Mind Blown

50 boards, 64 lessons, 492 review questions and 25 narrated videos, in 8 chapters. Read them in order. Each chapter builds on the one before.

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Contents

1Numbers that run away9 lessons
Doubling to the moon, compounding, one row in ten million, and the chance puzzles that fool almost everyone.
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Fold a Paper to the Moon Why You Cannot Fold Paper Past Seven Times Compound Interest The 8th Wonder One Row in Ten Million The Birthday Paradox Monty Hall, the Illegal Switch The 99 Percent Test That Is Usually Wrong The Statistic That Reverses Itself Real Numbers Start With 1 Too Often
2Where logic bites back11 lessons
A secret shouted in public, questions no computer can answer, truths no proof reaches, bigger infinities, and systems nobody is steering.
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A Secret Shouted Across a Room The Question No Computer Can Answer Truths Math Cannot Prove Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others Cut One Ball Into Two Identical Balls How Long Is a Coastline The Road That Slows Everyone No One Is in Charge, Emergence The Map Is Not the Territory
3Waves: sound and light8 lessons
Every sound as sine waves, the falling siren, silence made of noise, blue skies and seas, the microwave, and the mirror.
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Every Sound Is Sine Waves Why the Siren Drops as It Passes Silence Built From More Noise Why the Sky Is Blue Why the Ocean Is Blue Why the Microwave Heats the Food Not the Plate Why a Mirror Flips Left-Right but Not Up-Down
4What stuff does10 lessons
You are mostly empty space. Ice floats, hot water freezes first, wings lift, soap tears germs, onions sting, batteries hold a cliff, a transistor switches.
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You Are Empty Space Why Ice Floats Hot Water Can Freeze Faster Than Cold How Planes Actually Fly How Soap Destroys Germs Why Onions Make You Cry A Battery Stores a Chemical Cliff A Transistor Is Just a Switch
5Space, time and the very small6 lessons
Starlight as a time machine, relativity in your phone, black holes, entanglement, the watched particle, and the silent sky.
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The Night Sky Is a Time Machine Your Phone Runs on Einstein The Place Where Light Cannot Escape Spooky Action at a Distance Watch a Particle and It Changes Where Is Everybody
6Your body6 lessons
Written in four letters, guarded by wanted posters, fooled by sugar pills, switched off for surgery, asleep a third of its life, and untickleable by itself.
You Are Written in 4 Letters A Wanted Poster for Your Immune System The Sugar Pill That Actually Works The Off Switch for You, Anaesthesia Why You Spend a Third of Life Unconscious Why You Cannot Tickle Yourself
7Your mind6 lessons
The hole you never see, the giant moon, years that speed up, the memories you cannot reach, and confidence that grows as knowledge shrinks.
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You Have a Hole in Your Vision The Moon Illusion Why Time Speeds Up as You Age Why You Cannot Remember Being a Baby The Less You Know the More Sure You Feel
8Earth, sky and deep time8 lessons
Why summer is not closer to the Sun, what the Moon's phases are not, why the night is dark, an eye nobody designed, Earth's history as one year, ground that moves like fingernails, a blanket that lets light in, and ten checks for the kitchen table.

Borrowed from other tracks (4)

You don't need to take those tracks. These are the only lessons this track uses from them, and each is linked where it is needed.