1. Crash Course History of Science Preview
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Like the Industrial or the Einsteinian Revolution, the Space Race is a trope, or way of organizing historical events into a story that makes sense. In this story, the two great powers that emerged after World War Two—the United States and Soviet Union—competed to send communications satellites, dogs, and people into outer space…
1. Crash Course History of Science Preview
Aired: Mar 26, 2018For as long as Hank has hosted Crash Course, he's wanted to host a series abo...
2. Intro to the History of Science
Aired: Apr 9, 2018We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted t...
So, who was this Presocrates guy? Just kidding. Long ago, some philosophers w...
Last week, we met the Presocratics: despite having by any reasonable standard...
You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers...
6. The Americas and Time Keeping
Aired: May 7, 2018The Romans developed a lot of infrastructure like roads and aqueducts to both...
The Romans developed a lot of infrastructure like roads and aqueducts to both...
8. The Medieval Islamicate World
Aired: May 21, 2018The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greate...
Like Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, ancient China represents a hydraulic civi...
10. Ancient and Medieval Medicine
Aired: Jun 11, 2018The history of medicine is about two of our big questions: one, what is life?...
In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold....
12. Cathedrals and Universities
Aired: Jul 2, 2018Until roughly 1100, there were relatively few places of knowledge-making. Mon...
So, what exactly is a scientific revolution? And are they more than just mome...
This week on Crash Course: History of the Scientific Revolution-astronomical ...
Historically speaking, there is no one scientific method. There's more than o...
There's a question to consider that's pretty daunting: what is life? And to t...
Over the last four episodes, we've examined some of the stories that make up ...
The standard story of the Scientific Revolution culminates with the long life...
One of the problems with the whole idea of a single Scientific Revolution is ...
You've probably heard of Charles Darwin, but before we get to him, you really...
It's Earth Science time!!!. In this field, natural philosophers were asking q...
You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth ce...
23. Darwin and Natural Selection
Aired: Oct 8, 2018"Survival of the Fittest" sounds like a great WWE show but today we're talkin...
24. Eugenics and Francis Galton
Aired: Oct 15, 2018After Darwin blew the doors off the scientific community, a lot of people did...
It's all about the SUPER TINY in Microbiology. In it, Hank Green talks about ...
26. Genetics -- Lost and Found
Aired: Oct 29, 2018Sometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Some...
It's time to heat things up. LITERALLY. It's time for Hank to talk about the ...
The study of electricity goes all the way back to antiquity. But, by the time...
29. Ford, Cars, and a New Revolution
Aired: Nov 26, 2018Historians love to debate each other. So some of them pointed out that the fi...
Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. ...
31. Marie Curie and Spooky Rays
Aired: Dec 17, 2018It's time to talk about one of the most awesome scientists that has ever been...
There was physics before Einstein in the same way that there was biology befo...
The story picks up where we left off last time, with Einstein writing the pre...
The history of science up until the Cold War is often overshadowed by the Man...
35. Genetics and The Modern Synthesis
Aired: Feb 4, 2019Remember how Darwin and Mendel lived around the same time, but everyone forgo...
Computers and computing have changed a lot over the History of Science but ES...
37. Air Travel and The Space Race
Aired: Feb 18, 2019Like the Industrial or the Einsteinian Revolution, the Space Race is a trope,...
We’ve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even th...
39. Controlling the Environment
Aired: Mar 4, 2019Well, it wouldn't be too long after we started developing Ecology that we wou...
The history of discovering what DNA is, what it looks like, and how it works ...
After World War Two, the applications of basic discoveries in biology took of...
With the question “What is life?” addressed at the molecular level, humanity ...
43. The Internet and Computing
Aired: Apr 8, 2019We’ve talked a lot about advances in biotech. But none of those could have ha...
It's time to have a look at the future of human life and how technology could...
Scientists tend to be careful and resistant to big claims. So evidence for th...
It's the final episode of our History of Science series and we thought it wou...
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Production Country: United States
Genres:Documentary, History