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Try Trials: Crash Course Kids #39.2
896 views / 0 likes - addedWe've talked about variables and solving problems. But how do we keep working on a problem if the first solution doesn't fix it? Trials! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to use Trials to figure out what the problems are with our
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Chemical Changes: Crash Course Kids #19.2
4,583 views / 7 likes - addedWe've talked about mixtures and solutions, solutes and solvents, but what about things that can't be undone? What about Chemical Changes? Would it surprise you to know that baking a cake is a Chemical Change? Or striking a match? In this episode of Crash
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Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #33
747 views / 0 likes - addedGet Help: If you think you have an eating disorder, please contact http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/ for help! You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we'r
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The Century of the Gene: Crash Course History of Science #42
334 views / 0 likes - addedWith the question What is life? addressed at the molecular level, humanity could finally cure all disease and live forever Except, not really. It turns out we're complicated.***Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http:
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Files & File Systems: Crash Course Computer Science #20
815 views / 0 likes - addedToday we’re going to look at how our computers read and interpret computer files. We’ll talk about how some popular file formats like txt, wave, and bitmap are encoded and decoded giving us pretty pictures and lifelike recordings from just strings of 1’s
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Game Design: Crash Course Games #19
776 views / 0 likes - addedGood game design is essential for a positive player experience whether it’s a board games, video game, or even dice game. So today, we’re going to take some time to give you an introductory overview of the process of creating a game, and talk about some o
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Hearing & Balance: Crash Course A&P #17
1,239 views / 0 likes - addedCrash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This mechanism not only h
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The Vikings! - Crash Course World History 224
1,311 views / 5 likes - addedIn which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash Course. So what's the deal with Vikings? Well, the stuff you've heard about them may not be true. The Vikings weren't just pa
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Compatibilism: Crash Course Philosophy #25
775 views / 0 likes - addedAs we continue explore free will, today Hank considers a middle ground between hard determinism and libertarian free will: compatibilism. This view seeks to find ways that our internally motivated actions can be understood as free in a deterministic world
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Immune System, Part 2: Crash Course A&P #46
1,049 views / 0 likes - addedIn the penultimate episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology, Hank explains your adaptive immune system. The adaptive immune system's humoral response guards extracellular terrain against pathogens. Hank also explains B cells, antibodies, and how vacci
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Monopolies And Anti-Competitive Markets: Crash Course Economics #25
1,218 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is a monopoly? It turns out, it's more than just a board game. It's a terrible, terrible economic practice in which giant corporations dominate markets and hurt consumers. Except when it isn't. In some industries, monopolies are the most efficient wa
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What Is Justice?: Crash Course Philosophy #40
916 views / 0 likes - addedIn today’s episode, Hank asks you to consider all the ways people talk about justice and what we really mean when we use that word. We’ll explain various theories of justice, just distribution, and different approaches to punishment. Want more Crash Cours
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Aggression V. Altruism: Crash Course Psychology #40
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The Growth of Knowledge: Crash Course Psychology #18
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Economic Schools Of Thought: Crash Course Economics #14
968 views / 0 likes - addedWe talk a lot about Keynesian economics on this show, pretty much because the real world currently runs on Keynesian principles. That said, there are some other economic ideas out there, and today we're going to talk about a few of them. So, if you've bee
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Succeed By Failing: Crash Course Kids #42.1
875 views / 0 likes - addedWe all know that failure is bad... but is it? Actually, Engineers need things to fail so they can understand how to make things better. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats to us about failure points and how they can help us find better sol
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Immune System, Part 3: Crash Course A&P #47
866 views / 0 likes - addedTHE FINAL SHOWDOWN! This is the last episode on the immune system and also the very last episode of Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology. In it, Hank explains how the cellular immune response uses helper, cytotoxic, and regulatory T cells to attack body cell
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The Global Carbon Cycle - Crash Course Chemistry #46
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Arguments Against Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #20
774 views / 0 likes - addedHow can Daenerys Targaryen help us understand personal identity? Find out as Hank continues our exploration of personal identity, learning about Hume’s bundle theory and Parfit’s theory of survival through psychological connectedness. Get your own Crash C
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The Nervous System, Part 2 - Action! Potential!: Crash Course A&P #9
1,155 views / 0 likes - added•••SUBBABLE MESSAGE••• TO: Carla FROM: Christopher Next stop is whenever. Just be like, "stop." *** You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if
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Personality Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #34
886 views / 1 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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Migration: Crash Course European History #29
399 views / 0 likes - addedBetween 1840 and 1914, an estimated 40 million people left Europe. This is one of the most significant migrations in human history. So, who was leaving Europe? And why? Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.pa
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Peripheral Nervous System: Crash Course A&P #12
1,542 views / 2 likes - addedIt is now time to meet the system that helps your crazy brain stay in touch with the outside world. We follow up last week's tour of the central nervous system with a look at your peripheral nervous system, its afferent and efferent divisions, how it proc
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Friction: Crash Course Physics #6
1,320 views / 2 likes - addedThis episode is sponsored by Audible. Try Audible: http://audible.com/crashcourse Why is it hard to move a heavy bookcase across a carpeted floor? And why is it easier to keep it moving than it was to get it started moving? You might think it's all about
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The Robot Challenge: Crash Course Kids #47.1
726 views / 0 likes - addedRobots! They're everywhere. We use them for all kinds of things that we can't, or don't want to do. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shares a problem with us that can probably be solved by building an awesome robot. So let's take the robot ch
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Input Devices: Crash Course Games #24
477 views / 0 likes - addedToday we’re going to talk about controllers. Controllers are incredibly important in the gaming experience because they are how we communicate actions within a game and often play a significant role in why we like or dislike certain games. And over the ye
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The Great Picnic Mix Up: Crash Course Kids #19.1
1,819 views / 1 likes - addedSo you know that iced tea you like so much? Or that sweet soda drink? They're actually a few different things combined to make a new thing. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about all the different mixtures, solutions, and ants that can
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Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History #1
747 views / 0 likes - addedWell, they're not really "magic." Maybe "illusion" is a better way to say it. As we begin this journey of the history of cinema, we need to understand how movies trick our brains into even understanding that a movie is a movie. In this episode of Crash Co
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Down To Earth: Crash Course Kids #4.2
1,635 views / 0 likes - addedIn this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about why things on the bottom of the Earth, don't just fall off into space. Plus... PENGUINS! This first series is based on 5th grade science. We're super excited and hope you enjoy Crash Course Kids! /
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Here Comes The Sun: Crash Course Kids #5.1
2,013 views / 7 likes - addedUpdated with fix. Thanks for pointing that out!!! :) Every hear of "Sol"? Sure you have! It's our Sun! It sits at the center of our 8 planet solar system, providing us with heat and light. But how does that energy get to us? In this episode of Crash Cours
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International IP Law: Crash Course Intellectual Property #6
750 views / 0 likes - addedThis week, Stan Muller teaches you how intellectual property law functions internationally. Like, between countries. Well, guess what. There's kind of no such thing as international law. But we can talk about treaties. There are a bevy of international tr
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Water Fix!: Crash Course Kids #36.2
1,084 views / 3 likes - addedHow can we fix water shortages? Well, we know that shortages are a problem and can cause fighting because water is a resource. When you limit a resource, things get scary. But, in this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about ways that we can hel
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What's An Engineer? Crash Course Kids #12.1
1,412 views / 3 likes - addedYou've heard of Engineers, I'm sure. But, what are Engineers? Well, it turns out that they're all kinds of people doing all kinds of neat work! Want to be one? Well, join Sabrina in this episode of Crash Course Kids where she talks about what they do and
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World Cinema - Part 1: Crash Course Film History #14
733 views / 0 likes - addedThe world is a big place and cinema isn't limited to just the U.S. and Europe. There are a lot of vibrant and influential film movements and cultures from all over the world. In this episode of Crash Course Film History, Craig talks to us a little about s
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Space Compilation: Crash Course Kids
1,009 views / 0 likes - addedMaybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. Thus, we've created our Compilation Series. In this video, we look at some of our videos about Space. Sabrina talks to us about the Sun, stars, the universe, and how constellations
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Feed Me: Classifying Organisms - Crash Course Kids #1.2
2,067 views / 5 likes - addedFEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first series is based on
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How to Train a Brain - Crash Course Psychology #11
1,124 views / 0 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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Price Controls, Subsidies, And The Risks Of Good Intentions: Crash Course Economics #20
807 views / 0 likes - addedSo, during times of inflation or deflation, why doesn't the government just set prices? It sounds reasonable, but price ceilings or floors just don't work. Adriene and Jacob explain why. Subsidies, however, are a little different, and sometimes they even
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The Raft, The River, And The Weird Ending Of Huckleberry Finn: Crash Course Literature 303
566 views / 0 likes - addedThis week, we're continuing our discussion of Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' This is part two of our talk about Huck Finn, and this time we're looking at the metaphors in the book, a little bit about what the metaphors like the Island
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The Silent Era: Crash Course Film History #9
631 views / 0 likes - addedThe Silent Era of Hollywood set a lot of things into motion in terms of how movies were made and sold. Big stars were one of the main ways studios tried to make their movies stand apart from one another and get the public to make choices at the cinema. Bu
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PC Gaming: Crash Course Games #20
708 views / 1 likes - addedToday, we're FINALLY going to talk about PC Gaming. So the personal computer is the precursor to the console, but it's not quite accurate to say that it just led to the console. PCs and the video games created on them have and continue to influence the re
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Citizen Kane: Crash Course Film Criticism #1
567 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/crashcourse and use the promo code "crashcourse" to get the first two months free! Is Citizen Kane the BEST MOVIE EVER MADE? Is that even an answerable question? Michael Aranda will try to help us thro
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How YouTube knows what you should watch: Crash Course AI #15
452 views / 0 likes - addedSubscribe to Sound Field! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Today were going to talk about recommender systems which form the backbone of so much of the content we see online from video recommendations on YouTube and Netflix to ads
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Ford, Cars, and a New Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #28
448 views / 0 likes - addedHistorians love to debate each other. So some of them pointed out that the first half of this revolution looks a lot different from the second. Let's chat about industry, cars, and Henry Ford.***Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by s
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Genetics and The Modern Synthesis: Crash Course History of Science #35
308 views / 0 likes - addedRemember how Darwin and Mendel lived around the same time, but everyone forgot about Mendel until 1900, and even then biologists saw Darwinism and Mendelism as two competing grand theories about how life works?Well, in this episode of Crash Course History
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Robotics: Crash Course AI #11
344 views / 0 likes - addedRobots arent like humans who can do a lot of different things. Theyre designed for very specific tasks like vacuuming our homes, assembling cars in a factory, or exploring the surface of other planets. So even though it may be a while before we have a gen
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Genetics - Lost and Found: Crash Course History of Science #25
791 views / 0 likes - addedSometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their Abbey. This is the story of Gregor Mendel and how his work was done, lost, then found again. ***Crash Course i
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Architecture Adventure: Crash Course Kids #47.2
1,016 views / 3 likes - addedIf we want to build a place for us to live, or to hang out, or do eat dinner with our friends, we're going to need a special kind of engineering called architecture. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina gets us to help her build a place where she
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What's All The Yellen About? Monetary Policy And The Federal Reserve: Crash Course Economics #10
763 views / 0 likes - addedThis week on Crash Course Economics, we're talking about monetary policy. The reality of the world is that the United States (and most of the world's economies) are, to varying degrees, Keynesian. When things go wrong, economically, the central bank of th
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Astronaut Experiment: Crash Course Kids #32.2
726 views / 2 likes - addedAir resistance! It's a thing! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina does her own Astronaut Experiment to show us how we can prove it! Watch More Crash Course Kids: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids ///Standards Used in This Video/// 5-P
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Batman & Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #18
947 views / 1 likes - addedHank explores different ways of understanding identity – including the Indiscernibility of Identicals, and essential and accidental properties. In what ways does affect identity? In what ways does it not? What does it mean for a thing to persist over time
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What Is Myth? Crash Course Mythology #1
979 views / 4 likes - addedWelcome to Crash Course World Mythology, our latest adventure (and this series may be literally adventurous) in education. Over the next 40 episodes or so, we and Mike Rugnetta are going to learn about the world by looking at the foundational stories of a
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Psychology of Computing: Crash Course Computer Science #38
651 views / 0 likes - addedWe’ve spent most of this series talking about computers. Which makes sense - this is Crash Course COMPUTER SCIENCE after all. But at their core computers are tools employed by humans and humans are pretty complicated. So today, we’re going to discuss some
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Testing And Trials: Crash Course Kids #44.2
872 views / 1 likes - addedMore trials! This time we need to figure out what to do if you don't have all the things you'd like to have to perform your tests. How do you isolate a variable across multiple tests? A good engineer will work to find a way to make it happen. In this epis
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The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #21
413 views / 0 likes - addedYou probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth century: Trains connected cities, symbolizing progress. But they also brought about the destruction of rural lands, divisions between social classes, and rapid urbanization. But th
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Supervised Machine Learning: Crash Course Statistics #36
391 views / 0 likes - addedWe've talked a lot about modeling data and making inferences about it, but today we're going to look towards the future at how machine learning is being used to build models to predict future outcomes. We'll discuss three popular types of supervised machi
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Fixing Failure Points: Crash Course Kids #42.2
742 views / 0 likes - addedNow that we've talked about failure points, let's talk about how to fix them. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to set up models and trails to find and fix failure points. Watch More Crash Course Kids: https://www.youtube.com/user
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The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29
1,434 views / 3 likes - addedIn which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution
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Newton and Leibniz: Crash Course History of Science #17
385 views / 1 likes - addedThe standard story of the Scientific Revolution culminates with the long life of one man: Sir Isaac Newtona humble servant of the Royal Mint, two-time parliamentarian, and a scientific titan whose name, along with Einsteins, is synonymous with physics tod
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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Crash Course AI #1
290 views / 0 likes - addedArtificial intelligence is everywhere and it's already making a huge impact on our lives. It's autocompleting texts on our cellphones, telling us which videos to watch on YouTube, beating us at video games, recognizing us in photos, ordering products in s
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Unsupervised Learning: Crash Course AI #6
321 views / 0 likes - addedFor more information go tohttps://wix.com/go/CRASHCOURSEToday, were moving on from artificial intelligence that needs training labels, called Supervised Learning, to Unsupervised Learning which is learning by finding patterns in the world. Well focus on t
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Tissues, Part 1: Crash Course A&P #2
895 views / 0 likes - added•••SUBBABLE MESSAGE••• TO: Jordan Schoonover FROM: Mom, Dad&Madison Happy Birthday Jordan! We love you sweetheart!! *** You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything w
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The History of Game Shows: Crash Course Games #25
498 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to talk about game shows! Game shows have a long history going all the way back to the 1920s on the radio and then proliferating across media to the massive pop culture icons they are today. And they're different from most game genres we
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Personal Identity: Crash Course Philosophy #19
873 views / 0 likes - addedToday Hank is building on last week’s exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your consciousness? There are, of course, strengths and weaknesses to both of these ideas, and
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Endocrine System, Part 2 - Hormone Cascades: Crash Course A&P #24
900 views / 0 likes - addedIn the second half of our look at the endocrine system, Hank discusses chemical homeostasis and hormone cascades. Specifically, he looks at the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis, or HPT axis, and all the ways your body can suffer when that system, or yo
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Matter Compilation: Crash Course Kids
5,652 views / 15 likes - addedMaybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about Matter. What is matter? What are particles? And why is this important to know? Did you know that coal can turn into diamonds? Or that so
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Controversy of Intelligence: Crash Course Psychology #23
1,004 views / 0 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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Resources: Welcome To The Neighborhood - Crash Course Kids #2.1
1,656 views / 8 likes - addedWelcome to the Neighborhood! Humans need a lot of things to survive (I'm sure you've noticed). We need food, water, and shelter and it takes a lot of resources to get all of those things. What are resources? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina t
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Engineering Games: Crash Course Kids #29.2
2,123 views / 7 likes - addedSo how can a game teach us about engineering? Pretty easily! When you're trying to solve a game, or a puzzle, or whatever, you will have a bunch of variables. The trick is knowing how to change one variable at a time to see what changes. In this episode o
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Ecology: Crash Course History of Science #38
346 views / 0 likes - addedWeve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even the sciences of outer space. Now its time to put these disciplines together. It's Ecology time!!!***Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://w
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The New Astronomy: Crash Course History of Science #13
335 views / 0 likes - addedThis week on Crash Course: History of the Scientific Revolutionastronomical anomalies accrued. Meanwhile, in Denmarkan eccentric rich dude constructed not one but two science castles! And his humble German assistant synthesized a lot of new, old, and bold
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Invisible Man: Crash Course Literature 308
599 views / 2 likes - addedThis week, we’re on to reading Ralph Ellison’s great novel about the black experience in America after World War II, Invisible Man. John will teach you about Ellison’s nameless narrator, and his attempts to find his way in a social order that dehumanizes
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Frankenstein Part II: Crash Course Literature 206
677 views / 0 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing th
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Defining A Problem: Crash Course Kids #18.1
1,505 views / 0 likes - addedSo, how do engineers even figure out what problem needs to get fixed? And what's the difference between identifying a problem and just complaining about something. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how we can all be better Engineer
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Bowled Over - Isolating Variables: Crash Course Kids #39.1
777 views / 0 likes - addedSo, variables. There are lots of them when trying to test an idea. The trick is to isolate one variable at a time to get reliable results every time. But, how do we do that? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to isolate variables a
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How Words Can Harm: Crash Course Philosophy #28
717 views / 0 likes - addedContent warning: today’s episode contains language that some viewers might find upsetting and that may not be viewable in all settings. We’ve talking about how language works and how powerful it can be. Sometimes, that power can be harmful. Today, Hank ex
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Part 1: Crash Course Literature #302
530 views / 1 likes - addedIn which John Green teaches you about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This week, we'll talk a little bit about Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who wrote under the name Mark Twain, and how he mined his early life for decades to produce his prett
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Engineering Compilation: Crash Course Kids
747 views / 0 likes - addedMaybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. Thus, we've created our Compilation Series. In this first (and longest) compilation video, we look at some of our videos about Engineering. Sabrina helps us to understand how engine
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Gravity Compilation: Crash Course Kids
988 views / 2 likes - addedMaybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about Gravity. We'll learn about why we don't fly off into space, what mass has to do with it, how does air resistance work, and why gravity i
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Globalization And Trade And Poverty: Crash Course Economics #16
1,001 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is globalization? Is globalization a good thing or not. Well, I have an answer that may not surprise you: It's complicated. This week, Jacob and Adriene will argue that globalization is, in aggregate, good. Free trade and globalization tend to provid
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What is an Animal? Crash Course Zoology #1
209 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out Animal IQ on PBS Terra! https://youtu.be/Ejhbr_t7BlcSo what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, well endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, its complicated! But before we get there well need to i
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Non-Human Animals: Crash Course Philosophy #42
617 views / 0 likes - addedToday we are taking all the things we have learned this year about doing philosophy and applying that to moral considerations regarding non-human animals. We’ll explore what philosophers like Peter Singer and Carl Cohen have to say about their use, includ
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Over (to) The Moon: Crash Course Kids #13.2
1,039 views / 1 likes - addedSabrina gets a new set in this episode of Crash Course Kids. Do you want to be an astronaut? Would you like to someday walk on the moon? Well, you better learn a little about gravity so you can escape from Earth and head into space. Today, Sabrina chats w
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Motion In A Straight Line: Crash Course Physics #1
1,696 views / 1 likes - addedIn this, THE FIRST EPISODE of Crash Course Physics, your host Dr. Shini Somara introduces us to the ideas of motion in a straight line. She talks about displacement, acceleration, time, velocity, and the definition of acceleration. Also, how does a physic
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Trauma&Addiction: Crash Course Psychology #31
673 views / 0 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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How Computers Calculate - the ALU: Crash Course Computer Science #5
720 views / 0 likes - addedTake the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers. The thing that basically everything else uses - the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (or the ALU). The ALU
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The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History #32
2,207 views / 0 likes - addedYou can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing th
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Life and Longevity: Crash Course History of Science #44
314 views / 0 likes - addedIt's time to have a look at the future of human life and how technology could possibly extend longevity. But, within that tech, are questions of ethics that are not always at the top of mind when the tech is being developed. In this episode, Hank sits dow
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Bodies and Dollars: Crash Course History of Science #41
358 views / 0 likes - addedAfter World War Two, the applications of basic discoveries in biology took offand became big business. Today, well look at the rise of Big Pharma and GMO foods. Well also discuss how life-science technologies fundamentally changed reproduction: its time t
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Political Campaigns: Crash Course Government And Politics #39
560 views / 0 likes - addedSo political campaigns are a pretty big deal in the United States. For instance the 2012 presidential election clocked in at the most expensive ever - at around $6 billion dollars! Needless to say, money plays a very big role in American elections. So tod
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The Atomic Bomb: Crash Course History of Science #33
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Why Human Ancestry Matters: Crash Course Big History 205
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Web Search: Crash Course AI #17
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Chi-Square Tests: Crash Course Statistics #29
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The Impacts of Social Class: Crash Course Sociology #25
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LARP: Crash Course Games #26
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Training Neural Networks: Crash Course AI #4
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Studying for Exams: Crash Course Study Skills #7
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3D Graphics: Crash Course Computer Science #27
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Contractarianism: Crash Course Philosophy #37
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Unsupervised Machine Learning: Crash Course Statistics #37
333 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to discuss how machine learning can be used to group and label information even if those labels don't exist. We'll explore two types of clustering used in Unsupervised Machine Learning: k-means and Hierarchical clustering, and show how t
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Reinforcement Learning: Crash Course AI#9
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Supervised Learning: Crash Course AI #2
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Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18
283 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out my collab with "Above the Noise" about Deepfakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8b69VeL9UToday, we're going to talk about five common types of algorithmic bias we should pay attention to: data that reflects existing biases, unbalanced classe
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Congressional Decisions: Crash Course Government and Politics #10
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Aesthetic Appreciation: Crash Course Philosophy #30
788 views / 0 likes - addedToday we are talking about art and aesthetic appreciation. What makes something an artwork? Can art really be defined? Is aesthetic value is objective or subjective? Can taste be developed? How? Get your own Crash Course Philosophy mug or Chom Chom shirt
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MMORPGs - Crash Course Games #12
614 views / 0 likes - addedSo we ended the last episode with casual gaming and a more connected gaming community, but these connected communities started much before smartphones and Facebook. Today, we’re going to talk about MMORPGs - or Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Ga
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Cybersecurity: Crash Course Computer Science #31
669 views / 0 likes - addedCybersecurity is a set of techniques to protect the secrecy, integrity, and availability of computer systems and data against threats. In today’s episode, we’re going to unpack these three goals and talk through some strategies we use like passwords, biom
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Grip and Electric: Crash Course Film Production #10
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Introduction: Crash Course U.S. Government and Politics
820 views / 0 likes - addedIn which Craig Benzine introduces a brand new Crash Course about U.S. Government and Politics! This course will provide you with an overview of how the government of the United States is supposed to function, and we'll get into how it actually does functi
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Bayes in Science and Everyday Life: Crash Course Statistics #25
371 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to finish up our discussion of Bayesian inference by showing you how we can it be used for continuous data sets and be applied both in science and everyday life. From A/B testing of websites and getting a better understanding of psycholo
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Intro to Big Data: Crash Course Statistics #38
412 views / 0 likes - addedToday, we're going to begin our discussion of Big Data. Everything from which videos we click (and how long we watch them) on YouTube to our likes on Facebook say a lot about us - and increasingly more and more sophisticated algorithms are being designed
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Interest Groups: Crash Course Government And Politics #42
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Natural Language Processing: Crash Course AI #7
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Hunting For Properties: Crash Course Kids #9.1
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Liquids: Crash Course Chemistry #26
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Controlling Bureaucracies: Crash Course Government And Politics #17
650 views / 0 likes - addedIn which Craig Benzine tells you how we keep bureaucracy in check. So we've spent the last few episodes telling you all about what bureaucracies are and why they are formed. And throughout we've hinted about this ever-expanding power within the executive
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Vegetation Transformation: Crash Course Kids #5.2
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Mythical Mountains: Crash Course World Mythology #33
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