The mythology course sounds fun. We have a historical linguistics course here, but it'll wait until we're done with Babylon 5.

I don't think physics actually rewards linear thinking once you get past Newton; my lectures on quantum physics (World History, after all) are a model of metaphor and admitted ignorance.

I bet the library has some of these courses too. Then you don't have to buy them. Libraries are a beautiful thing(s).

Oooo--historical linguistics! That sounds fabulous, Jonathan. I took an all-too brief linguistics course one time--I'd love to dig more deeply into that subject.

I may have to do the physics course, mathematical ignorance notwithstanding. If nothing else, the course on dark matter. (And the sooner they get to the nonlinear thinking part of it, the better I'll do--nonlinear is my specialty. Heh.)

Libraries are, indeed, beautiful things, Ruth, but I don't begrudge the company that provides these courses (or the professors who deliver them) a fair fee.

Also--most of the topics I'm most tempted by? There's a better-than-even chance I'm going to be going through the material more than once.

How's life?