Finance & Investing

A sweeping journey through human civilization from the earliest societies to the modern world. This curriculum explores the forces that shaped empires, revolutions, and cultural transformations across every inhabited continent. Students will develop the analytical skills to interpret primary sources, recognize historical patterns, and understand how the past continues to shape contemporary politics, economics, and culture.

A working understanding of blockchain and Web3 — what these systems actually are, why they were built, and how the pieces (wallets, consensus, smart contracts, tokens, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs) fit together. The trunk gives you the orientation to follow any crypto conversation; clusters dive into cryptography, custody, consensus, smart-contract engineering, DeFi mechanics, NFTs/DAOs, and building dApps.

A working understanding of probability and statistics — how to reason under uncertainty, turn data into claims, and recognize when those claims are honest. The trunk gives you the core vocabulary and the inference pipeline; clusters dive into Bayesian reasoning, frequentist theory, regression, stochastic processes, and experimental design.

A working understanding of how music is built — the twelve-note system, intervals, scales, keys, chords, harmony, rhythm, and form. The trunk gives you the complete map from a single note to a finished song; clusters dive deep into modes, the circle of fifths, chord construction, progressions, rhythm, melody, and form.

A non-technical curriculum that builds real understanding of AI — how it works, why it fails, and how to use it intelligently. No math, no code, just durable mental models that make you a confident, critical user of AI tools.

A working understanding of how the brain actually works at the level of mechanism — neurons firing, chemicals crossing synapses, regions specializing, circuits adapting. The trunk takes you from a single cell's electrical signal up through brain anatomy, sensation, movement, plasticity, memory, sleep, and emotion; clusters dive into molecular signaling, the neurochemical systems, sensory neuroscience, plasticity and repair, the cognitive brain, the diseased brain, and the tools that let us see any of it.