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Bill Nye

Bill introduces himself and explains what members can expect from this class and how science can be used not only in our everyday lives, but also to solve big problems like climate change.

1. Meet Your Instructor

Meet Your Instructor

Discover how science gives you a new perspective, helps solve problems, and offers a more optimistic outlook on the future. Bill shares a story from his high school physics class and uses an augmented reality hologram to illustrate his point.

2. Science Changes Your Perspective

Science Changes Your Perspective

Bill details the importance of seemingly trivial information and how small things can lead to big ideas. He explains how a bee sting changed his life, the idea of learning objectives, and how discrepant events are opportunities for exploration.

3. Explore Everything All at Once

Explore Everything All at Once

Learn about the importance of evaluating claims with filters, testing hypotheses, and using critical thinking as Bill shares a ghost story and performs a surprising demonstration using different colors of light.

4. Practice Critical Thinking and Critical Filtering

Practice Critical Thinking and Critical Filtering

Bill explains how fear affects our thinking and how we can overcome it. He also covers xenophobia, reveals how politicians use scare tactics to control us, and shares a childhood story of a time he channeled his fear successfully.

5. Achieve Freedom From Fear

Achieve Freedom From Fear

Learn the value of being willing to seek out experts and being open to changing your mind. Bill explains the importance of words, and shares a device he helped design in his youth, which wouldn’t have been possible without help from machinists.

6. Everyone You’ll Ever Meet Knows Something You Don’t

Everyone You’ll Ever Meet Knows Something You Don’t

Using critical thinking skills, Bill breaks down the evidence of climate change and explains the science behind it. He talks about ice cores, greenhouse gases, and how the fossil fuel industry tries to downplay the danger.

7. Facing Climate Change: Our Greatest Challenge

Facing Climate Change: Our Greatest Challenge

Gain a handy mental tool that Bill uses to turn “nerd ideas into nerd action.” Go through each stage of the “Upside-Down Pyramid of Design” with Bill and learn how to make environmentally conscious choices along the way.

8. Using the Upside-Down Pyramid of Design to Make Things

Using the Upside-Down Pyramid of Design to Make Things

Embracing constraints can help you discover creative solutions. Bill walks you through a holographic box puzzle, explains the difference between the redundant safeties on a 747 and the Texas power grid, and performs a fun demonstration.

9. Celebrate the Joy of Constraints

Celebrate the Joy of Constraints

Bill takes on the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, explaining how each economic sector could improve. He covers transportation, electricity generation, industry, and agriculture—and even shares improvements members can implement at home.

10. Let’s Seek Scientific Solutions to Climate Change

Let’s Seek Scientific Solutions to Climate Change

Explore some of Bill’s big ideas (like carbon fees) for fighting climate change and creating a fairer, more science-minded society. Bill also talks about fighting inequality, and offers his idea of a mandatory national service requirement.

11. Foster a Science-minded Society

Foster a Science-minded Society

Recounting a personal tale about how his father’s love of sundials led to an achievement on Mars, Bill urges you to look to our planetary neighbors both as cautionary tales and as inspiration for the next generation of innovators.

12. Think Cosmically, Act Globally

Think Cosmically, Act Globally

In this bonus lesson, Bill teaches you how to tie five ancient knots, explaining why they are the perfect example of using science to improve your everyday life.

13. Bonus: How to Tie Ancient Knots

Bonus: How to Tie Ancient Knots

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