Serious Science Courses

Neuroscience

Syllabus: Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston. Theory of Mind - Uta Frith. Empathy - Chris Frith. Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs — Barbara Sahakian / Serious Science. DNA and Behavioral Genetics - Robert Plomin. Neural Basis of Social Interaction - Chris Fri…

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• 10 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Particle Physics

Syllabus: Supergravity and Kaluza-Klein Theory – Hadi Godazgar. Higher-Spin Gauge Theory — Xavier Bekaert / Serious Science. Quantizing gravity - Xavier Bekaert. Atom Interferometry - David Pritchard. Neutrino-Nuclean Scatlering at High Energy - Frank Ta…

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Medicine

Syllabus: Genetics of Obesity and Diabetes - Nick Wareham. Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs — Barbara Sahakian / Serious Science. Sylvain Baillet — Clinical brain imaging. Cancer Metastasis Promotion by CCR5 Receptor - Richard Pestell. Cell Cycle and Cancer - R…

• YouTube
• 12 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Astrophysics

Syllabus: Essence of Gravity - Martin Rees. Exoplanets — Didier Queloz. Is There a Ninth Planet in the Solar System?. Hawking Radiation – Hadi Godazgar. Supergravity and Kaluza-Klein Theory – Hadi Godazgar. Higher dimensional gravity — Mahdi Godazgar. Bl…

• YouTube
• 10 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Music Psychology

Syllabus: Perception of Music — Diana Omigie. Music and Perinatal Care — Daisy Fancourt. Musical Memory — Daniel Müllensiefen. Arts 'on Prescription' — Daisy Fancourt. Music and Autism — Pamela Heaton / Serious Science. Music-induced Emotions — Diana Omi…

• YouTube
• 2-3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Biology

Syllabus: Genome Annotation — Tim Hubbard / Serious Science. D'Arcy Thompson's Theory of Transformation — Arkhat Abzhanov / Serious Science. Genes and the Environment — Steve Jones / Serious Science. Cognition Without a Cortex — Onur Güntürkün / Serious…

• YouTube
• 11 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Mathematics

Syllabus: Undecidable Problems — Gareth Jones / Serious Science. Prime Numbers — Gareth Jones / Serious Science. Dialetheic Solutions to the Liar Paradox - Stephen Read. Formal Logic - Denis Bonnay. Philosophy of Logic - Denis Bonnay. Logic and Mathemati…

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• 2-3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

History

Syllabus: Materiality in the History of Christianity — Peter Jones / Serious Science. Renaissance Maps of Paradise Alessandro Scafi. Dante’s Heaven — Alessandro Scafi. Globes and Representations of the Cosmos — Liba Taub. Medieval Mapping — Alessandro Sc…

• YouTube
• 5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Linguistics

Syllabus: Brain Language Research — Friedemann Pulvermüller / Serious Science. Language Acquisition in Children Ben Ambridge. Theories of Language Acquisition Ben Ambridge. Plasticity in Speech Perception Sophie Scott. Speech Processing Sophie Scott. N…

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• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Earth Science

Syllabus: Carbon Cycle — Mathias Disney / Serious Science. Rapid Climate Change and Species — Ian Colin Prentice / Serious Science. Fresh Water and Climate Change — Anson Mackay / Serious Science. Human Impact on Freshwater Ecosystem — Anson Mackay / Ser…

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• 4-5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Physics

Syllabus: Gravitational Lensing — Alan Heavens / Serious Science. Standard Model and Supersymmetry — John Ellis / Serious Science. Fundamental Interactions — Jonathan Butterworth / Serious Science. Early Universe — John Ellis / Serious Science. Schroding…

• YouTube
• 7 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Culture

Syllabus: The New Science of Culture — Armand Leroi / Serious Science. The History of Laughter — Peter Jones / Serious Science. Love and Pain — Peter Jones / Serious Science. Science and Spectacle in 18th Century Russia Simon Werrett. Social condenser' a…

• YouTube
• 9 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Genetics

Syllabus: Genes and Sunlight — Steve Jones / Serious Science. Genome Annotation — Tim Hubbard / Serious Science. Genes and the Environment — Steve Jones / Serious Science. Genome Medicine — Tim Hubbard / Serious Science. Educational Achievement and Intel…

• YouTube
• 4-5 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophy

Syllabus: Materiality in the History of Christianity — Peter Jones / Serious Science. The History of Laughter — Peter Jones / Serious Science. Social Epistemology — Steve Fuller / Serious Science. Love and Pain — Peter Jones / Serious Science. End of Kno…

• YouTube
• 7 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Chemistry

Syllabus: Quantum Theory of Chemical Reactions — David Clary / Serious Science. Schrodinger and His Equation — David Clary / Serious Science. Computational Methods in Chemistry - Mark Tuckerman. Black Silicon - Eric Mazur. Microscopic theory of melting –…

• YouTube
• 2-3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course