Ever watched the flow of traffic and thought it looked a bit like water moving? Today, we re exploring three things that are not fluid, but behave in incredibly fluid-like ways! Join Hank Green...

Ever wonder how we got to where we are today with our scientific breakthroughs? As we forge ahead into the year, let’s take some time to thank the intrepid researchers, volunteers, and even...

In which Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about tricksters. In this episode, we re talking about tricksters as culture heroes. Basically, a culture hero is someone whose creativity adds...

Today we begin our discussion of computer graphics. So we ended last episode with the proliferation of command line (or text) interfaces, which sometimes used screens, but typically electronic...

Mike Rugnetta continues to teach you about Tricksters in myth, and this time we re headed to the Americas. Coyote and Raven appear in stories from many Native American groups, and more often...

As we get into our unit on stratification, we inevitably return to our old friends, the three sociological paradigms. How to structural functionalism, social conflict theory, and symbolic interacti...

Today we’re going to step back from hardware and software, and take a closer look at how the backdrop of the cold war and space race and the rise of consumerism and globalization brought...

Mike Rugnetta is going to tell you stories of death, destruction, divine judgment, damnation, and the occasional happy ending. That s right, this week we re talking about the Apocalypse. Actually,...

Today we re going to talk about the birth of personal computing. Up until the early 1970s components were just too expensive, or underpowered, for making a useful computer for an individual,...

Social class in America is... hard to talk about. As Sociology, the difficulty lies in pinning down what we mean by "Social Class." In this episode of Crash Course Sociology, Nicole chats to...

If you want to make a movie, generally you re going to want to start with a script. In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily Gladstone talks about the basics of screenplays and...

Ragnarok! It s the end of the world, Norse style. It s got everything you want in an apocalypse. Earthquakes, destruction, armies of the dead, a giant evil wolf, giants with flaming swords,...

The best way to make sure you’re making the most of the time you have is to start off well organized. This week we’re talking about planning and organizational systems and how to set yourself...

Today, we re going to discuss the critical role graphical user interfaces, or GUIs played in the adoption of computers. Before the mid 1980 s the most common way people could interact with...

Pitching your movie to people can be hard. A studio, a friend, your mom... each of these entities will have different stresses and give you different results. But, what s important in a pitch?...

Today we’re going to discuss how 3D graphics are created and then rendered for a 2D screen. From polygon count and meshes, to lighting and texturing, there are a lot of considerations in...

Let s get Heroic with Mike Rugnetta. This week on Crash Course World Mythology, we re talking about the Hero s Journey and the Monomyth, as described by Joseph Campbell. Campbell s theories...

Who does what on a film set? And how many of them are there? What is HMU? What is a Scripty? In this episode of Crash Course Film Production, Lily Gladstone gives us A BIG OVERVIEW on the Productio...

This week we are building on last week’s outline of American stratification to explore how class differences affect people’s daily lives. We’ll explore variations in everything from values...

Today we’re breaking down the five different social class in the United States: the upper class, the upper middle class, the average middle class, the working class, and the lower class....