Including: Metropolis (Fritz Lang's Masterpiece); 2001, A Space Odyssey; Spielberg's ET; Blade Runner, Star Wars; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Wall-E; Forbidden Planet; The Day the Earth Stood Still and Tron.
Including: The eternal Egyptian Mummy, the mastery of the Ancient Egyptians; Ancient Rome and the cleverness of concrete; Prussian Blue (the first modern pigment),Gutenberg's Printing Press; the invention of tube paint; the advent of photography; Eadweard Muybridge and Instantaneous Photography, precursor to film, the Zoopraxiscope!
An Introduction to Neuroscience
Including: Cells and the Anatomy of the Brain; gray matter/white matter; Neural Communication; Synaptic Plasticity and Memory; Computational Neuroscience; computational psychiatry.
The History of Computers
Including: How it all started; The story of the ENIAC; Project Whirlwind, Video Games; the Internet, Social Media, and Mobile Computing; Familiar and Unfamiliar faces: among them, Ada Lovelace, the daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, considered to be the first computer programmer; David Hilbert and A.M. Turing and the Entscheidungsproblem to Jobs and Gates, and many more "movers and shakers."
An Introduction to Science Fiction
Including: Frankenstein, Pulp Magazines and the Golden Age of Science Fiction; the New Wave, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Ursula Le Guin and The Lathe of Heaven; Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter; Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce and more...
Economics and Technology, Innovation and the Economy
Mathematics: Geometry and an Introduction to Differential Calculus