Scientists are often thought of--and shown as--brainy geniuses toiling away in their ivory towers. In reality, as Alan Alda discussed at the 2016 World Science Festival, the work of science is done by people with individual aspirations...

Once data is read into Python, a first step is to analyze the data with summary statistics. This is especially true if the data set is large. Summary statistics include the count, mean, standard deviation, maximum,...

Tariffs for some reason is a killer for kids on tests, so in this super fast lecture I explain their meaning, why they are used, who opposed them and a few examples of their use in US History.

Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives -- how we learn, how we communicate, how we make decisions. Yet they're absent from our digital lives; the devices and apps we interact with have no way of knowing how we feel....

In this video I cover all the concepts for an introductory microeconomics course and AP course. I go super fast so don't take notes. Focus on the big picture ideas, identfy what you still need to practoce, and go back and watch my Unit...

Brush your history with a quick overview of the 1862 Homestead Act, one of Abraham Lincoln's crowning legislative achievements.

When you hear the roar of traffic, the bark of a dog, or your teacher's voice, you are experiencing sound. This program uses colorful animations to explore important characteristics of sound, including intensity, loudness, pitch, and...

A short yet fun and informative video review of the period of Detente that existed between the US and China and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Take a quick trip down the Erie Canal of Explaining as we look at how this revolutionary transportation system changed the course of United States History. Join me as we lay down the tracks of learning by covering the basics on the...

In this video, I show you how to use social media to build success and profitability in your business, no matter where you are in your business journey.

Test the limits of the New Deal and the power of the Federal Government with this historic Supreme Court Case.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new agenda. How will it affect companies and markets?

This video continues going over how to find the derivative of functions formed by products of functions by using the product rule. This videos goes over 5 examples illustrating how to find the derivative of functions by writing a general...

This video provides an overview of antibiotics, explaining how they work to help cure bacterial infections. It discusses the different types of drugs that treat symptoms versus those that work to cure the disease, as well as the...

Learn the very basics about the 19th century Grange formation. What did they want, whom did they hate on?

Find out the skinny on the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed in 1882 and a superb example of nativism and xenophobia.

We've talked about a lot of revolutions in 19th Century Europe, and today we're moving on to a less warlike revolution, the Industrial Revolution. You'll learn about the development of steam power and mechanization, and the labor and...

When the Protestant Reformation broke out in Western Europe, the Catholic Church got the message, at least a little bit. Pope Paul III called a council to look into reforming some aspects of the Catholic Church and try to stem the tide...

Between 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually, they carved out Mount Rushmore. Today, the monument draws nearly 3 million people to South Dakota's...

So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers...

In 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people were rising up to throw off monarchies, and Louis...

European exploration had a lot of side effects. When the Old World and the New World began to interact, people, wealth, food, animals, and disease began to flow in both directions. In the New World, countless millions were killed by...

We've been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let's take a moment to zoom out, and look at the ways that individuals' lives were changing in the time span we've covered so...

We try not to get into too much great man history here at Crash Course, but we have to admit: Napoleon Bonaparte is a pretty big deal. Join us as we track the rise, further rise, fall, rise, fall, mortal fall, and posthumous rise of...