回 | 項目 | 内容 |
第1回 | Introduction to the course | Review of the syllabus etc. |
第2回 | "Stand Up and Get Educated" | How might physical activity and higher technology have an impact on education? |
第3回 | "E=MC2" | What does the world's most famous scientific equation mean? |
第4回 | "Science Is Where It's At" | Why have some people had problems learning science, and why is science education important? |
第5回 | "Whence the Human Being?" | Could people have evolved from bears? |
第6回 | "Our Place in the Universe" | Might we be part of something too big for us to discover and to prove that it even exists? |
第7回 | "Geography and Ignorance" | Where are places, and what is important in determining locations? |
第8回 | Review of lessons 2-7 | Open session to discuss items in the previous six lessons. |
第9回 | "Plowshares from Swords?" | How might people demonstrate intelligence by playing with words? |
第10回 | "Language versus Mathematics" | Which is more difficult to acquire at a very high level, a language or mathematics? |
第11回 | "Free Will or No Free Will?" | Do people make choices, or has everything already been determined? |
第12回 | "Look Old and Save Money" | What are some ridiculous ways in which people might try to save trivial amounts of money? |
第13回 | "How to Win Trophies" | How might people try to prove that they are better than they are? |
第14回 | Review of lessons 9-13 | Open session to discuss items in the previous five lessons. |
第15回 | "Animals in Sports" | What constitutes animal abuse? |
第16回 | "Restrain Them Dogs!" | How can problems with troublesome pets be solved? |
第17回 | "To Help or to Talk about Helping?" | Under what circumstances, if at all, do people help others in need? |
第18回 | "Health Care and the Market" | Can free-market capitalism solve every problem faced by society? |
第19回 | "Replenish Those Aquifers!" | Why is water a very important resource? |
第20回 | "Ecology and Class Warfare" | Do rules and laws pertaining to ecology have an unfairly disadvantageous impact on some people? |
第21回 | Review of lessons 15-20 | Open session to discuss items in the previous six lessons. |
第22回 | "The Classiness of Art" | Who decides what qualifies as "art" and what its value is? |
第23回 | "Do Yoga in a Health Club" | What are some reasons that people go to sports centers? |
第24回 | "A New Use for Levitation" | Might unfamiliarity with an exotic philosophy lead to strange ideas? |
第25回 | "U.F.O.s" | Are UFOs vehicles visiting us from Outer Space, or rather something else? |
第26回 | "The Electronic Pud-Puller" | Why are machines invented, and what goes on while the work is in progress? |
第27回 | "Do Prairie Dogs Bark or Chirp?" | What drives an academic to undertake research? |
第28回 | Review of lessons 22-27 | Open session to discuss items in the previous six lessons. |
第29回 | (Test week) | (Nothing) |
第30回 | (Test week) | (Nothing) |