Free access to a selection of introductory courses. A project of Yale University to share full video and course materials from its undergraduate courses. It launched in December 2007 with seven courses from various departments and now includes 25.

ENGL 291 - The American Novel Since 1945, Spring 2008
ENGL 300 - Introduction to Theory of Literature, Spring 2009
ENGL 310 - Modern Poetry, Spring 2007
ITAL 310 - Dante in Translation, Fall 2008
HIST 251 - Early Modern England, Fall 2009
MUSI 112 - Listening to Music, Fall 2008
PHIL 176 - Death, Spring 2007
PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2007
PSYC 123 - The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food, Fall 2008
SPAN 300 - Cervantes' Don Quixote, Fall 2009

"Faulkner se traduce de maravilla y con enorme facilidad, por sí solo, si se sabe cómo", escribió en una nota a su traducción. "Basta con ponerse a su servicio, como uno haría con un enemigo más poderoso que él, a cuyas filas se pasa, como buen traidor, sin renunciar, jamás, a sus propias armas, a su bagaje".

Algunos funerales son difíciles de imaginar. En los comentarios: [phetiddingo wrote: Thay played this at the last funeral i went to, my grandads, i reckon everyone forgot why they where there, the coffin vibrated so much we thought he'd come back.]

MUSI 112 - Listening to Music, Fall 2008<br />
ENGL 300 - Introduction to Theory of Literature, Spring 2009<br />
ENGL 310 - Modern Poetry, Spring 2007 <br />
PHIL 176 - Death, Spring 2007<br />
ITAL 310 - Dante in Translation, Fall 2008

Qué forma de acabar el año... /  I´ve been using delicious since November  2005 :( <br />
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See also Matt Oggle on the importance of self archival and memory VS real time: «We’ve all been so distracted by The Now that we’ve hardly noticed the beautiful comet tails of personal history trailing in our wake.» [http://mattogle.com/archivefever/, Archive Fever. A love letter to the post real-time web] <br />
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Or this other quote: Embedded memories and conspiring brain regions, scientists now believe, are the true source of ad-hoc creativity: http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_improvisational_brain/

Art critic's diary of living with brain tumour that will kill him sooner or later—and, in the meantime, is taking away his language function

My experience of the world is not made less by lack of language but is essentially unchanged. This is curious. My true exit may be accompanied by no words at all, all gone. The final thing. The illiterate. The dumb. Speech? Quiet but still something? Noises? Nothing? My body. My tree. After that it becomes simply the world.

In Doctor and Patient, Dr. Pauline W. Chen, a liver transplant and cancer surgeon, shares her experiences and insights into the health care system, to begin to bridge the growing rift between doctors and patients. The column appears on Thursdays at nytimes.com/health.

Dr. Chen's book, "Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality" (Knopf, 2007; Vintage, 2008), charts her personal quest to cope with death and dying in a medical system that is often poorly equipped to deal with end-of-life issues. Dr. Chen graduated from Harvard University and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National Cancer Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was most recently a faculty member in the Department of Surgery.

Anne Carson's tribute to her late brother Michael. "Nox” shifts between the analytic and the lyrical. Even the lexicography turns out to be surprisingly complex and moving (dictionaries hardly being tearjerkers, as a rule). The entries read like litanies—words you might utter as a stay against panic or darkness—and when you look closely you see that Carson has messed with the Latin examples, introducing the word “night,” creating atmospheric little prose poems of the translated phrases. Here’s what we get under the word aequora (aequor, aequoris, neuter noun):

[AEQUUS] a smooth or level surface, expanse, surface; a level stretch of ground, plain; inmensumne noctis aequor confecimus? have we made it across the vast plain of night? the surface of the sea especially as considered as calm and flat, a part of the sea, a sea; per aperta volans aequora soaring over the open sea; the waters of a river, lake, sea; tibi rident aequora ponti the waters of the sea laugh up at you.

Briony Campbell's father died of cancer last year. As a way to learn more about each other and to say goodbye, they decided to make a film together of his last few months

Once an industrious oasis, Hebden Bridge became a hippie paradise in the 1960s and latterly a middle-class hotspot. So how did it turn into the suicide capital of Yorkshire? The film-maker Jez Lewis returned to his home town – where 15 of his childhood friends have killed themselves in the past 20 years – to find out what went wrong in this troubled bohemian idyll

Audrey Niffenegger set her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, in Highgate Cemetery and loved it so much she became an official guide

Artist who incorporates taxidermy in her work

Obituaries of interesting people

Isabella Blow, discoverer of Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, wearer of the extravagant, darling of the beau monde, loved fashion more than life. But by the end, even fashion couldn’t save her.
By Amy Larocca. Published Jul 16, 2007.

Claire Seeber keeps her grandmother's ashes in the car, Stanley has his wife in the wardrobe, Karen's dad is in a vase in her bedroom. And Rebecca's grandma is starting to leak from a small cardboard box she carries with her at all times

I never got over it. I just got used to it.

The outsiders
In the 1970s and 80s, Peter Hujar photographed New York and its underground elite - and was there when Aids began to take its toll. Musician Antony Hegarty pays tribute to an unsung master

Dr. Chen, a surgeon specializing in liver transplants, is her own patient in “Final Exam,” a series of thoughtful, moving essays on the troubled relationship between modern medical practice and the emotional events surrounding death.

Each chapter begins with a graph assessing the method in question in terms of: the pain it causes, effort of preparation required, the appearance of the body, the disturbance it may cause for others and its deadliness. Each of these matters is also rated by skulls, with 5 skulls indicating the highest rating.

Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?

Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

American writer Susan Sontag was terrified of death. She beat cancer in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, but third time around she wasn't so lucky. In a tender account of her final illness, her son David Rieff recalls how he colluded with his mother's f

A DUTCH primary school teacher dying of cancer is overseeing one last class project: her pupils are making her coffin.

Edinburgh-based photographer Joanna Kane’s latest book, The Somnambulists, is a series of rather unconventional portraits. While at first glance the images appear to be intimate studies of various sleeping figures they are, in fact, recent photographs o

I always emerged from the operating rooms feeling more alive than when I had entered. I became energized by the act of operating, the hope of transplantation. Until my 83rd procurement... Pauline W. Chen, “Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortal