In which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash Course Literature! We're starting with George Orwell's classic look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big...

Scientists often use the phrase “anatomically modern humans” to describe the point when our ancient ancestors looked like us. But when did humans become behaviorally modern?

Neuroscientist uri Hasson researches the basis of human communication, and experiments from his lab reveal that even across different languages, our brains show similar activity, or become "aligned," when we hear the same idea or story....

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New ReviewVisit the famous home of the Lincoln Assassination, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and the Petersen House in Washington DC.

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Let's practice applying reading standards to literary nonfiction! In this video, we explain how to analyze works of historical and political literary nonfiction. The examples used in the video are: the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...

On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and delivered his iconic, “I Have a Dream” speech. In this video, we analyze the text and delivery of Dr. King’s speech to understand...

Joyce made this recording in Paris at the HMV studios at the insistence of Sylvia Beach (the woman behind Shakespeare and Company, the publisher's of Ulysses). Beach recounts about the recording process, "Joyce himself was anxious to...

Learn how to use direct and indirect speech in English!

In this lesson, you’ll discover the difference between direct and indirect speech, practice converting statements, questions, and commands, and understand the rules for...

Nadine Strossen, senior fellow with FIRE and emerita professor of constitutional law at New York Law School, as well as former president of the ACLU, has dedicated her life to defending civil liberties and human rights. In recent years,...

Let's explore the Natural Language Toolkit, a library used for specific tasks related to natural language processing, including tokenization, filtering words, stemming, lemmatization, chunking/chinking, and entity recognition.

Here, we will focus on and simplify the machine-learning architecture of chatbots with the help of an example. We will understand the NLTK library and its role in developing chatbots.

In this video, you will learn about Amazon Polly.

Caliban's Speech from The Tempest

Learn how to deliver a manuscript speech from a word-for-word script and sound natural while you're doing it. Learn the 3 ways you'll likely speak from a manuscript and four tips to improve your speaking delivery.

Learn the story behind the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in American history. After a major Civil War battle, President Abraham Lincoln spoke just 271 words—but those words still inspire people today. He reminded...

Why Senator Bernie Sanders lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton.

Pope Francis -- Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1936 and is the eldest of five children.

The life and career of Bernie Sanders, the independent US Senator from Vermont who is running for the Democratic Party's 2016 presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton.

Explaining what the historic Paris Climate Change deal does and what it means for the world.

The leadership of Nicolás Maduro has brought Venezuela to the verge of revolution as its mismanaged economy collapses.

As Trump begins his presidency, this a data-driven look at how the American people view the world, including what they think are major threats.

By nearly every metric, Donald Trump's vision is wrong, the United States of America is already great. This data-driven analysis shows why.