How similar are bird senses to human senses? How did anatomical and behavioral studies work together to give evidence of exotic bird senses, including echolocation? Why was it so difficult for people to accept that birds have significant senses of taste and smell? In this session of this class, we will address vision and hearing (a separate session is devoted to smell, taste, and magnetic sense). Come learn about the fascinating world of birds!

How similar are bird senses to human senses? How did anatomical and behavioral studies work together to give evidence of exotic bird senses, including echolocation? Why was it so difficult for people to accept that birds have significant senses of taste and smell? In this session of this class, we will address smell, taste, and magnetic sense (a separate session is devoted to vision and hearing). Come learn about the fascinating world of birds!

Come learn a few basics of birdwatching and how to identify backyard and other common birds! Also watch some funny bird videos for cool facts. We will then go outside, weather permitting, to search for the common birds around MIT. Designed for students with no prior experience with birds, but an enthusiasm to learn. For students also interested in how birds perceive the world, please see the Bird Senses listings :)

How similar are bird senses to human senses? How did anatomical and behavioral studies work together to give evidence of exotic bird senses, including echolocation? Why was it so difficult for people to accept that birds have significant senses of taste and smell? In this session of this class, we will address vision and hearing (a separate session is devoted to smell, taste, and magnetic sense). Come learn about the fascinating world of birds!

How similar are bird senses to human senses? How did anatomical and behavioral studies work together to give evidence of exotic bird senses, including echolocation? Why was it so difficult for people to accept that birds have significant senses of taste and smell? In this session of this class, we will address smell, taste, and magnetic sense (a separate session is devoted to vision and hearing). Come learn about the fascinating world of birds!

Come learn a few basics of birdwatching and how to identify backyard and other common birds! We will then go outside, weather permitting, to search for the common birds around MIT. Designed for students with no prior experience with birds, but an enthusiasm to learn. For more experienced students who would like to learn about more detailed bird topics, please see the class "Ornithology".

How do other animals sense and perceive the world? When we ask this question, we automatically think in terms of our own experiences, sometimes assuming a sense is not important just because it isn't used in the way humans use it. Birds in particular, because they share our well-developed visual systems, are in danger of this comparison. But just how similar are bird senses to human senses? How did anatomical and behavioral studies work together to give evidence of exotic bird senses, including echolocation? Why was it so difficult for people to accept that birds have significant senses of taste and smell? In the first session of this class, we will address vision and hearing. The second session will cover smell, taste, and magnetic sense. Come learn about the fascinating world of birds!

Have you ever wanted to know how the 1918 flu spread so quickly, why some viruses make you sick immediately while others surface only after weeks or months, and why the creation of a mutant virus that can spread from ferret to ferret has public health and national security officials worried? Come learn the science of diseases!

Come learn a few basics of birdwatching and how to identify backyard and other common birds! We will then go outside, weather permitting, to search for the common birds around MIT. Designed for students with no prior experience with birds, but an enthusiasm to learn. For more experienced students who would like to learn about more detailed bird topics, please see the class "Ornithology".

Ornithology: The study of birds! For students who are interested in learning about bird flight, physiology, taxonomy, and identification beyond your common backyard bird. Topics can vary based on class interest. For students interested in learning about birds at a more basic level, please see the class "Bird Basics".

Learn about the basic unit of your nervous system: the neuron! How do these cells send signals over long distances? What is the chemical basis behind these signals? This class is designed to introduce students to the basic structure of a neuron and mechanism behind the action potential.

Ever get sick and wonder what is going on inside your body and why you feel like canine feces? Well come take our class and you will find out all about the different pathogens that make you sick! You will walk away looking at this world and the coughing people around you differently.

Come learn a few basics of birdwatching and how to identify backyard and other common birds! We will practice outside, weather permitting, to search for the common birds around MIT. Binoculars will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you have them.

Have you ever wanted to know how the 1918 flu spread so quickly, why some viruses make you sick immediately while others surface only after weeks or months, and why the creation of a mutant virus that can spread from ferret to ferret has public health and national security officials worried? Learn all of this and more - (non disease causing) treats provided! Taught by MIT Team HBV.

Have you ever wanted to know how the 1918 flu spread so quickly, why some viruses make you sick immediately while others surface only after weeks or months, and why the creation of a mutant virus that can spread from ferret to ferret has public health and national security officials worried? Learn all of this and more - (non disease causing) treats provided! Taught by MIT Team HBV.

Come learn a few basics of birdwatching and how to identify backyard and other common birds! We will then go outside, weather permitting, to search for the common birds around MIT. If there is time and interest, we'll return to the classroom to learn about bird physiology, flight, fun facts, and more.

You have questions? We have answers. Come ask us ANYTHING you want about biology! How can we sequence DNA? What makes slime molds awesome? How does the immune system work? Why don't antibiotics poison humans? How do Venus flytraps do that? Why don't all mutations cause cancer? What is selenocysteine? How could evolution produce life as we know it?