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Mind-blowing science. Season 2 [videorecording (DVD)].

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The Teaching Co., 2021.

DVD 500 M663 Season 2

Discoveries in science.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. Mind-blowing science. Season 2 [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

2 videodiscs (240 min.) : DVD video, 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

"Adapted from Scientific American articles"--Container.

15 lectures; total running time: 240 min.

Course No. 90102.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Do we live in a simulation? / Anil Ananthaswamy -- A model octopus / Rachel Nuwer -- How to control your feelings / Steve Ayan -- How birds branched out / Kate Wong -- Survival of the friendliest / Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods -- A new map of the universe / Kyle Dawson and Will Percival -- How stress shuts down your brain / Amy Arnsten, Carolyn M. Mazure, and Rajita Sinha -- Protecting earth from asteroids / Sarah Scoles -- Disc 2. Humans are still evolving / John Hawks -- Lifting the Venus curse / Robin George Andrews -- Top emerging technologies / Various authors -- Secrets of the Antikythera machine / Tony Freeth -- Extreme birding / Kate Wong -- Psychedelic treatments for psychiatric disorders / Danielle Schlosser and Thomas R. Insel -- Should doctors stop prescribing weight loss? / Virginia Sole-Smith.

"For those who are not already familiar with the venerable publication Scientific American, it was founded in 1845 and is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. Devoted to covering the advances in research and discoveries that are changing our understanding of the world and shaping our lives, Scientific American provides insights and illumination about the most important developments at the intersection of science and society. More than 200 Nobel Prize winners have contributed to this flagship publication, along with thousands of scientific experts across dozens of subjects, including Albert Einstein. We invite you to join more than a dozen esteemed experts and take a deep dive across a broad assortment of fascinating topics that range from the Antikythera mechanism to the 300 close calls the Earth has had with asteroids"--Publisher's website.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Teaching Company.

Scientific American, inc.

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