M:Janet! Nice to see you again. Ready to plan you schedule for next semester? W:Yeah, I've already looked at the list of classes. And I hope to take business law and intro to finance this coming semester. M:That sounds good. And it is always best to...
Listen to part of a lecture in a geology class. Most of you are probably familiar with the flow of lava that can result from a volcano eruption. Lava actually being a mixture of magma and convince to be produced underground. And many people think thi...
Listen to a talk in a geology class. I often hear my friends say that the days pass much more quickly than they used to. But geologically speaking just opposite is true. In fact, a complete day which now lasts 24 hours actually used to be much shorte...
Listen to a talk given by a professor of meteorology. First of all, let's look at why temperatures tend to be higher in city than in the rural area. This happens because almost 50% of the urban areas are comprised of hard surfaces like paved street,...
Listen to part of the lecture in a class on earth science. We've been talking about some of the affects that the human beings so act on the earth. One that you may be not aware of is that we've actually begun to change the length of the day. The othe...
Listen to a conversation between two students. W:I think you would have enjoyed my geology class this morning. M:Don't betbeg on it, I've never caredhear much about rocks. W:But you do care about dinosaurs I recall and today we discuss the geological...
Listen to part of the lecture in a health science class. The professor will be discussing a solution to a health problem caused by a certain parasite sometimes invade humans. A parasite is an organism that live in or on another organism called the ho...
As a way of illustrating our discussion of group behavior of animals. We are going to watch which I think is a fascinating video tape about the eland, one of the two major species antelope in Africa. They live in herds about 200 individuals. But firs...
I like to start discuss today lecture by challenging some of the myths about certain animals considered to be predators of human. Take the case of wolf, people fear wolves because the tales of how wolves attack and eat people walking into the woods....
Birds are sometimes referred to as glorified reptiles, and even though modern birds are structurally very different from reptiles.Some show minor evidence of their ancestry, like scales on their feet, or claw on their toes. However, flying reptiles d...
I like to start discuss today lecture by challenging some of the myths about certain animals considered to be predators of human. Take the case of wolf, people fear wolves because the tales of how wolves attack and eat people walking into the woods....
As we've discussed, the human eye has three different types of color receptors that respond three basic colors: red, green, and blue. Or other colors are seem to combinations of these different types of the receptors. Birds, however, have receptors f...
For the next couple of weeks, we will be focusing on how animals communicate with each other.Up to now, we've had a rather narrow view of vocal warnings that animals give each other. Some recent research indicates that this communication is a lot mor...
P:All right, Jenison and Clod have been assigned read part of our discussion today on animal cognition. Are you both ready? W: Well, Clod and I looked into at the tool making ability of wild animals, and we came across an article about how a scientis...
Higher animals like dogs, horses, even human being look like their parents when they are born. There are some minor changes that occur as these animals grow. But the basic form and structure stay the same. Now this is called direct development, which...
