Soon after whaling ships began operating in the North Pacific, an interesting trend emerged. Within just a few years, whalers saw a 58% drop in their successful strikes. Sperm whales had suddenly become harder to kill— they had begun...

Hank brings you the SciShow news of the week. Recent record high temperatures and other extreme weather events around the world are climate change in action; a new fossil of an ancient human ancestor; some disturbing discoveries about...

Thanks to spotted hyenas’ unusual social structure, males experience a tough life of solitude, harassment, and deprivation.

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In which John Green teaches you about Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about Igboland, a region in modern day Nigeria, prior to the arrival of the British Empire. Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo...

Clan MacDonald Family Tree | Scottish Genealogy

The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to be the one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies and the oldest democratic form of government on the American continent.

Originally made from five Native American...

How did the Scottish clan system collapse?

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Discover the legendary world of samurai in this captivating video! Journey back to feudal Japan and explore the fascinating lives of these elite warriors who lived by the code of Bushido. Learn about their rigorous training, the...

Take a closer look at Viking society, from the three-tiered social structure of jarls, karls, and slaves, to the vital role women played in both daily life and combat. Explore Viking longhouses, family life, and the importance of...

Dive into the strategies and tools Cro-Magnon used to hunt and gather food in a frigid, Ice Age Europe. This segment shows the use of sophisticated weapons like the spear-thrower and details the balanced diet that included meat, wild...

The 16th century was marked by male privateers, male politics, and the fear of not having a male heir for every throne in Europe. But an Irish noblewoman would go far beyond what was expected of her sex and time, becoming a leader, a...

In 1915 the president, Woodrow Wilson, screened the movie Birth of a Nation at the White House – a film that depicts Black men as brutal people who desire white women. Meanwhile white supremacist groups were writing school curriculums...

The Time a Black Baseball Team beat the Ku Klux Klan

This video, I build upon the research I did for my project for Awesome video, and look into the history of America's hate groups. These range from history deniers; to people in white hoods; to the current usage of Pepe the frog. Let's go...

Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American...

American democracy has a lineage of written records that we can trace to show the development of our nation, and how each document builds on those before it to make our foundation of freedom stronger. In this video, documents conceived...

In 1979, the murder of five communist protestors sealed an alliance between America's two largest factions of the far-right, the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis. This event says a lot about the state's reply to right-wing violence and the...

Contrary to popular belief, not all pirates hobbled on peg-legs with talking parrots perched on their shoulders, patches covering their eyes, and broad West Country accents sharpening their vowels. One of the most important, fascinating,...

Folklorist and social crusader, Stetson Kennedy, helped unmask the KKK, one of the deadliest hate groups in US history.

This video highlights the issue of sex selective abortions in India, where the preference for boys over girls has led to the elimination of millions of girls before birth. The practice, although illegal, is still widespread due to the...

Born in the fires of Vietnam, the White Power movement decided in 1983 to overthrow the government of the United States. But to do so, you need recruits, weapons, organization, and money. This is how they tried to build it.

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Women's Rights in India part 7/8

This video transcript highlights the story of a brave woman in Delhi who works as a cab driver at night to ensure the safety of women traveling alone. It sheds light on the issue of women's security in India, particularly in the...