Learning Objectives

  1. Calculate the length of each of Sagan's days, hours, and minutes.
  2. Illustrate an example of mindsharing or cooperative cognitive work you have engaged in with another using few if any words.
  3. Appraise whether the recent use of Zoom or similar electronic tools to teach courses made geography lose its traditional distance barriers.
  4. Diagnose why only two carnivores (dogs and cats) were domesticated.
  5. Predict what new technology or device might be a candidate for global standardization.
  6. Demonstrate relativistic thinking where a male might interpret a cultural situation differently from a female.
  7. Interpret why humorism had such a long life in the history of medicine.