Understanding Science
Professional Development
How Does an LLM Work?
Understanding the Complex: What actually happens when you give a machine a question and it answers? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
What Is AGI, Actually?
Understanding the Complex: What is AGI, why can't anyone agree on a definition, who's building it, and what's at stake? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
What Is Consciousness?
Understanding the Complex: Why does it feel like something to be me — and why can't science explain that yet? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
Understanding Quantum Computing
Understanding the Complex: What can a quantum computer actually do that a classical one can't — and why is the road there so much harder than headlines suggest? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity — Without the Formulas
Understanding the Complex: Why your GPS needs Einstein — and what relativity actually says about space and time. 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
The Search for a Theory of Everything
Understanding the Complex: Why has physics spent a century searching for one theory that explains everything — and what would it mean to find it? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
Nuclear Fusion — The Dream of Unlimited Energy
Understanding the Complex: Why has fusion been 'the energy source of the future' for 70 years — and why might this time be different? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
CRISPR and the Gene Revolution
Understanding the Complex: What is CRISPR really — and why is it simultaneously the most promising medical technology in decades and the most serious biosecurity risk of our time? 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
Climate Models — How Do We Know What Happens in 2100?
Understanding the Complex: How does a climate model work — and how much can you actually trust one? The finale of the Understanding the Complex series. 11 lessons, ~150 minutes, free.
Black Holes — What Really Happens When Space Ends
From the first image of Sgr A* to the information paradox: 11 lessons on black hole physics, grounded in real science, honest about what we don''t know.