Disc 1: The miracle of life --
The organization of life --
Evolution: the tireless tinkerer --
Other mechanisms of evolution --
Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion --
disc 2: The illusion of coherence: how we see --
Acoustic perception deconstructed --
Plasticity, brain training, and beyond --
Magnetism and its magic --
Electrical forces, fields, and circuits --
disc 3: Thermodynamics: heat, energy, and work --
Metabolism: energy in the cell --
Fluid mechanics: pressure, buoyancy, flow Navigation and propulsion in fluids --
The Big Bang that didn't --
The four forces of nature --
disc 4: The elements of everything --
Looks like a particle, acts like a wave --
Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat --
String theory, membranes, and the multiverse --
Emergence: simple rules, complex systems --