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Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science

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<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

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
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Robert Sapolsky

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