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Human Intelligence Episodes

  1. Teachers: Diogenes

    The irascible Greek thinker who lived in a barrel and argued for a simpler happier life.

  2. Teachers: Peter Ramus

    A radical teacher who believed passionately in knowledge and education for all.

  3. Teachers: Mary Somerville

    A remarkable 19th-century polymath inspired by the natural world and the universe beyond.

  4. Teachers: Maimonides

    The celebrated medieval philosopher who reconciled faith and reason.

  5. Teachers: Michael Faraday

    An obsessive, meticulous intellect that gave us the ideas behind world-changing technology

  6. Disruptors: Malcolm X

    The black nationalist thinker and voracious reader.

  7. Disruptors: Martin Luther

    The uncompromising intellect behind an explosive theology that split the Church forever.

  8. Disruptors: Mary Wollstonecraft

    The mind behind the first feminist manifesto.

  9. Disruptors: George Washington

    Voluntarily giving up immense power 鈥� the president with an extraordinary idea.

  10. Disruptors: Socrates

    The series kicks off with the founder of western philosophy as we know it.

  11. What Is Human Intelligence?

    Naomi Alderman looks at brilliant minds from the past.