Series: Generalist - Volume 2

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• Generalist - Volume 2

  This is a series of iMinds lessons.

• Seven Wonders of the World

  Learn about the Seven Wonders of the World with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  2,500 years ago, people began to talk about the wondrous structures they had seen in their travels around the Mediterranean. In 222 B.C., Philo of Byzantium wrote an essay called “On the Seven Wonders”. The historian Herodotus had made his list a few hundred years before. But it was Antipater of Sidon, a Greek poet, who brought the Seven Wonders to life in 120 B.C. Antipater lived during the Hellenistic age, when the culture of the ancient Greeks had spread throughout the Mediterranean. Seven was a mystical number to people of this era. And Antipater’s Seven Wonders soon became tourist shrines, much like the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are today.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• The Internet

  Learn about the invention of The Internet with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The story of the Internet begins in the early 1960s, when Russia launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite. Afraid of the technological potential of the Russians, the United States Department of Defense formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), in order to develop US science and technology, and in particular its application in the military.

  In order to share information between different US military and research institutions, a network was established between different computers. A government agency called RAND developed the idea of a decentralized network - so if one location was attacked, the others would still be able to connect to each other.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Boston Tea Party

  Learn about the Boston Tea Party with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It was another cold night in Boston, Massachusetts on the 16th of December 1773. But this was no ordinary night. This night would ignite the flames of injustice within many an American colonist. And it would eventually lead to the American Revolution.

  That night, three British ships - the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver - were moored in the Boston harbor. Their holds were filled with British tea that the American colonists had refused to accept. However, Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts, in turn, refused to issue the permits which would allow the ships to leave the harbor and return to Great Britain.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please not this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Hollywood Blacklist

  Learn about the Hollywood Blacklist with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It was November 25th, 1947.

  There was a joint release of a statement saying the Hollywood studios would not employ Communists. But it did not end there. They also agreed that those people identified as the Hollywood Ten should be fired or suspended without pay until they had publicly sworn that they were not communists, and were cleared of Congressional contempt charges.
  This was the official beginning of the Hollywood blacklist. But who were the Hollywood Ten? How had Tinsel town become a battleground for the Cold War?

  The Hollywood Ten were screenwriters, film directors and producers. These ten men had been subpoenaed to appear before the Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Culture Jamming

  Learn about Culture Jamming with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  It is increasingly in the media, but what exactly is culture jamming and how does it work?

  Culture jamming is a form of protest in which advertisements and other media messages are re-arranged or parodied in humorous or disturbing ways. The term covers a range of practices, including sabotaging billboards, spoofing well-known ads, and hoaxing the mainstream media.
  The purpose of culture jamming is to expose the reality behind corporate spin and to reclaim the media and public spaces from the influence of powerful corporations.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Parkour

  Learn about the sport of Parkour with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  If there was only one way to describe parkour, it would be to call it a sport. Parkour involves the task of overcoming obstacles, both physical and mental. But not everybody is in agreement with what parkour is truly about. What we do know is that parkour originated in France where it is sometimes referred to as “l’art du déplacement” meaning “the art of displacement”. The basic principle of parkour is to use only the human body to move from point A to point B in the most efficient, direct and fluid way possible.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Aurora Borealis

  Learn about the science of the Aurora Borealis with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The aurora borealis, often referred to as the northern lights, is a natural light-show that appears in the sky around the north magnetic pole. Auroras can sometimes be seen in other places of the world, but not as clearly. In the southern hemisphere, the phenomenon is called “aurora australis”.

  The aurora borealis occurs because of an interaction between solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. When the sun’s gases explode, some of the particles are blown away in a phenomenon known as solar wind. The particles in the solar wind travel at speeds of over 600,000 miles per hour and take two to three days to reach the Earth.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Behavioral Economics

  Learn about Behavioral Economics with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  According to most economics textbooks, human beings are super-rational creatures who know what is in their own best interests and always act accordingly. When making a decision to buy something, the rational consumer will evaluate all the possible alternatives before making a purchase, having already conducted research on the state of the market. They would not buy something on the spur of the moment, or on the recommendation of a friend. Nor would a rational consumer be unduly influenced by advertising or a brand name in making purchasing decisions. This explanation of human behavior is known as the rational agent model. Sound realistic?

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Seven Archangels

  Learn about the Seven Archangels with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  The history of Angels rests predominantly in the Middle East. Other cultures had gods, goddesses or faeries, but in the Middle East they worshiped angels as their gods. Once the idea of a single all powerful God evolved, however, it was necessary to create another space for angels. And so, they became known as mediators between the newly created all powerful God and his servants –humankind- on Earth. The concept of angels was particularly native to Jewish and Babylonian culture.

  The word angel comes from the Greek word for “messenger”.
  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Loch Ness Monster

  Learn about the Loch Ness Monster with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Throughout the world, there are hundreds of lakes in which monsters are said to live. None of these lake monsters is more famous than the Loch Ness Monster, who is said to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland.

  “Loch” is the Scottish word for a lake or a large body of water. And Loch Ness, situated near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, is the largest body of water in Great Britain. It is a freshwater loch, roughly 750 feet deep. It contains more freshwater than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Although Loch Lomond, also in Scotland, is bigger with regards to total area of water, due to Loch Ness’ great depth, it is the biggest in terms of volume.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Bay of Pigs

  Learn about the Bay of Pigs invasion with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  Bay of Pigs refers to the 1961 invasion of Cuba by a force of CIA-backed Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro’s left-wing government. In Cuba the invasion is called the Battle of Girón, one of the beaches in the Bay of Pigs, which is on the south coast of Cuba. The invasion was one of the flashpoints of the Cold War and pushed the world towards the brink of nuclear war.

  Cuba gained independence from Spain in 1898, but in the decades that followed, American business gained control of many industries and landholdings. Cuban governments, such as that of Fulgencio Batista, who effectively ruled from 1933 to 1958, were closely allied to the United States.

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

• Deja Vu

  Learn about the feeling of Déjà Vu with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.

  When Charles Dickens wrote in his 1850 novel David Copperfield about ‘a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before’, he may well have been referring to the experience of déjà vu. When the popstar Madonna took the lead role in the 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan, her character referred to her emerging snippets of memory after a head injury as exactly that. But even if it feels like you have experienced something before, is this always an experience of déjà vu?

  Perfect to listen to while commuting, exercising, shopping or cleaning the house.. iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

  *Please note this is an audio only mp4 lesson. An mp3 containing the same content is attached to the lesson and available for download under the "Additional Materials" section.

Supplementary Files:

• Once you purchase this series you will have access to these files:
• Seven_Wonders_of_the_World.mp3
• The_Internet.mp3
• Boston_Tea_Party.mp3
• Hollywood_Blacklist.mp3
• Culture_Jamming.mp3
• Parkour.mp3
• Aurora_Borealis.mp3
• Behavioral_Economics.mp3
• Seven_Archangels.mp3
• Loch_Ness_Monster.mp3
• Bay_Of_Pigs.mp3
• Deja_Vu.mp3