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  • Atomic Hook-Ups - Types of Chemical Bonds: Crash Course Chemistry #22

    Atoms are a lot like us - we call their relationships "bonds," and there are many different types. Each kind of atomic relationship requires a different type of energy, but they all do best when they settle into the lowest stress situation possible. The nature of the bond between atoms is related to the distance between them and, like people, it also depends on how positive or negative they are. Unlike human relationships, we can analyze exactly what makes chemical relationships work, and that's what this episode is all about.

    If you are paying attention, you will learn that chemical bonds form in order to minimize the energy difference between two atoms or ions; that those chemical bonds may be covalent if atoms share electrons, and that covalent bonds can share those electrons evenly or unevenly; that bonds can also be ionic if the electrons are transferred instead of shared: and how to calculate the energy transferred in an ionic bond using Coulomb's Law.

    Pssst... we made flashcards to help you review the content in this episode! Find them on the free Crash Course App!

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    Table of Contents
    Bonds Minimize Energy 01:38
    Covalent Bonds 03:18
    Ionic Bonds 05:37
    Coulomb's Law 05:51

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    14 min
  • Bioinformatics: How Data Saves Lives: Crash Course Biology #40

    On its own, a huge DNA sequence is a meaningless pile of data — so, how do biologists figure out what it means? They turn to the power of bioinformatics! In this episode, we’ll learn what bioinformatics is, how it works, and how scientists have used it to better understand everything from evolution to a viral epidemic.

    Introduction: Pizza Data 00:00
    Bioinformatics 1:20
    Algorithms 2:33
    The Human Genetic Code 3:28
    The BRCA1 Gene 5:07
    Transcriptomes 6:14
    The Zika Virus 7:22
    Bioinformatics & Programming 8:57
    Review & Credits 10:07

    This series was produced in collaboration with HHMI BioInteractive, committed to empowering educators and inspiring students with engaging, accessible, and quality classroom resources. Visit https://BioInteractive.org/CrashCourse for more information.

    Are you an educator looking for what NGSS Standards are covered in this episode? Check out our Educator Standards Database for Biology here: https://www.thecrashcourse.com/biologystandards

    Check out our Biology playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPW_ofbxdHNciuLoTRLPMgB

    Watch this series in Spanish on our Crash Course en Español channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcbA0DkuFjWQZzjwF6w_gUrE_5_d3vd3

    Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GLDtAXE6ekg4Chk2qN3TYbNt0pJbyaHqTqRd6QY8pd4/edit?usp=sharing


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    17 min
  • How Does Art Tell Stories? : Crash Course Art History #7

    From cave paintings to public murals, humans have told stories with art for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we discover that visual storytelling is elementally human — and so is competing over whose story is told.

    Introduction: Narrative Art 00:00
    History as Story 00:55
    Contradictory Stories 04:10
    Official & Unofficial Stories 07:01
    Review & Credits 08:51

    Image Descriptions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ETiCxe4GrVzFii7dBhF42oHx1EUCCh5y12wbtUjsH8A/edit

    Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GW2NKzhpMNMmRyAFJVhFJG9cSfUOMRL-QrcWuHcWcIA/edit?usp=sharing

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    15 min
  • The Progressive Era: Crash Course US History #27

    In which John Green teaches you about the Progressive Era in the United States. In the late 19th and early 20th century in America, there was a sense that things could be improved upon. A sense that reforms should be enacted. A sense that progress should be made. As a result, we got the Progressive Era, which has very little to do with automobile insurance, but a little to do with automobiles. All this overlapped with the Gilded Age and is a little confusing, but here we have it. Basically, people were trying to solve some of the social problems that came with the benefits of industrial capitalism. To oversimplify, there was a competition between the corporations' desire to keep wages low and workers' desire to have a decent life. Improving food safety, reducing child labor, and unions were all on the agenda in the Progressive Era. While progress was being made, and people were becoming freer, these gains were not equally distributed. Jim Crow laws were put in place in the south, and immigrant rights were restricted as well. So once again on Crash Course, things aren't so simple.

    Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. The Progressive Era was marked by rapid reactions to the Gilded Age: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-progressive-era
    Literature such as The Jungle revealed the horrifying conditions of factory industries, one of several which were overhauled with new progressive regulations: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/excerpt-from-the-jungle

    Chapters:
    Introduction: The Progressive Era 00:00
    The Progressive Era 1:06
    Social Concerns of the Progressive Era 1:53
    Mystery Document 2:48
    The Jungle 4:04
    Muckracking, Journalism, and Photography 4:22
    Union Organizing 4:55
    The Industrial Workers of the World 5:46
    Mass Consumption Culture 6:29
    The Labor Problem 7:39
    Government Solutions to Social Problems 8:46
    The Socialist Party 9:30
    The 17th Amendment 10:17
    Initiatives & Referendums 10:36
    Voter Suppression & Jim Crow Laws 11:14
    Plessy v. Ferguson 12:12
    Booker T. Washington 12:46
    W.E.B. DuBois 13:28
    Credits 14:30

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    22 min
  • Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25

    In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they drove the growth of cities and manned the rapid industrialization that was taking place. In the western US many, many Chinese immigrants arrived to work on the railroad and in mines. As is often the case in the United States, the people who already lived in the US reacted kind of badly to this flood of immigrants. Some legislators tried to stem the flow of new arrivals, with mixed success. Grover Cleveland vetoed a general ban on immigration, but the leadership at the time did manage to get together to pass an anti-Chinese immigration law. Immigrants did win some important Supreme Court decisions upholding their rights, but in many ways, immigrants were treated as second-class citizens. At the same time, the country was rapidly urbanizing. Cities were growing rapidly and industrial technology was developing new wonders all the time. John will cover all this upheaval and change, and hearken back to a time when racial profiling did in fact boil down to analyzing the side of someone's face.

    Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. As America industrialized further and manufacturing grew, a rush of new immigrants came to America seeking job opportunities: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-rush-of-immigrants
    Immigrants often entered through New York's Ellis Island where the Statue of Liberty bore the iconic phrase "Give me your tired, your poor,": https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-new-colossus
    Immigrants experienced culture shock and hard living conditions during this time, as documented in later memoirs such as "America and I": https://www.commonlit.org/texts/america-and-i

    Chapters:
    Introduction 00:00
    The Agricultural Golden Age 0:39
    Americans Move to Cities 1:54
    New York City & Chicago 2:41
    The Rise of Immigration 3:21
    Immigrant Cities 4:05
    Southern & Eastern European Immigrants 5:30
    Chinese Immigrants 6:31
    Mass Immigration: A Global Phenomenon 7:44
    Mystery Document 8:34
    Why Did Immigrants Come to America? 9:36
    Living Conditions in Immigrant Cities 10:02
    Wealth Segregation 11:00
    Credits 12:12

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    18 min
  • The Civil War Part 2: Crash Course US History #21

    In which John Green teaches you how the Civil War played a large part in making the United States the country that it is today. He covers some of the key ways in which Abraham Lincoln influenced the outcome of the war, and how the lack of foreign intervention also helped the Union win the war. John also covers the technology that made the Civil War different than previous wars. New weapons helped to influence the outcomes of battles, but photography influenced how the public at large perceived the war. In addition, John gets into the long-term effects of the war, including the federalization and unification of the United States. All this plus homesteading, land grant universities, railroads, federal currency, and taxes.

    Check out the US National Archives Flickr. They have an awesome collection of Matthew Brady Civil War photography here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections/72157622495226723/

    Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. One of the most influential moments of the Civil War was when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-emancipation-proclamation
    However, Lincoln faced a long and difficult road before abolishing slavery, as seen in his relationship with Frederick Douglass: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/abolishing-slavery-the-efforts-of-frederick-douglass-and-abraham-lincoln
    When President Lincoln was assassinated, the nation grieved and pondered how it would recover from the Civil War: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/o-captain-my-captain

    Learn more about the Civil War, Frederick Douglass, and more in Crash Course Black American History:
    Frederick Douglass (#17): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QOTexnD-NE
    Black Americans in the Civil War (#18): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NgdnsjPFNE

    Chapters:
    Introduction 00:00
    Did Lincoln Free the Slaves? 0:59
    How Some Slaves Freed Themselves 1:55
    Why Lincoln Signed the Emancipation Proclamation 2:41
    The Gettysburg Address 4:20
    The First Modern War 5:01
    Mystery Document 6:04
    Matthew Brady - Civil War Photographer 6:26
    A New Nation 7:01
    The Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, and Pacific Railway Act 8:16
    Financing the Civil War 8:54
    Post-War Industrialization 9:37
    Credits 10:21

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    16 min
  • Nervous and Endocrine Systems: What Really Happens When You Step on a Lego: Crash Course Biology #46

    If cells and organs never talked to each other, an animal would fall apart faster than a boy band after the popular one goes solo. Thankfully, that’s where the nervous and endocrine systems come in! In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll learn how they use neurons, hormones, and more to keep animals’ bodies coordinated.

    Introduction: Internal communication in animals 00:00
    Why communication matters 01:01
    The nervous system 01:58
    What happens when you step on a Lego? 03:48
    Hormones 06:19
    Fight or Flight 08:01
    Review & Credits 09:07

    This series was produced in collaboration with HHMI BioInteractive, committed to empowering educators and inspiring students with engaging, accessible, and quality classroom resources. Visit https://BioInteractive.org/CrashCourse for more information.

    Are you an educator looking for what NGSS Standards are covered in this episode? Check out our Educator Standards Database for Biology here: https://www.thecrashcourse.com/biologystandards

    Check out our Biology playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPW_ofbxdHNciuLoTRLPMgB

    Watch this series in Spanish on our Crash Course en Español channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkcbA0DkuFjWQZzjwF6w_gUrE_5_d3vd3

    Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GLDtAXE6ekg4Chk2qN3TYbNt0pJbyaHqTqRd6QY8pd4/edit?usp=sharing

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    15 min
  • The Vikings! - Crash Course World History 224

    In which John Green teaches you about Vikings! That's right, one of our most requested subjects, the Vikings, right here on Crash Course. So what's the deal with Vikings? Well, the stuff you've heard about them may not be true. The Vikings weren't just pagan raiders striking terror into the hearts of defenseless European Christendom. They were some of the greatest travelers of their time, and they weren't always traveling to steal. In a lot of cases, they were traveling to trade. John will teach you about Viking trade goods, Norse Mythology, and yes, there will be blood, guts, and dragons. OK?

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    17 min

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