iTunes U
These are audio files covered by copyright. You can download and link to them, but you can't reproduce them. The links will open a new window with links to the files. You'll have to click again and the MP4 will open in iTunes. If you don't have iTunes, you can download it for free.
- Business ethics: academic interview, audio. (When the window opens, choose item 7. Transcript is item 8); about 12 minutes; compare/contrast at the macro level.
- Memory: video lecture. (When the window opens, choose item 12); about 15 minutes; partially categorizing.
- Characteristics of women leaders: video lecture; about 30 minutes.
- Human use of animals: academic interview, audio (choose item 29); about 15 minutes.
- Alternative medicine: anecdote + description, audio (choose item 14); about 6 minutes.
- Arranged marriage/spousal abuse: CBC Metro morning interview, audio (date: 4/17/11); about 16 minutes.
- Capital punishment: lecture; audio (a little hard to hear; date 5/13/09) about 11 minutes.
- Race and capital punishment; 2 lectures with slides; American focus, about 13 minutes.
These are all videos, all lecture format, usually with some slides. Most include subtitles and transcripts. They can be a little fast and challenging, but the transcripts and the focus on a non-specialist audience help. All are covered by Creative Commons license allowing you to link, download, and share as you like.
- Love & Marriage
- Helen Fisher: Understanding romantic love (neuropsychology), about 23 minutes.
- Women leaders
- Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders, about 15 minutes.
- Madeleine Albright on being a woman and a diplomat, about 13 minutes.
- Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women, about 16 minutes.
- Liberal arts vs science
- Liz Coleman's call to reinvent liberal arts education, about 19 minutes.
- Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together, about 15 minutes.
- Patrick Awuah makes the case that a liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders, about 17 minutes.
NPR & other
NPR stories are in the public domain, so you can do with them what you like. They usually come with a transcript and a downloadable mp3 file.
- Animal rights
- Pro-Testing Group Backs Oxford Animal Research Lab
- Livestock Farms Could Be Off Limits To Photos
- For animal rights, PETA has a lot of promotional videos. (copyright: link but don't reproduce)
- Capital punishment
- A large number of relevant stories, mostly from an American point of view.
- Alternative vs western medicine
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