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Jay's WorldWide Topics I

A Random Assortment of Incredible Knowledge

Format: Hybrid
Length: Not stated
Modules: 15
Lessons: 68

About this course

These are a planned series of classes that are meant to do nothing more than stimulate your mind with interesting topics and more completely random knowledge. We try to have fun here.

Syllabus

What you will cover

1
Section A: Mental Health
11 lessons · 1 hr 6 min
The stigma, the masks, the physiology, and the conversations most people never have.
- The Stigma around Men's Mental Health6 min
- The Mask We Wear6 min
- Toxic and Healthy Masculinity6 min
- The Mind and Body Connection6 min
- The Mask We Wear, Part II: Taking It Off6 min
- Suicide Awareness and the Men in Your Life7 min
- Stress, Anxiety and Depression: Know the Difference6 min

Coping Mechanisms, Good and Bad6 min

Self Care for Men and Women5 min

Processing Grief and Loss6 min

Building Emotional Resilience6 min

Section B: Social Anxiety

10 lessons · 1 hr

What it actually is, the research that undercuts it, and the practical skills that reduce it.

Social Anxiety 101: What It Actually Is6 min
The Ultimate Fear: Judgement6 min
The Great Art of Active Listening6 min
The Small Talk Survival Guide6 min
That One Small Step7 min
Making the First Move6 min
The Comparison Trap6 min
The Secret Power of Eye Contact5 min
Body Language and Confidence6 min
Building Conversational Confidence6 min

Section BII: Internal Process

8 lessons · 44 min

Confidence taken apart into the things it is actually made of.

Why We Aim So Hard at Confidence5 min
Body Language That Builds Confidence5 min
Confidence in Decision Making6 min
Case Studies in Setback Recovery6 min
Handling Criticism Gracefully6 min
Building an I Can Handle This Mindset5 min
Preparation as a Confidence Tool5 min
Letting Go of the Need for Approval6 min

Section C: Random Deep Dive I, Urban Legends

4 lessons · 24 min

Where these stories come from, why they survive being disproved, and one with a known birthday.

Alternative Theories to Urban Legends6 min
The Legend of Slender Man6 min
Bloody Mary6 min
Local Legends and the Ohio Butcher6 min

Section D: Dream Psychoanalysis

5 lessons · 29 min

What a dream physically is, what Freud and Jung claimed, and what the evidence actually supports.

What Dreaming Actually Is6 min
Freud, Jung and the Age of Interpretation6 min
What the Evidence Actually Says6 min
Nightmares, Recurring Dreams and Lucid Dreaming6 min
Interpreting Your Own Dreams Sensibly5 min

Section DII: Deja Vu and Sleep Paralysis

4 lessons · 24 min

Two of the strangest things a healthy brain does, and the folklore they produced worldwide.

What Deja Vu Actually Is6 min
Sleep Paralysis7 min
Hypnagogia and the Edge of Sleep5 min
False Memory and the Unreliable Narrator6 min

Section E: Mid-Term Project

2 lessons · 10 min

The mid-term. Choose something strange and research it honestly.

Introduction to the Strange Project5 min
Class Topic Reveal and How to Research Yours5 min

Section F: A Book Study

4 lessons · 22 min

Read a book of your choosing, properly, and learn the method that works on any of them.

Why a Book Study, and How This One Works5 min
How to Read Properly6 min
Structure, Argument and What an Author Is Doing6 min
Keeping What You Read5 min

Section G: Earth's Timeline

4 lessons · 24 min

Four and a half billion years, made graspable, including the catastrophe that let us breathe.

Deep Time and Why Nobody Can Imagine It6 min
From Rock to Life6 min
The Five Great Extinctions6 min
The Last Ten Thousand Years6 min

Section H: Moore's Law and Transistors

3 lessons · 18 min

The one component underneath all of it, and the observation that shaped sixty years of industry.

What a Transistor Actually Does6 min
Moore's Law6 min
Where It Ends, and What Comes After6 min

Section I: History I, The Most Important but Forgotten Figures

3 lessons · 17 min

Why history forgets people, and four it should not have.

Why History Forgets People5 min
Four People You Should Have Heard Of7 min
The People Who Are Not in the Story at All5 min

Section III: History II, 1816, The Year without a Summer

3 lessons · 17 min

A volcano in Indonesia, a famine across the northern hemisphere, and Frankenstein.

The Volcano: Tambora, 18156 min
The Year Without a Summer6 min
What 1816 Produced5 min

Section IIII: History III, Cities Erased by Natural Disasters

3 lessons · 17 min

Pompeii, Port Royal, Lisbon, and what decides whether a city comes back.

Pompeii and Herculaneum6 min
Port Royal and Lisbon6 min
The Cities That Came Back, and the Ones That Did Not5 min

Section IIV: History IV, The Great Emu War

2 lessons · 12 min

Australia deployed machine guns against birds and lost, and it is funnier and sadder than it sounds.

The Great Emu War of 19326 min
Australia's Other Introduced Disasters6 min

Section J: Final Exams

2 lessons · 11 min

The whole course, with an introduction, extra credit and a study guide first.

About the Final Exams4 min
Final Study Guide7 min

Lesson material opens in the Active Lesson Viewer once you are enrolled. Your place and your progress are kept between visits.

Jay's WorldWide Topics I

What you will cover

Section A: Mental Health

Section B: Social Anxiety

Section BII: Internal Process

Section C: Random Deep Dive I, Urban Legends

Section D: Dream Psychoanalysis

Section DII: Deja Vu and Sleep Paralysis

Section E: Mid-Term Project

Section F: A Book Study

Section G: Earth's Timeline

Section H: Moore's Law and Transistors

Section I: History I, The Most Important but Forgotten Figures

Section III: History II, 1816, The Year without a Summer

Section IIII: History III, Cities Erased by Natural Disasters

Section IIV: History IV, The Great Emu War

Section J: Final Exams