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  • Introduction to Astronomy: Crash Course Astronomy #1

    Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?"

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    Chapters:
    Introduction 00:00
    What is Astronomy? 3:00
    Who Studies Astronomy? 3:50
    Origins of Astronomy 5:27
    Astrology vs Astronomy 6:19
    Geocentrism 7:51
    Revolutions in Astronomy 8:58
    Astronomy Today 10:26
    Review 11:29

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    PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios
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    Photos:
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_cutaway.png
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_magnetic_field#mediaviewer/File:Geodynamo_Between_Reversals.gif
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm#mediaviewer/File:Magnetosphere_rendition.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#mediaviewer/File:Saturn_PIA06077.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/243_Ida#mediaviewer/File:243_Ida_large.jpg
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_Hale_Bopp_NASA.jpg
    http://solarviews.com/raw/comet/kuiper3.jpg
    http://solarviews.com/cap/comet/kuiper3.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars#mediaviewer/File:3_Solar_Interstellar_Neighborhood_(ELitU).png
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/28/planetary_nebula_sh2_68_the_flaming_skull_nebula.html
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/06/milky_way_galaxy_two_new_discoveries_about_its_spiral_arms.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#mediaviewer/File:PIA16695-BlackHole-Corona-20130227.jpg
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier_69_HST.jpg
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/25/nearby_galaxies_swift_uv_pictures_of_two_galactic_neighbors.html
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe_SMALLER_%28JPEG%29.jpg
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/21/age_of_the_universe_planck_results_show_universe_is_13_82_billion_years.html
    http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy#mediaviewer/File:WISE-_Andromeda.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy#mediaviewer/File:VST_snaps_a_very_detailed_view_of_the_Triangulum_Galaxy.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#mediaviewer/File:HST-SM4.jpeg
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/21/winter_solstice_2013_the_shortest_day_of_the_year.html
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/28/full_moon_today_is_the_13th_full_moon_of_2012.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#mediaviewer/File:Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#mediaviewer/File:Tycho_Brahe.JPG
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler#mediaviewer/File:Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#mediaviewer/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#mediaviewer/File:Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/09/25/revealing_the_universe_the_hubble_extreme_deep_field.html

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    18 min
  • Community Ecology: Feel the Love - Crash Course Ecology #4

    Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interactions are actually about side-stepping direct competition and instead finding ways to divvy up resources to let species get along. Feel the love?

    Table of Contents
    1) Competitive Exclusion Principle 2:02
    2) Fundamental vs. Realized Niche 3:48
    3) Eco-lography / Resource Partitioning 5:25
    4) Character Displacement 7:29
    5) Mutualism 9:15
    6) Commensalism 9:55

    References
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/c/competitive_exclusion_principle.htm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbRPDGikcnc
    http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/mcvay/ES204%20DE/ES%20docs/animations/gause.swf
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/e/ecological_niche.htm
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/MacArthur's_Warblers.html
    http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus/MacArthur.html
    http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1383283?uid=3739960&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101174112437
    http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent591k/symbiosis.html
    http://www.eoearth.org/article/Community_ecology
    http://livingseas.org/2011/01/22/killer-whales-stalk-greys/
    http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/pugetsound/beaches/pool.html
    http://www.visitolympicpeninsula.org/tidepools.html
    http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.mi.04.100150.000413?journalCode=micro
    http://eol.org/pages/484359/overview
    http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/IntroductiontoSeaAnemones.html
    http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/symbiosis.html
    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2012/03/13/hermit-crab-moves-inside-a-living-sea-anemone-using-it-like-a-shell/
    http://sites.sinauer.com/ecology2e/webext11.1.html
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/MacArthur's_Warblers.html
    http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.es.06.110175.000245

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    17 min
  • The Power of Political Recognition

    Is recognition really enough? In our final episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we’ll explore this concept, from its 19th-century philosophical origins to modern-day Native land acknowledgements.

    Crash Course Political Theory #13

    Introduction: Recognizing Palestine 00:00
    Hegel & Recognition 1:55
    Fanon & Decolonial Theory 4:54
    Axel Honneth & Charles Taylor 6:10
    Redistribution & Reparations 10:01
    Review & Credits 12:58

    Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u5zJCbVA0xCurLbQwWzcxXEdlqXAPpAyYVS1quwKIis/edit?usp=sharing
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    20 min
  • Visions of the End of the World: Crash Course Religions #22

    It’s the end of the world as we know it. Or is it? In this episode of Crash Course Religions, we explore end-of-the-world predictions across time and faith traditions. It turns out that, more often than not, those predictions have been more about a group’s present problems than any future calamity.

    Introduction: Fire and Ice 00:00
    Apocalypticism 1:14
    Revelation & Nero 3:53
    Ragnarök 6:30
    The Kali Yuga & the Mahdi 7:33
    Unfulfilled Prophecies 9:12
    Review & Credits 11:23

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IRPhziWfx72dIlGC1xIuEPWqb_uwnumdtYnmmsR4jto/edit?usp=sharing
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    18 min
  • Human Population Growth - Crash Course Ecology #3

    If being alive on Earth were a contest, humans would win it hands down. We're like the Michael Phelps of being alive but with 250,000 times more gold medals. Today, Hank is here to tell us the specifics of why and how human population growth has happened over the past hundred and fifty years or so, and how those specifics relate to ecology.

    Table of Contents
    1) R vs. K Selection Theory 01:41
    2) Causes of Exponential Human Growth 03:24
    3) Human Carrying Capacity 03:30
    4) Ecological Footprints 06:40
    5) Causes for Decline in Human Growth Rate 08:10

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    16 min
  • What is a "Developed" Country? Crash Course Geography #40

    Today we’re going to discuss what it means for a place to be “developed”. Development is often associated with economic success — that is countries with higher standards of living and material wealth like those found in Europe and North America. But as we’ll see, this perspective is only one way to compare countries on the global stage, has strong ties to colonialist histories, and doesn’t necessarily capture a place’s environmental and socioeconomic sustainability or even the population’s general happiness. We’ll focus on the region in the Middle East and North Africa, called MENA, and examine how the histories of the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon have resulted in drastically different development scores.

    [Sources]
    General
    Getis, Bjelland, and Getis. Introduction to Geography, 15 ed. McGraw-Hill Education. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-259-57000-1

    Gregory, Derek, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3288-6

    For a free and open source option for Intro to Human Geography, see: https://humangeography.pressbooks.com/

    For a free and open source option for World Regional Geography, see: https://worldgeography.pressbooks.com/front-matter/introduction/

    Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam: 2020 edition. The Princeton Review.

    Human development Indices
    https://worldhappiness.report/faq/
    https://www.academia.edu/33199038/The_History_of_Gross_National_Happiness
    http://www.gnh.institute/gross-national-happiness-research-library/history-of-happiness-science-who-is-who-happiness-leaders-pioneers.htm
    http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr_2020_overview_english.pdf

    UAE Sources
    https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-arab-emirates/#economy (lists 30% of economy as oil and gas)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates

    Lebanon Sources
    https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/lebanon/#economy
    https://theconversation.com/lebanon-one-year-after-beirut-explosion-failing-state-struggles-amid-poverty-and-sectarianism-165543 “actually existing neoliberalism”
    https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/lebanon/publication/lebanon-reform-recovery-reconstruction-framework-3rf

    World Bank, IMF, and GDP Charts
    https://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GDP.pdf
    https://thearabweekly.com/six-decades-after-independence-middle-east-

    still-looking-growth-model
    https://blogs.worldbank.org/arabvoices/shifting-development-paradigm-

    middle-east-and-north-africa
    https://www.salon.com/2016/05/31/wrong_all_along_neoliberal_imf_admits_neoliberalism_fuels_inequality_and_hurts_growth/

    China, Belt and Road
    https://theconversation.com/is-the-resource-curse-hard-baked-into-african-economies-chinas-approach-hints-that-it-may-not-be-167397 el)

    First/Third World
    https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/first_world.htm
    https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-first-second-and-third-world-countries-origin-of-concept-and-present-beliefs.html

    #CrashCourse #Geography #Development

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    18 min
  • How Do Outbreaks Start? Pathogens and Immunology: Crash Course Outbreak Science #2

    You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and sometimes super dangerous too. That’s why in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’re going to get familiar with all different types of pathogens like viruses, bacteria, fungi, and more!

    This episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science was produced by Complexly in partnership with Operation Outbreak and the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard—with generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

    Sources:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209710/#:~:text=Microorganisms%20capable%20of%20causing%20disease,be%20transmitted%E2%80%94by%20several%20routes.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788752/#:~:text=Viruses%20initially%20stick%20to%20cell,the%20cell%20membrane%20(4).
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330701/
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292075/#:~:text=To%20infect%20the%20host%20and,endothelial%20cells%20and%20epithelial%20cells.&text=There%20are%20two%20general%20mechanisms,induced%20endocytosis%20and%20active%20penetration.
    https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/immune-system-disorders
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4290017/
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960580/


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    18 min
  • What Does Religious Freedom Mean?: Crash Course Religions #23

    We might agree religious freedom is a good thing—but can we agree on what it really means? This episode of Crash Course Religions explores ongoing debates over where the limits of religious freedom lie. We’ll discover why this ideal enshrined as a constitutional right proves so tricky to apply in the real world.

    Introduction: The Limits of Religious Freedom 00:00
    History of Religious Freedom 1:34
    Belief-Action Dichotomy 5:57
    Compelling Interest 7:20
    Religious Freedom Restoration Act 8:23
    When Freedoms Clash 9:36
    Review And Credits 11:33

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IRPhziWfx72dIlGC1xIuEPWqb_uwnumdtYnmmsR4jto/edit?usp=sharing

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    19 min
  • How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1

    In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini-series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What's the point of reading critically. John will argue that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike direct communication though, the writer has to communicate with a stranger, through time and space, with only "dry dead words on a page." So how's that going to work? Find out with Crash Course Literature! Also, readers are empowered during the open letter, so that's pretty cool.

    Crash Course Literature 100 Reading List:
    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Catcher in the Rye
    Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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    11 min

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