What's a virus?
This is eighty-first lesson of our Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn how we figured out that viruses even existed, what one of them in particular looks and feels like, and the strange story of what, precisely, it does.
Creature feature!
This is eighty-second lesson of our Big Course... and it's a format we don't get to do enough. Instead of a single riddle, you'll get to fill in a veritable "Guinness Book" of viruses; the biggest, the smallest, the jackalope-i-est, the most horrible, and the best at hide-and-seek.
What's the secret of viruses?
This is eighty-third lesson of our Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn how evolution REALLY works, feel what the virus that causes COVID-19 actually turns out to be like, and hear the story of the pandemic... from the virus's perspective.
(Oh, in the afterparty, you'll also see a method for cutting to the core of a debate... when we take on what might have been the biggest controversy of the COVID years.)
What would it take to stop our suffering?
This is eighty-fourth lesson of our Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn what a vaccine actually is (possibly not what you think?), what antibody therapy is, and what might be the single most exciting technology in medical science.
(Ah, and also the fundamental dogma of molecular biology. That's cool, too — for the rest of your life, you'll UNDERSTAND CELLS.)
How can YOU avoid getting sick?
This is eighty-fifth lesson of our Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn how much you should care, what actually makes you "sick" in the first place, and quite a lot about the "big three" viruses that most routinely make us miserable — how they spread, what their genius is, and how we can end them.
