12 Essential Scientific Concepts

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Call Number: BOCD 509 Vi Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 509 Vi Oversize	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Course no. 1126.
Compact discs.
Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is ca. 30 min.
Disc 1: The miracle of life -- The organization of life -- disc 2: Evolution: the tireless tinkerer -- Other mechanisms of evolution -- disc 3: DNA and heritability -- Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion -- disc 4: The illusion of coherence: how we see -- Acoustic perception deconstructed -- disc 5: Our changing brain -- Plasticity, brain training, and beyond -- disc 6: Magnetism and its magic -- Electrical forces, fields, and circuits -- disc 7: Thermodynamics: heat, energy, and work -- Metabolism: energy in the cell -- disc 8: Fluid mechanics: pressure, buoyancy, flow -- Navigation and propulsion in fluids -- disc 9: The Big Bang that didn't -- The four forces of nature -- disc 10: The elements of everything -- Looks like a particle, acts like a wave -- disc 11: Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat -- String theory, membranes, and the multiverse -- disc 12: Emergence: simple rules, complex systems -- Order out of chaos.
Lecturer: Professor Indre Viskontas, University of California, San Francisco.

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