debat­ing whether or not we live in a sim­u­la­tion, remem­ber­ing when first he met Carl Sagan, inter­view­ing Stephen Hawk­ing just days before the lat­ter’s death, and of course, moon­walk­ing.

Now comes Tyson’s lat­est media ven­ture: a course from Mas­ter­class, the online edu­ca­tion com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in bring­ing big names from var­i­ous fields in front of the cam­era and get­ting them to tell us what they know. (Oth­er teach­ers include Mal­colm Glad­well, Steve Mar­tin, and Wern­er Her­zog.) “Neil DeGrasse Tyson Teach­es Sci­en­tif­ic Think­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion,” whose trail­er you can watch above, gets into sub­jects like the sci­en­tif­ic method, the nature of skep­ti­cism, cog­ni­tive and cul­tur­al bias, com­mu­ni­ca­tion tac­tics, and the inspi­ra­tion of curios­i­ty. “There’s, like, a gazil­lion hours of me on the inter­net,” admits Tyson, and though none of those may cost $90 USD (or $180 for an all-access pass to all of Mas­ter­class’ offer­ings), in none of them has he tak­en on quite the goal he does in his Mas­ter­class: to teach how to “not only find objec­tive truth, but then com­mu­ni­cate to oth­ers how to get there. It’s not good enough to be right. You also have to be effec­tive.” You can sign up Tyson’s course here.

If you sign up for a Mas­ter­Class course by click­ing on the affil­i­ate links in this post, Open Cul­ture will receive a small fee that helps sup­port our oper­a­tion.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Mas­ter­class Is Run­ning a “Buy One, Give One Free” Deal

Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intel­li­gent Per­son Should Read

Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents a Brief His­to­ry of Every­thing in an 8.5 Minute Ani­ma­tion

An Ani­mat­ed Neil deGrasse Tyson Gives an Elo­quent Defense of Sci­ence in 272 Words, the Same Length as The Get­tys­burg Address

Neil deGrasse Tyson Says This Short Film on Sci­ence in Amer­i­ca Con­tains Per­haps the Most Impor­tant Words He’s Ever Spo­ken

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. His projects include the book The State­less City: a Walk through 21st-Cen­tu­ry Los Ange­les and the video series The City in Cin­e­ma. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.

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