Browse Lessons

18. Freud and Fairy Tales (audio only)

5. Attending: Limiting the Information (audio only)

7. Memory: What Do You Remember? (audio only)

2. Motivation and Emotion: "Reason Alone Cannot Move Us To Do Anything" (audio only)

6. Perceiving: Interpreting the Information (audio only)

11. Language Development: What Do Children Say? (audio only)

8. Cognition: How Do You Think? (audio only)

20. Defining Mental Illness: Are Suicide Bombers Insane? (audio only)

16. Who Are you? The Psychology of the Self (audio only)

15. Attitudes and Behaviors: How Can We Be Controlled? (audio only)

4. Sensing: Gathering the Information (audio only)

3. Learning: The Power of Association (audio only)

19. Sleep and Dreams (audio only)

9. Cognitive Development: How Do Children Think? (audio only)

22. Successful Disasters: Eating Disorders (audio only)

1. The Brain: Between the Ears, Behind the Eyes (audio only)

17. From Dissociation To Repression (audio only)

14. Social Exchange: Romantic Economics (audio only)

21. Causing Mental Illness: What Can Make You "Lose" Your Mind? (audio only)

Midterm Review (audio only)

Lecture 20: Postmodern approaches (audio only)

Lecture 17: George Russell and modal jazz (audio only)

Lecture 18: Afro-Cuban music and bebop (audio only)

Lecture 16: Gil Evans / Miles Davis collaborations (audio only)

13. Health System Design: Lessons from Rwanda and Haiti (audio only)

Lecture 3: Biochemistry 2 (audio only)

Lecture 5: Einstein and Experiment

Lecture 2: Faraday, Thomson, and Maxwell: Lines of Force in the Ether

Lecture 16: Secrecy and Security in the Nuclear Age

Lecture 22: Quarks, QCD, and the Rise of the Standard Model

Lecture 11: Waves and Probabilities

Optional Discussion: Containment

Lecture 23: The Birth of Particle Cosmology

Lecture 1: Introduction to Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century

Lecture 13: Physics under Hitler

Lecture 4: Waves in the Ether

Lecture 8: Rethinking Light

Lecture 21: Teaching Feynman's Tools: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics

Lecture 7: A Political History of Gravity

Lecture 20: A Conservative Revolution: QED and Renormalization

Lecture 18: Coldwar Classroom: Teaching Quantum Theory in Postwar American Physics

Lecture 14: Radar and the Manhattan Project

Lecture 25: String Theory and the Multiverse

Lecture 9: Rethinking Matter

Optional Discussion: The Day After Trinity

Lecture 10: Matrices and Uncertainty

Lecture 12: Quantum Weirdness: Schrödinger’s Cat, EPR, and Bell’s Theorem

Lecture 24: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations