The weirdest and most obscure online courses you can take

The future will be entirely devoted to biohacking. But before we have mass-produced technology to modify our DNA or adapt our bodies to cybernetic enhancements, you can biohack yourself in an analog way. A Coursera course for Biohacking Your Brain Health teaches you how to maximize your brain’s fitness through nutrition, exercise, meditation, and sleep.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe and all of its offshoots have brought comic book and superhero culture further than ever before; apparently even in universities and philosophy. In the edX course Power and responsibility: doing philosophy with superheroes, created by SmithsonianX and the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, you can study Spider-Man’s wrestling philosophical dilemmas with great power and great responsibility or Superman’s duty to stand up for truth and justice. (Photo by Daniel Fung / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images)

The clown is a noble vocation. In the Udemy course, Clown for fun and profit: learn the art of the clown, you will dive into the ancient art and history of the clown. You can choose a clown wig and outfit, find your clown personality, and learn how to make a living as a professional clown. It’s not just balloons and birthday parties, folks. (Colin McConnell / Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Become the master of your own skeletal secrets. In Coursera course Osteoarchaeology: the truth in our bones, you will learn how to examine the human skeleton to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past, from age to death, illnesses and injuries to bone clues that color a human’s habits.

Trekkies, rejoice: you can take a whole class follow-up Star trekthe pervasive influence of society. Star Trek: Inspiring Culture and Technology edX explores how the series’ many film and television incarnations have addressed topics such as race, gender, sexuality and ethics, and how they still shape our technology and our society.

For $ 12.99, you can learn how to hypnotize people. In this Udemy course, you will learn how to hypnotize with quick and instant inductions and get a crash course in the basics of hypnotherapy. Pocket watch not included.

If you just can’t seem to find the right words to ask someone special, you can pay $ 12.99 and a guy named Matt Artisan will tell you how. The Udemy course What to text a girl you like teaches you, well … I’ll let Matt’s description speak for itself:

“Steal my best text messages to GET THE DATE, SPARK ATTRACTION and Get The Girl … This step by step texting plan will teach you everything I know and show you exactly how to seduce her by texting.” But wait, there is more! You also get over 200 ‘proven texts’, from first dates to ‘re-engagement texts’ and ‘cliffhanger texts’. Now there is an offer you just can’t beat.

Offered by the University of Michigan via Coursera, Influencing people teaches you the art of building, developing and maintaining a “power base” in your organization. You will also learn influencing tactics that will allow you to be more persuasive and influential when working with your superiors, peers, and even your subordinates. If your dream is to be a ruthless CEO, then this course is for you. (Miguel Medina / AFP / Getty Images)

Just admit it: you wish you could talk to your cat or dog. It would make things a lot easier. Well in the Udemy course Communicate with your pet telepathically, you can learn to “use your natural intuition and psychic abilities to communicate with any species.” And only for $ 12.99? What a story. (Photo by Stéphane Cardinale – Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)

This course basically teaches you how to test your brain A / B. Offered by the University of Michigan via Coursera, Mindware: Critical Thinking in the Information Age teaches you how to use data, probability, and scientific methodology to improve your daily life, from the benefits of stepping out of a movie to flipping a coin to deciding if you have coffee today.

Do I really have to say more than the title? The Udemy course Activate the mighty fairy shamanism to shape the destiny of change draws on shamanic and witchcraft traditions to “rediscover their savage wisdom deep within yourself seeing the web of life that connects all living things, visible and invisible” and even teaches you to “conduct a proper ceremony in working respectfully with the fairy kingdoms ”. For $ 12.99 you can take a trip to a higher plane of consciousness.