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By Dave Glish

The Great Courses In Rick’s Presidents message he
mentioned my interest In “The Great Courses”. This
is a company that produces lecture series’ by people
on a very wide variety of subjects. You can purchase
an online copy, where you can stream or download
the lectures. Or, you can purchase a physical copy
and they will send you a batch of DVDs. With the
later, you can also download the lectures or watch
them online.
I purchased my first
course a number of
years ago. It was on
Optimizing Brain Fit- with John, so I am a fanboy. During the lecture on
ness. Last month they the Beatles time on the Ed Sullivan show I also
had a special where a learned that Ed basically saved the play Camalot
bunch of their courses were $25.00 each for online, from obscurity. It wasn’t doing particularly well on
or $35.00 each for the physical version. Broadway until Ed had the cast members perform a
I bought 3 of the online courses. England, the 1960s bunch of the songs on his show. The play ended up
and the Triumph of the Beatles (12 lectures) Won- being a big hit and became a favorite of JFK.
ders of the National Parks: A Geology of North I’m just starting the Photography series, so it’s too
America (36 lectures) Fundamentals of Photography. soon to tell how that one will go. I plan on spending
(24 lectures) some of my free

I’m about halfway time this summer
through the National getting back into
Parks series. I should photography.
have paid closer atten- Rick mentioned
tion to the word “The Great Courses
“Geology” before I or- Plus” subscription.
dered that series. I This allows you to see any or all of the lecture series
was hoping for more of a, this is what to see in the while you are a subscriber. There truly are lecture
parks. The lectures are really on how the parks and series on just about any subject you might be inter-
the country were created. My wife was bored, but I ested in.
find it interesting and have learned a lot about plate
tectonics, earth quakes, and the ice ages. I guess I’ve taken all four of my lectures and saved them to
my inner geek is showing. my Synology NAS box. This lets me access them
directly from my smart TV without having to go
I’ve found the series on the online. I can also access them on my phone or Tab-
Beatles fascinating. I just lets by using a video software app specifically de-
recently finished a book by signed for the Synology. Next month I’ll try to do an
Cynthia Lennon, on her time article on this NAS box.

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