Directed by The Great Courses

Don Lincoln

Join a Senior Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on a 24-episode exploration of shocking truths about some of science's most well-known (and often controversial) concepts

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

What the World Gets Wrong about Science

Episode 2

Franklin's Kite and Other Electrifying Myths

Episode 3

The Ideal Gas Law (It's Not Ideal)

Episode 4

From the Ground Up: How Flying Works

Episode 5

From the Sky Down: How Falling Works

Episode 6

Myths of Orbital Motion

Episode 7

What's Inside Atoms?

Episode 8

The Truth Is In Here: The Science of Aliens

Episode 9

Misconceptions about Evolution

Episode 10

Nutrition's All About Youâ€"and Your Gut Biome

Episode 11

Humans Are Not Peas: Myths about Genetics

Episode 12

Getting Smarter about Intelligence

Episode 13

Exposing the Truth about Radiation

Episode 14

How Does Carbon-14 Dating Work?

Episode 15

How Statistics Can Lie to You

Episode 16

Does Thermodynamics Disprove Evolution?

Episode 17

How Relativity Is Misunderstood

Episode 18

E = mc2 and Other Relativity Myths

Episode 19

Why Do Black Holes Get Such a Bad Rap?

Episode 20

What Banged, and Was It Big?

Episode 21

Can You Go Faster Than Light?

Episode 22

Untangling How Quantum Mechanics Works

Episode 23

Untangling What Quantum Mechanics Means

Episode 24

Is There a Theory of Everything?