Explore 12 of science’s bedrock ideas in this course that introduces you to exciting fields like quantum theory, emergence, thermodynamics, and brain plasticity.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Miracle of Life
- 02: The Organization of Life
- 03: Evolution-The Tireless Tinkerer
- 04: Other Mechanisms of Evolution
- 05: DNA and Heritability
- 06: Epigenetics, Mutations, and Gene Insertion
- 07: The Illusion of Coherence-How We See
- 08: Acoustic Perception Deconstructed
- 09: Our Changing Brain
- 10: Plasticity, Brain Training, and Beyond
- 11: Magnetism and Its Magic
- 12: Electrical Forces, Fields, and Circuits
- 13: Thermodynamics-Heat, Energy, and Work
- 14: Metabolism-Energy in the Cell
- 15: Fluid Mechanics-Pressure, Buoyancy, Flow
- 16: Navigation and Propulsion in Fluids
- 17: The Big Bang That Didn't
- 18: The Four Forces of Nature
- 19: The Elements of Everything
- 20: Looks like a Particle, Acts like a Wave
- 21: Quanta, Uncertainty, and a Cat
- 22: String Theory, Membranes, and the Multiverse
- 23: Emergence-Simple Rules, Complex Systems
- 24: Order out of Chaos
Taught by
Indre Viskontas
