With an excerpt from Marshall McLuhan's Understanding media --
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks --
Suggested readings by Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, James Gleick, Daniel Keyes --
With an excerpt from Hayden White's Tropics of discourse --
Paul Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire --
Suggested reading by Calvin Clawson, Stan Gibilisco, Ian Stewart --
With an excerpt from Beowulf --
Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalent --
Suggested readings by Timothy Ferris, Kingfisher Publications, Scientific American --
With excerpts from Gary Zukav's The dancing Wu Li masters and H.G. Wells' The war of the worlds --
Suggested readings by Gordon Fraser, Brian Greene --
Suggested film by Joseph McMaster --
With an excerpt from Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The gulag archipelago --
Paolo Uccello's The battle of San Romano --
Suggested readings by James Gleick, Benoit Mandelbrot, John Briggs --
With an excerpt from Vincent Van Gogh's Dear Theo --
Raphael's Madonna del Granduca --
Suggested readings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Margaret Livingston, Jeanne Heifetz --
g With an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin --
John Sloan's The city from Greenwich Village --
Suggested readings by Martin Uman, Paul Horowitz & Winfield HIll, Robert Becker & Gary Selden --
With an excerpt from Daniel C. Dennett's Consciousness explained --
Gustav Klimt's The kiss --
Suggested readings by Helen Caldicott, Robert March --
With excerpts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" --
Leonardo Da Vinci's The last supper --
Suggested readings by Ian Stewart, Rudolf Arnheim, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, & Matthew Sands --
With an excerpt from Aristotle's The categories : on interpretation : prior analytics --
Piet Mondrian's Composition in color B. 1917 --
Suggested readings by Richard Friedberg, Albrecht Fölsing, Martin Gardner --
With an excerpt from William Faulkner's The sound and the fury --
Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Matisse --
Suggested readings by Roger Penrose, Albert László Barabási, Fritjof Capra --
With an excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh --
Pablo Picasso's The tragedy --
Suggested readings by I. Bernard Cohen & Richard Westfall, Sir Isacc Newton, T.L. Heath --
With an excerpt from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 --
Paul Gauguin's Vairumati --
Suggested readings by Bertrand Russell, David Lind & Scott Sanders, Sandor Nagyszalanczy, Robert Ehrlich --
With an excerpt from Ernest Becker's The denial of death --
Giotto's The lamentation --
Suggested readings by Steven Weinberg, Alan Lightman, John Archibald Wheeler --
With an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and other writings --
Georges de la Tour's The repentant Magdalen - Suggested readings by Ross Gelbspan, Gino Segré, Hans Christian Von Baeyer --
With excerpts from Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Woman, native, other and Edward O. Wilson's On human nature --
The falling cow panel by Unknown --
Suggested readings by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, & Brian Larkin, Michel Foucault, John Berger --
With an excerpt from The letters of Abelard and Heloise --
Marc Chagall's An angel --
Suggested readings by James Burke, Richard Feynman --
With an excerpt from Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld's The evolution of physics --
Michaelangelo Buonarroti's Pieta --
Suggested readings by Lewis Mumford, Max Jammer --
Suggested film by Macgillivray Freeman films --
With an excerpt from Mircea Eliade's "Time and eternity in Indian thought" --
Canaletto's The grand canal from Carità to Bacino di S. Marco --
Suggested readings by Alex Hebra, David Bourg, Lee Smolin, Barry Zimmerman & David Zimmerman --
With excerpts from Lewis Hyde's The gift and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America --
Panel with striding lion by Unknown --
Suggested readings by Noam Chomsky, Fritjof Capra --
With an excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged --
Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth symphony --
Suggested readings by John Gribbins, Lewis Thomas, Howard Zinn, Sir James Jeans --
With excerpts from Bruno Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment and Fritjof Capra's The web of life --
Mary Cassatt's The bath --
Suggested readings by Leïla Haddad & Alan Cirou, Andrew Mishkink, Adrian Malone --
With an excerpt from Marcel Proust's Swann's way --
Georges Seurat's A Sunday on la Grande Jatte --
Suggested readings by John Gribbin, Isaac Asimov, Toby E. Huff --
With excerpts from Pearl S. Buck's The good Earth and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman --
Alberto Giacometti's Walking man II --
Suggested readings by Dava Sobel, David Rumsey & Edith M. Punt --
With excerpts from John Berger's Ways of seeing and Niccolò Machiavelli's The prince --
Rogier Van Der Weyden's Portrait of a lady --
Suggested readings by Rodney Brooks, Richard Rhodes, Frank Barron, Alfonso Montuori, & Anthea Barros --
With an excerpt from Lewis Mumford's The city in history --
Katsushika Hokusai's The great wave at Kanagawa --
Suggested readings by Craig Hogan, Rachel Carson, Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Frédérifc Dumas --
With an excerpt from Albert Camus' The stranger --
Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening star no. VI --
Suggested readings by Nevil Shute, Erik Barnouw --
Suggested film by Daniel Goldberg --
With excerpts from Alice Miller's The drama of the gifted child and Sir James Jeans' Science & music --
Diego Velázquez's Las meinas --
Suggested readings by Walter Benjamin, Gary Waldman --
With an excerpt from Dylan Thomas' Under milk wood --
Annie Mae Young's Blocks and strips --
Suggested readings by Harald Falck-Yttr, Joseph Kasper & Steven Feller, John Alton --
With an excerpt from Pablo Picasso's "Picasso speaks" --
René Magritte's Two mysteries --
Suggested readings by Albert Einstein, George Gamow --
With an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's The prophet and Pablo Picasso's Les demoiselles d'Avignon --
Suggested readings by Janna Levin, Michio Kaku --
Suggested film by Harold Ramis --
With an excerpt from Antonio Carlo Jobim's Waters of March --
Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with crows --
Suggested readings by Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, Murrary Gell-Mann --
With excerpts from W.E.B. Du Bois' The souls of black folk and Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises --
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril --
Suggested readings by Henry Petroski, Thomas Kuhn, K.C. Cole --
With an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet --
Maurice Denis' The green trees or Beech trees in Kerduel --
Suggested readings by F. David Peat, Douglas Hofstadter --
With an excerpt from Homer's The odyssey --
Jacques-Louis David's The death of Marat --
Suggested reading by Julian Barbour, Henry Petroski, Steven Pinker --
With an excerpt from Clause Brown's Manchild in the promised land --
Robert Motherwell's No. 7 (from the Basque suit) --
Suggested readings by Edwin Abbott, Peter Hoffman --
Suggested film by Stacy Peralta --
With an excerpt from Dziga Vertov's Kino eye --
Jacob Lawrence's The migration of the Negro, panel 3 --
Suggested readings by Sir James Jeans, George Gamow --
Suggested film by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, & Joel Bakan --
38. Wave/particle duality --
With an excerpt from Gary Zukov's The dancing Wu Li masters --
Joan Miró's Une étoile caresse le sein d'une négresse (peinture-poème) --
Suggested readings by Roland Barthes, Ambrose Bierce, Lao Tzu --
With excerpts from John Ruskin's The lamp of beauty and Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists : volume 1 --
Emile Bernard's The buckwheat harvest --
Suggested readings by Studs Terkel, Charles Panati --