This course covers a wide range of topics related to human biology and health, aiming to deepen the understanding of various bodily functions and medical conditions. The learning outcomes include gaining insights into the workings of different body systems, understanding the causes and effects of common health issues, and exploring the impact of external factors on human health. The course teaches individual skills such as recognizing symptoms, understanding medical processes, and making informed health-related decisions. The teaching method involves a series of lectures delivered by experts in the field, each focusing on a specific topic. The intended audience for this course includes individuals interested in human biology, health sciences, and medical research, as well as those seeking to enhance their knowledge of the human body and common health conditions.
Overview
Syllabus
What are those floaty things in your eye? - Michael Mauser.
What makes muscles grow? - Jeffrey Siegel.
What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli.
What would happen if you didn’t sleep? - Claudia Aguirre.
How does anesthesia work? - Steven Zheng.
The benefits of good posture - Murat Dalkilinç.
Why are some people left-handed? - Daniel M. Abrams.
Why do women have periods?.
How your digestive system works - Emma Bryce.
Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç.
Why do we cry? The three types of tears - Alex Gendler.
Cell vs. virus: A battle for health - Shannon Stiles.
Is marijuana bad for your brain? - Anees Bahji.
The science of attraction - Dawn Maslar.
What makes tattoos permanent? - Claudia Aguirre.
Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce.
What happens during a heart attack? - Krishna Sudhir.
Debunking the myths of OCD - Natascha M. Santos.
How a wound heals itself - Sarthak Sinha.
How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw.
How stress affects your body - Sharon Horesh Bergquist.
How blood pressure works - Wilfred Manzano.
What causes kidney stones? - Arash Shadman.
Why do your knuckles pop? - Eleanor Nelsen.
How do vitamins work? - Ginnie Trinh Nguyen.
At what moment are you dead? - Randall Hayes.
How does alcohol make you drunk? - Judy Grisel.
How to make a mummy - Len Bloch.
The immortal cells of Henrietta Lacks - Robin Bulleri.
Is it bad to hold your pee? - Heba Shaheed.
Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer? - Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson.
Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun.
The surprising reason our muscles get tired - Christian Moro.
What causes headaches? - Dan Kwartler.
The science of spiciness - Rose Eveleth.
How Do Pain Relievers Work? - George Zaidan.
Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia.
How does caffeine keep us awake? - Hanan Qasim.
The surprising effects of pregnancy.
How the heart actually pumps blood - Edmond Hui.
How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce.
The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick - Marco A. Sotomayor.
What causes antibiotic resistance? - Kevin Wu.
Why do blood types matter? - Natalie S. Hodge.
How does your body process medicine? - Céline Valéry.
Why do some people go bald? - Sarthak Sinha.
How does laser eye surgery work? - Dan Reinstein.
The science of skin color - Angela Koine Flynn.
How long should your naps be? - Sara C. Mednick.
What causes body odor? - Mel Rosenberg.
Why do we hiccup? - John Cameron.
What is fat? - George Zaidan.
What’s that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson.
What causes bad breath? - Mel Rosenberg.
What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson.
Which type of milk is best for you? - Jonathan J. O’Sullivan & Grace E. Cunningham.
Why do we have hair in such random places? - Nina G. Jablonski.
How does your brain respond to pain? - Karen D. Davis.
Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa.
Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre.
How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir.
What does the liver do? - Emma Bryce.
How do lungs work? - Emma Bryce.
What happens during a stroke? - Vaibhav Goswami.
How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works - Nassim Assefi and Brian A. Levine.
The surprising cause of stomach ulcers - Rusha Modi.
What causes constipation? - Heba Shaheed.
Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler.
How do glasses help us see? - Andrew Bastawrous and Clare Gilbert.
Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler.
How does chemotherapy work? - Hyunsoo Joshua No.
What we know (and don't know) about Ebola - Alex Gendler.
How do ventilators work? - Alex Gendler.
You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin.
What happens when your DNA is damaged? - Monica Menesini.
The dangers of mixing drugs - Céline Valéry.
Why is meningitis so dangerous? - Melvin Sanicas.
How does cancer spread through the body? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun.
Why do our bodies age? - Monica Menesini.
How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? - George Zaidan.
How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone.
How your muscular system works - Emma Bryce.
Why do we have to wear sunscreen? - Kevin P. Boyd.
What happens when you get heat stroke? - Douglas J. Casa.
Is there a disease that makes us love cats? - Jaap de Roode.
The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen.
How X-rays see through your skin - Ge Wang.
How do we smell? - Rose Eveleth.
What is a coronavirus? - Elizabeth Cox.
Why do humans have a third eyelid? - Dorsa Amir.
Why does your voice change as you get older? - Shaylin A. Schundler.
How do viruses jump from animals to humans? - Ben Longdon.
How do your kidneys work? - Emma Bryce.
The mystery of motion sickness - Rose Eveleth.
Eye vs. camera - Michael Mauser.
What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat? - Mike Davis.
What makes tuberculosis (TB) the world's most infectious killer? - Melvin Sanicas.
What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them? - Cindy J. Aaronson.
Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? - Laurence Hurst.
The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate.
What are stem cells? - Craig A. Kohn.
The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it) - Mikael Cho.
The evolution of the human eye - Joshua Harvey.
How menstruation works - Emma Bryce.
What is epigenetics? - Carlos Guerrero-Bosagna.
The past, present and future of the bubonic plague - Sharon N. DeWitte.
How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji.
How do contraceptives work? - NWHunter.
Why are human bodies asymmetrical? - Leo Q. Wan.
How optical illusions trick your brain - Nathan S. Jacobs.
Does stress cause pimples? - Claudia Aguirre.
How to grow a bone - Nina Tandon.
How to sequence the human genome - Mark J. Kiel.
Why do we sweat? - John Murnan.
How do scars form? - Sarthak Sinha.
Why do we pass gas? - Purna Kashyap.
How mucus keeps us healthy - Katharina Ribbeck.
How does the thyroid manage your metabolism? - Emma Bryce.
Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz.
Secrets of the X chromosome - Robin Ball.
What is obesity? - Mia Nacamulli.
How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor.
Who's at risk for colon cancer? - Amit H. Sachdev and Frank G. Gress.
Claws vs. nails - Matthew Borths.
Why do you need to get a flu shot every year? - Melvin Sanicas.
How close are we to eradicating HIV? - Philip A. Chan.
How do germs spread (and why do they make us sick)? - Yannay Khaikin and Nicole Mideo.
The accident that changed the world - Allison Ramsey and Mary Staicu.
What does the pancreas do? - Emma Bryce.
What is leukemia? - Danilo Allegra and Dania Puggioni.
What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? - Prosanta Chakrabarty.
The fascinating science behind phantom limbs - Joshua W. Pate.
How this disease changes the shape of your cells - Amber M. Yates.
How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar.
How bones make blood - Melody Smith.
How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew.
How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? - Gerry Wright.
Why do you get a fever when you're sick? - Christian Moro.
Can loud music damage your hearing? - Heather Malyuk.
Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour.
What is HPV and how can you protect yourself from it? - Emma Bryce.
What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster.
How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt.
Can you be awake and asleep at the same time? - Masako Tamaki.
How to master your sense of smell - Alexandra Horowitz.
What happens to your brain during a migraine - Marianne Schwarz.
How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen.
How do you know if you have a virus? - Cella Wright.
The effects of underwater pressure on the body - Neosha S Kashef.
The race to sequence the human genome - Tien Nguyen.
Which sunscreen should you choose? - Mary Poffenroth.
Why haven’t we cured arthritis? - Kaitlyn Sadtler and Heather J. Faust.
Why do people have seasonal allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen.
Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein.
How do nerves work? - Elliot Krane.
The twisting tale of DNA - Judith Hauck.
Is DNA the future of data storage? - Leo Bear-McGuinness.
Why is it so hard to cure ALS? - Fernando G. Vieira.
What did dogs teach humans about diabetes? - Duncan C. Ferguson.
Do larger animals take longer to pee? - David L. Hu.
What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? - Christopher E. Gaw.
Could a blind eye regenerate? - David Davila.
RNAi: Slicing, dicing and serving your cells - Alex Dainis.
Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - Tal Danino.
The cancer gene we all have - Michael Windelspecht.
How breathing works - Nirvair Kaur.
How to 3D print human tissue - Taneka Jones.
What’s in the air you breathe? - Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll.
Performing brain surgery without a scalpel - Hyunsoo Joshua No.
How to see with sound - Jacques S. Abramowicz.
A curable condition that causes blindness - Andrew Bastawrous.
Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? - Julian Burschka.
Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases? - Greg Foot.
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