Looking at the channel, its about four years old. It seems to marry “chill” music and images with relaxing readings of generally complicated or long material often needed by college students.
Around the time that AI voices made a great leap in quality about two years ago and the image creation, they seemed to switch over to that.
This latest one seems to be using the AI generated “studio ghibli-style” for its images and an AI voice that seems like a person talking. A peek into the oldest videos, they show just as high quality a production as this newer one.
Encouraging students to be unafraid to lean on online glossaries and ChatGPT / AI help when stuck I think was a very smart move; for example, I made myself several history tables of the period covered by Chapters 1-4 + 10. a) critical periods in philosophy of the Islamic world b) What was happening in Europe + Far East in those same reference periods c) intersections between cultures (which covered some conflicts) and finally d) longest useful time spans including geological (which gave me Chinese dynasties and climate warming trends and grouped caliphates, etc).
With this I’m starting to get a “feel” for the time periods in a kind of spatiotemporal database sort of way and I’ll redo them as the material expands/focuses.
[I also looked for and found a personal link: Some of my genealogy connects to the “World Tree” and when I saw a mention Ummayyd Dynasty extending into Iberia – I remembered seeing _somebody from Spain in that time frame.
I looked, and it turns out Princess of Pamplona, Onneca / Durr, Íñiga Fortúnez. (848 AD), is my 34th Great-Grandmother. She was first married to Emir Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, 3rd Caliph of Cordoba, not as a Christian slave but as a Christian wife, allowing a marriage of dynasties.
They had some kids, then divorced and she remarried one of her cousins, who is my actual 34th great-grandfather.
This makes me 1st/2nd/3rd cousin to a whole line of Cordoba Caliphs through marriage, even if not by blood, (so I see things like:
Caliph ‘Abd ar-Rahmân III al-Nasir ibn Muhammad, emir of Córdoba is your first cousin 34 times removed.
tying me to al-Andalus in a weird way.
As a fellow INFP, you know how important find that emotional “hook” can be; to find some way to care about material that might be difficult. So whether or not we cover material from the “far west”,
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