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Overview
Syllabus
- By This Expert
- 01: How Dinosaurs Grew So Large and So Small
- 02: Are We the Only Intelligent Life in the Galaxy?
- 03: Decoding the Puzzle of Human Consciousness
- 04: Why Your Brain Needs Exercise
- 05: The First Monster Black Holes
- 06: Pets: Why Do We Have Them?
- 07: The Mysteries of Neandertal Art
- 08: Six Ways to Boost Brainpower
- 09: Mathematical Games: The Enduring Appeal of Tic-Tac-Toe
- 10: Earthquakes in the Sky
- 11: Why Good Thoughts Block Better Ones
- 12: Sleep On It
- 13: Thinking like Einstein
- 14: Predicting the Next Pandemic
- 15: A (Dino) Star Is Born
Taught by
Scientific American
