Crash Course Kids
How to find themes (A Wrinkle in Time): Crash Course Kids Literature #3
New ReviewWhere do you find a theme? Deep in the characters, under the setting, entwined in the plot? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we travel through the universe with the characters in “A Wrinkle in Time” to discover its...
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Symbolism, Realism, and a Nordic Playwright Grudge Match: Crash Course Theater #33
It's a Scandinavian grudge match on Crash Course Theater. We're looking at a couple of the key movements in European theater that deeply influenced the modern theater of today. We'll take a close look at two of the most radical and...
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Broadway Book Musicals: Crash Course Theater #50
This is it! We're going out with a singing, dancing look at the Broadway Book Musical. Oklahoma! On the Town! Annie Get Your Gun! Also, just Annie! Today you'll learn about the development of the Broadway Book Musical in the late 19th...
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Rapper Common, Rev. Moss On Helping Chicago Heal And The ‘Plot’ Against Black America
Homicides in Chicago were up 56% in 2020 compared to the year before. But
efforts are underway to address the city's systemic issues. Award-winning
rapper Common and his pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, discussed some of their
ideas for...
PBS
A feast of African-American culinary contributions, baked into the South's DNA
In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With "The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South," Twitty...
TED Talks
TED: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder
Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors -- are enabling scientists to observe and understand changes beneath the continent's ice in...
TED Talks
TED: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars | Wanda Diaz Merced
Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic events in the universe. When she lost her sight and was left without a way to do her science, she had a revelatory insight: the light curves she could no...
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Regression - Crash Course Statistics
Today we're going to introduce one of the most flexible statistical tools - the General Linear Model (or GLM). GLMs allow us to create many different models to help describe the world - you see them a lot in science, economics, and...
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Binomial distributions | Probabilities of probabilities, part 1
The binomial distribution, introduced as setup to talk about the beta distribution
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To the Lighthouse: Crash Course Literature 408
John Green teaches you about Virginia Woolf's modernist novel, To the Lighthouse. Let's face it. You're not reading To the Lighthouse for the plot. There's not a whole lot of plot, unless you count the tension about the beef stew. You're...
Bozeman Science
A Beginner's Guide to Graphing Data
Paul Andersen explains how graphs are used to visually display data that is collected in experimentation. He describes five main types of graphs; line graph, scatter plot, bar graph, histogram and pie chart. He describes the important...
TED Talks
TED: The intriguing sound of marine mammals | Peter Tyack
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210
In which John Green teaches you about Harper Lee's famous (and only) novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's personal life, (seeing as this novel has some autobiographical elements) and her long association...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read "Waiting for Godot"? - Iseult Gillespie
Two men, Estragon and Vladimir, meet by a tree at dusk to wait for someone named "Godot." So begins a vexing cycle where the two debate when Godot will come, why they're waiting and whether they're even at the right tree. The play offers...
Curated Video
Statistics & Mathematics for Data Science and Data Analytics - Coefficient of Determination
New ReviewLet's learn more about one significant measure to determine how well our regressions work using the coefficient of determination.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Uncle Gobb and the Plot Plot – Book
New ReviewUncle Gobb and the Plot Plot – Book
Curated Video
Narrative Techniques
New ReviewThis video discusses various narrative techniques, such as flashback, foreshadowing, description, dialogue, and multiple plot lines.
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Mainpoints
New ReviewThis video outlines elements of a plot to identify the main events of a story.
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Archetypes
New ReviewA video titled "Archetypes" that reviews common archetypes found in literature.
Curated Video
Graph Cube Root
New ReviewA video entitled "Graph Cube Root" that shows how to use the a, k, and h values in the generical cube root equation to shift the parent function and graph the cube root equation.
Curated Video
Purpose of Conflict
New ReviewA video titled "Purpose of Conflict" which details the different types of conflict a character might face in a story.