A THEMAS Course

Resources


Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Books  
Quill
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
Leonardo Da Vinci
Books  

The Order of Time
Books  
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design
Books  
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
Books  

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
Books  
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Books  
The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
Books  

A Little History of the World
Books  
Google Arts & Culture
Sites  
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
Books  

The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
Books  
3Blue1Brown
Courses, Tutorials, Video  
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us
Books  

The Design of Everyday Things
Books  
Flipboard
Sites  
Very Short Introductions
Books  

Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook
Books, Tutorials  
Loeb Classical Library
Books, Sites  
Byrne’s Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
Books, Interactive  

The Book of Shaders
Courses, Interactive, Tools/Tutorials  
Domain of Science: Maps
Courses, Video  
4D Toys
Interactive  

Botnik
Interactive  
An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
Interactive, Tutorials  
Softology
Blogs  

Tensor Flow
Tools/Tutorials  
Non-Euclidean Worlds Rendering Engine
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
Magic Leap
Tools/Tutorials, VR  

A People’s History of the United States
Books  
Evolution
Interactive  
The Complete Cosmicomics
Books  

GeoGebra AR
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
Online Math Tools
Interactive, Tutorials  
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity
Books  

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Books  
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Books  
The Bow and the Lyre
Books  

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World
Books  
Mythologies
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Books  

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Books  
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
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The Muse Learns to Write
Books  

On Becoming a Person
Books  
Symposium
Audio, Books  
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Books  

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Books  
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Books  
Raw Graphs
Interactive, Tutorials  

The Road to Reality
Books  
Four Laws That Drive the Universe
Books  
The Equations: Icons of Knowledge
Books  

MACROHISTORY : WORLDHISTORY
Sites  
Nature of Code Tutorials
Tools/Tutorials  
Lorenz Attractor
Tools/Tutorials  

Reaction Diffusion Tutorials
Tools/Tutorials  
P5 Tutorials
Tools/Tutorials  
Processing Tutorials
Tools/Tutorials  

Poetry of the Universe
Books  
GeoGebra
Tools/Tutorials  
CaRMetal
Tools/Tutorials  

LEARN CREATIVE CODE
Courses  
Nature of Code
Books  
brackets.io
Tools/Tutorials  

D3.js
Tools/Tutorials  
p5.js
Tools/Tutorials  
Complexity Explorer
Courses  

A New Kind of Science
Books  
Encyclopedia Hermetica: A Big History
Video  
The Decline of the West
Books  

Gödel, Escher, Bach
Books  
Finite and Infinite Games
Books  
The Great Courses
Courses, Video  

The Blind Watchmaker
Books  
The New Media Reader
Books  
The Republic
Books  

Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Books  
The Machinery of Life
Books  
Life’s Ratchet
Books  

The Symposium
Books  
RSA ANIMATE
Courses, Video  
Steam VR
Tools/Tutorials, VR  

Kadenze
Courses  
ChucK
Tools/Tutorials  
Mesh Mixer
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  

Structure Synth
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  
Nicomachean Ethics
Books  
Google Daydream
Tools/Tutorials, VR  

Google Cardboard
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
NETFABB
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  
Sketchfab
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials, VR  

MeshLab
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  
Oculus Rift
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
HTC VIVE
Tools/Tutorials, VR  

Unreal Engine
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
SketchUp
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  
vvvv
Tools/Tutorials  

Make
Courses, Sites  
Instructables
Courses, Sites  
We Make Money Not Art
Blogs  

99% Invisible
Audio, Podcasts  
Brain Pickings
Blogs  
TechCrunch
Blogs  

Understanding Media
Books  
Reality Is Not What It Seems
Books  
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Books  

Wait But Why
Blogs  
edX
Courses  
Wolfram Demonstrations
Tools/Tutorials  

Open Yale Courses
Courses  
MIT OpenCourseWare
Courses  
Edge
Sites  

Kurzweil AI
Blogs, Sites  
Long Now Foundation
Courses  
Big Think
Video  

How Stuff Works
Sites  
Smarter Every Day
Video  
School of Life
Courses, Video  

THE CURRICULUM – Part 2
Courses, Video  
THE CURRICULUM – Part 1
Courses, Video  
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sites  

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sites  
Logeion
Sites  
THEOI Greek Mythology
Sites  

LOEB Classical Library
Sites  
Coursera
Courses, Video  
Khan Academy
Courses, Video  

TED Talks
Video  
Intelligence Squared
Audio, Podcasts  
Partially Examined Life
Audio, Podcasts  

Imaginary Worlds
Audio, Podcasts  
The History of Philosophy without any gaps
Audio, Podcasts  
Archive.org
Audio, Sites, Video  

Audible
Audio  
Open Culture
Blogs, Sites  
LibriVox
Audio  

Arduino
Tools/Tutorials  
Wolfram Alpha
Tools/Tutorials  
Mathematica
Tools/Tutorials  

Audacity
Tools/Tutorials  
Gibber
Tools/Tutorials  
Blender
3D/Fab, Tools/Tutorials  

Unity 3D
Tools/Tutorials, VR  
Max MSP Jitter
Tools/Tutorials  
Processing
Tools/Tutorials