What's water?
This is the sixth official lesson of our 180-lesson Big Course (even if it's just the first lesson of water). Along the way to the answer, you'll learn where our ideas of "elements" and "atoms" originally came from, the real shape of hydrogen and oxygen, and the single, dangerous experiment that proved that water is way weirder than anyone had thought.
Oh - you'll also learn a couple ways to actually envision the size of molecules.
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Why is water wet?
This is the seventh official lesson of our 180-lesson Big Course. Along the path to the answer, you'll learn what we mean when we say something is "wet", why scientists applied the word "atom" a bit too hastily, and what these things called "bonds" really are.
Oh - you'll also begin to learn a new way (really, four new ways) to imagine reality. (Not bad, for an 80-ish-minute lesson!)
How does a towel work?
This is the eight official lesson of our 180-lesson Big Course. Along the path to the answer, you'll learn why water sticks to a towel (but not to you), how weak these "bonds" really are, and how a towel dries itself.
Oh - you'll also begin to learn something profound about literally everything in your home.
What does every snowflake have in common?
This is the ninth official lesson in our 180-lesson Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn what snowflakes actually look like, the scientific way to measure temperature, and what's in your mouth right now.
What can you read in every snowflake?
This is the tenth - tenth! - official lesson of our 180-lesson Big Course. Along the way to the answer, you'll learn about design (or "design"?) in nature, what a newborn snowflake looks like, and why every snowflake is unique.
You'll also stumble on a big debate - we'll ask the question: "did a god do it?"
Where did our water come from?
This ISN'T an official lesson; this is the SECRET SIXTH lesson! It's more disjointed and what-have-you than our regular ones... but along the way to the answer, you'll learn why you should be careful with a time machine, what the baby solar system looked like, and the invisible dotted line that explains SO MUCH about the planets.
You'll also - if you watch to the bitter end - solve a murder mystery by learning something that you're not SUPPOSED to learn until "Nuclear Power", which is like four years from now.
