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1.1 Mathematics and the epidemic
1.1 Mathematics and epidemics – Part 2
1.2 Fundamentals: atoms and elements (short version)
1.2a Atoms and elements
1.3 Molecules
1.4 Inside the atom
1.5 Volts, Amps and Watts
Our bodies
2.1 How do pills know where to go?
2.10 Drug and vaccine development
2.11 Very small and very busy: life inside the cell
2.12 Immunity, vaccines and variants
2.12 Further Information on Immunity, vaccines and variants
2.13 It’s in the genes: why we look like our parents – a bit.
2.14 Species , breeds and cultivars
2.15 Feeling ill
2.17 Memory
2.18 The heart and blood system
2.19 Ailments of the heart and blood system
2.2 Depression: the vital role of serotonin
2.20 Happiness
2.21 How we grow – from embryo to adult
2.22 Conflict and Cooperation
2.23 Coping with Winter
2.24 Imagining impossible things
2.25 Lymph, blood and hormones: body systems
2.26 A trip down the alimentary canal
2.27 Muscles: how they work
2.28 Must teenagers rebel
2.29 How drugs work: ozempic, aspirin and more
2.3 Brain, behaviour and learning
2.30 Resisting temptation
2.31 Ultra Processed Food – part I Background
2.32 Ultra Processed Food – part II Additives
2.33 Curiosity
2.34 The origins of inequality
2.4 Enzymes
2.5 Vaccination and antibodies
2.6 Sugar, carbs and type-2 diabetes
2.7 COVID-19 part 1: Viruses, Lungs and Vaccines
2.8 COVID-19 part 2: epidemics, protection and social behaviour
2.8 Read More on COVID-19 part 2: epidemics, protection and social behaviour
2.9 Mutation, genes and proteins
2.16 Dreaming and sleeping
The world around us
3.1 Whistling in the Wind
3.10 How do plants ‘know’ when to flower?
3.11 Relativity
3.12 Reasons to be (a bit) cheerful (sometimes)
3.13 The sun sets in the West – does it?
3.14 Making decisions
3.15 Sticking Together: the science of adhesion
3.16 the perennial question of sex
3.17 Singing and navigating – the extraordinary feats of ordinary birds
3.18 Energy and force – what’s the difference?
3.19 Highs, lows, rain and snow: interpreting weather maps
3.2 The geometry of ice
3.20 Gravity part 1: gravitational force and the solar system
3.21 Gravity part 2: star formation and Einstein’s alternative concept
3.22 The James Webb Space Telescope: images from the early universe
3.23 Gears
3.24 Combatting climate change – part one
3.24 Combatting Climate Change – part two
3.26 Autumn leaves and the cycle of life
3.27 Falling under gravity
3.28 AI: comparing machines and brains
3.29 Playgrounds – a lesson in physics
3.3 Walking on water – the story of surface tension
3.30 Must chemistry by boring?
3.31 Floods and other flowing things
3.32 Where does electricity come from?
3.33 Steam power in the industrial revolution.
3.34 ‘Rare earths’ and the green revolution
3.35 Dark Matter
3.4 The colour of light
3.5. Atmospheric rivers
3.6 Aeroplanes– what on Earth keeps them up?
3.7 Why your ears go ‘pop’
3.8 Fire: why wood burns
3.9 A nice warm shower: heat and temperature
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