Intermediate Lessons

Lec12: Evolution and the development and plasticity of behavior, part 1

Lec4: Ethology and Konrad Lorenz' Jackdaws

Lec25: Cultural determinism and sociobiology

Lec16: Foraging behaviors

Lec8: Innate behaviors, motivation and fundamentals of ethology

Lec21: Genetic influences on social behavior

Lec6: Fixed action patterns and central nervous system

36. Neocortex, part 2

34. Corpus striatum, part 2

28. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 2

31. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 5

22. Visual systems, part 2

18. Motor systems and brain states, part 4

17. Motor systems and brain states, part 3

26. Forebrain evolution

16. Motor systems and brain states, part 2

23. Visual systems, part 3

12. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 3: Vertebrate forebrain evolution and organization

8. Spinal cord development and anatomy, part 2

10. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 1: Hindbrain and cranial nerves, specializations

32. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 6

29. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 3

27. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 1

25. Auditory systems, part 2

24. Auditory systems, part 1

21. Visual systems, part 1

14. CNS differentiation and axon growth, part 2

5. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 1

6. Specializations in the evolving CNS, part 2

11. Differentiation of the brain vesicles, part 2: Developmental distortions; evolution of...

38. Plasticity in brain connections

30. Hypothalamus and limbic system, part 4

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 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 11: Waves and Probabilities

Optional Discussion: Containment

Lecture 13: Physics under Hitler

Lecture 4: Waves in the Ether

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 14: Radar and the Manhattan Project