# Teaching ### Spring, 2003 [### Quantitative Reasoning 46, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Core Class) (2005, 2004, 2003) ](/class/quantitative-reasoning-46-visual-display-quantitative-information-core-class-2005-2004-2003) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2003 Also offered 2004 & 2005 ### Spring, 2008 [### Quantitative Reasoning 46, The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers (Core Class) ](/class/quantitative-reasoning-46-visual-display-information-art-numbers-core-class) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2008 ### Spring, 2010 [### Quantitative Reasoning 46 : The Visual Display of Information: The Art of Numbers ](/class/quantitative-reasoning-46-visual-display-information-art-numbers) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2010 ### Spring, 2011 [### Astronomy 201b. Interstellar Medium and Star Formation ](/class/astronomy-201b-interstellar-medium-and-star-formation-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2011 Nature of the Interstellar Medium (ISM): composition, energetics, densities and interactions; observations and theory. Processes leading to the formation of stars and planets, as well as studies of the feedback on the ISM from stellar deaths. WORDPRESS SITE (Online ISM "Book... ### Spring, 2012 [### The Art of Numbers, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 19 ](/class/art-numbers-empirical-and-mathematical-reasoning-19-0) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2012 This course focuses on the insight into quantitative information offered by graphs, tables, charts, maps, and other illustrations. We analyze which of these tools are best for communicating what kinds of data, and why. Ideas about causality, approximation, statistical... ### Fall, 2013 [### Astronomy 215hf: Topics in Contemporary Astrophysics ](/class/astronomy-215hf-topics-contemporary-astrophysics) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2013 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BxIRxiTe1u6BYUltNkRmdzVmWDA&usp=sharing) Topics in Contemporary Astrophysics , This full year half course will cover a broad range of contemporary topics in observational and theoretical astrophysics through a set of 10-12 two-week modules taught by members of the Astronomy Department faculty. The course will meet... ### Spring, 2013 [### Astronomy 201b : Interstellar Medium and Star Formation ](/class/astronomy-201b-interstellar-medium-and-star-formation) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2013 Nature of the Interstellar Medium (ISM): composition, energetics, densities and interactions; observations and theory. Processes leading to the formation of stars and planets, as well as studies of the feedback on the ISM from stellar death. Paper: Nathan E. Sanders, Chris... ### Spring, 2014 [### The Art of Numbers, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning 19 ](/class/art-numbers-empirical-and-mathematical-reasoning-19) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2014 As data sets get larger and larger, visual tools for exploring them become even more important. "The Art of Numbers" focuses on the insight into quantitative information offered by graphs, tables, charts, maps, and other illustrations. The course explores which graphical... ### Spring, 2015 [### Freshman Seminar 27j - Prediction: From Ancient Omens to Modern Computer Simulations ](/class/freshman-seminar-27j-prediction-ancient-omens-modern-computer-simulations) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2015 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://predictionx.wordpress.com) Part of what makes us human is our desire to learn our own future. Throughout recorded history, people have sought ever-more-powerful methods of Prediction. In ancient times, sheep were sacrificed and priests read signs from the gods in their entrails; revered oracles were... ### Fall, 2017 [### Freshman Seminar 27j: Prediction: From Ancient Omens to Modern Computer Simulations ](/class/freshman-seminar-27j-prediction-ancient-omens-modern-computer-simulations-0) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2017_1_156929_001&returnUrl=s…) We will discuss the variety of approaches humans have taken to predicting their own future. Early weeks will focus on Omens, Oracles, Religion and Prophecy. Next, we will move on to the so-called Scientific Revolution, exemplified by the work of Galileo, and the Age of... [### PredictionX: Lost Without Longitude Explore the history of navigation, from stars to satellites ](/class/predictionx-lost-without-longitude-explore-history-navigation-stars-satellites) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-lost-without-longitude) Humans have been navigating for ages. As we developed the tools and techniques for determining location and planning a route, navigation grew into a practice, an art, and a science. Navigational skill has long been tied to commercial, economic, and military success. However... [### PredictionX: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854 ](/class/predictionx-john-snow-and-cholera-epidemic-1854) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-john-snow-cholera-epidemic-harvardx-soc1…) An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology. In 1854, a cholera epidemic swept through the London neighborhood of Soho. In the course of about three weeks, over 600 people died. This incident was, tragically... [### PredictionX: Diviner’s Guide ](/class/predictionx-diviners-guide) **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://www.edx.org/course/predictionx-diviners-guide-harvardx-soc1-practx) This course is an overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology. Humans have always sought to know their own future, be it the destiny of an empire or an individual's fate. Across cultures and history, we find people trying to... ### Fall, 2018 [### FRSEMR 27J: Prediction: From Ancient Omens to Modern Computer Simulations ](/class/frsemr-27j-prediction-ancient-omens-modern-computer-simulations) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 | **Link:** [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/43639) We will discuss the variety of approaches humans have taken to predicting their own future. Early weeks will focus on Omens, Oracles, Religion and Prophecy. Next, we will move on to the so-called Scientific Revolution, exemplified by the work of Galileo, and the Age of... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")