Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p>Join an acclaimed neurobiologist and award-winning professor for a surprising, amusing, and undeniably fascinating study of what makes you YOU by going to the front lines of scientific research to provide a new perspective on the supposedly quirky nature of being ourselves.</p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: What's So Special about Being Human?
- 02: Junk-Food Monkeys
- 03: The Burden of Being Burden-Free
- 04: Bugs in the Brain
- 05: Poverty's Remains
- 06: Why Are Dreams Dreamlike?
- 07: The Pleasures and Pains of "Maybe"
- 08: How the Other Half Heals
- 09: Why We Want the Bodies Back
- 10: Anatomy of a Bad Mood
- 11: This Is Your Brain on Metaphors
- 12: Sushi and Middle Age
Taught by
Robert Sapolsky
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