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- Collection: St. John's College Lecture Transcripts—Santa Fe
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Samson's riddle
Transcript of a lecture given by Robert Sacks.
Satanic math
Transcript of a lecture given by Charles Bell.
On not hating Hegel
Transcript of a lecture given by Cary Stickney.
Clima(c)tic Change: Twenty Million Hands and the Living, Wavering Globe
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Llyd Wells on April 19, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Climatic change demands of us climactic change. We have yet fully to…
What is the Measure of Electricity?
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on February 23, 2024 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Faraday made use of numerous electrical measuring instruments;…
Alternating Current
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Howard Fisher on April 26, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "The technology of alternating current was developed almost entirely…
The Concept of Truth in the Book of Genesis
Transcript of a lecture given by tutor Phil LeCuyer on April 14, 2023 as part of the Dean's Lecture & Concert Series. The Dean's Office has provided this description of the event: "Join tutor Phil LeCuyer for a lecture on the Book of Genesis with a…
Faraday's Galvanometer
Transcript of a lecture given on February 22, 2023 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Today we think of the galvanometer as a device that measures electric…
What would Kepler say to Einstein?
Transcript of a lecture given on November 5, 2021 by William Donahue as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Einstein once wrote that there is little value, other than the…
The Qur'an : an introduction for Johnnies
Transcript of a lecture given on June 16, 2021 by Ken Wolfe as part of the Graduate Institute Summer Lecture Series. Mr. Wolfe provided this description of the event: "In this introduction to the Qur'an, I will explore the context of its composition…
Learning to love Lincoln : Frederick Douglass's journey from grievance to gratitude
Transcript of a lecture given on December 4, 2020 by Diana Schaub as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Having originally been a severe critic of Abraham Lincoln, the radical…
The magnificent pendulums
Transcript of a lecture given on November 18, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "With Galileo, we learn to understand the two natural motions by reducing…
Incommensurability : Meno and the diagonal
Transcript of a lecture given on October 21, 2020 by Cary Stickney as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series. The Dean's Office provided this description of the event: "Can beautiful speeches give rise to beautiful deeds? Please join the SJC…
Maxwell reads Faraday
Transcript of a lecture given on April 24, 2020 by Howard Fisher as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The phenomenology of blackness
Transcript of a lecture given on November 22, 2019 by Michael Sawyer as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
The heptadecagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 8, 2019 by Grant Franks.
The pentagon and the heptagon
Transcript of a lecture given on October 1, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Constructible numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 24, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Trigonometric interpretation of complex numbers
Transcript of a lecture given on September 17, 2019 by Grant Franks.
Meet your new best friend : the square root of negative one
Transcript of a lecture given on September 11, 2019 by Grant Franks as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.