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I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time, Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) "I'm like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali." With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian...

In which John Green teaches you about the Mexican-American War in the late 1840s, and the expansion of the United States into the western end of North America. In this episode of Crash Course, US territory finally reaches from the...

Hank summarizes the five reasons why infrared telescopes were supposed to be impossible to build, and then describes how a team of scientists and engineers overcame those obstacles to build the James Webb Space Telescope.

In which John Green teaches you about some of the colonies that were not in Virginia or Massachussetts. Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can say; ENGLISH people just liked it better that way, and when the...

Howcast - The scenario: The Super Bowl. The stakes: Humiliation. The results: Incredibly satisfying.

Howcast - Check out part 36 and shoot up Brazil in this walkthrough of Rockstar Games' new drug fueled shooter, Max Payne 3.

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Howcast - Hooligans -- scourges of the soccer stadium, ruining football games for fans everywhere. With a few tips, you can avoid them at the World Cup

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Here's how to put the "fan" in "fanatic supporter of a football team."

Meet Thomas Edison, the inventor who lit up the world—literally! Known for creating the first long-lasting light bulb, Edison also helped invent the phonograph and early motion pictures. He had over 1,000 patents and believed that hard...

In 1759, George Washington married Martha Custis and focused on his life as a plantation owner and politician before becoming a key leader in the American Revolution. His military success and leadership led to his unanimous election as...