Being Human : Life Lessons From the Frontiers of Science
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Compact discs.
12 lectures with 30 min. each.
Lecture 1: What's so special about being human? -- Lecture 2: Junk-food monkeys -- Lecture 3: The burden of being burden-free -- Lecture 4: Bugs in the brain -- Lecture 5: Poverty's remains -- Lecture 6: Why are dreams dreamlike? -- Lecture 7: The pleasures and pains of "maybe" -- Lecture 8: How the other half heals -- Lecture 9: Why we want the bodies back -- Lecture 10: Anatomy of a bad mood -- Lecture 11: This is your brain on metaphors -- Lecture 12: Sushi and middle age.
Robert Sapolsky, professor, Stanford University.
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SERIES
Great courses. Science & mathematics.
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 6 sound discs : digita1 ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 90 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1598038095
9781598038095
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Teaching Company.
SUBJECTS
Brain.
Human genome.