30 intellectually stimulating reading lessons with Cambridge-style multiple choice comprehension, vocabulary, and discussion.
Each lesson: rich reading passage → 8 vocabulary flip cards → 6 multiple choice questions (A–D) → discussion & timed writing task
Fascinating topics that challenge your reading at advanced level
Dreams, sleep paralysis, fatal insomnia, and why your brain is hyperactive while you rest.
Feral children and what they reveal about language acquisition and human development.
How fake treatments produce real results — and the ethics of placebo medicine.
Synesthesia — people who see music, taste words, and what it reveals about perception.
The Mariana Trench, bizarre creatures, and why we know more about the moon than our oceans.
Microexpressions, power poses, and how interrogators and poker players read people.
How false memories are created and why eyewitness testimony is unreliable.
Incredible survival stories and what makes some people survive the impossible.
Endangered languages, last speakers, and what is lost when a language disappears forever.
The gut-brain axis and how bacteria in your stomach influence your mood and decisions.
Flow states, time distortion under stress, and why childhood summers lasted forever.
Colour perception, linguistic relativity, and whether language shapes what we see.
The psychology of viral stories, moral panic, and how myths spread in the digital age.
Loneliness as a public health crisis worse than smoking, and the social media paradox.
Why 70% of people feel like frauds, gendered patterns, and what actually helps.
Profound texts that demand sophisticated reading and critical thinking
Personal identity, Parfit on psychological continuity, and what makes you "you".
Kahneman, anchoring, sunk costs, and why smart people make predictable mistakes.
Esperanto, Klingon, Tolkien's Elvish, and what makes a language "real".
Thomas Nagel on whether we should judge people by outcomes or intentions.
Chernobyl, Auschwitz, disaster selfies — why humans visit sites of suffering.
Fire, brain evolution, the raw food contradiction, and social eating.
Self-driving car ethics, MIT Moral Machine, and cultural moral differences.
Acoustic ecology, the last quiet places on Earth, and the health costs of noise.
Why almost-human robots disturb us, evolutionary explanations, and AI design.
Foucault, self-policing, CCTV nation, and social media as voluntary surveillance.
Planning beyond your lifetime — medieval cathedrals, the 10,000 Year Clock, Svalbard Vault.
Boredom as creative catalyst, Heidegger, the dopamine economy, and digital detox failures.
Untranslatable words, poetry translation, AI limits, and Walter Benjamin.
Halbwachs, monuments, selective memory, and truth and reconciliation.
Digital permanence, the EU ruling, reputation management, and the Streisand effect.