Today we’re looking at how society becomes stratified along gender lines. We’ll discuss Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinities and emphasized femininities. We’ll explore gender socialization in the home, media, and schools....

For children growing up in refugee camps, education is a powerful tool of liberation. In this inspiring talk, Makhtoum Abdalla, displaced as a child in Sudan and now living with his family in the Otash camp in Darfur, shares his biggest...

Bullying is a serious problem that can affect children’s mental health. But with these psychology strategies, teachers and parents might be able to prevent bullying at school.

You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have records about them. But they weren’t the only people making knowledge back in the day. Today, Hank...

In 1972, U.S. Congress passed Title IX, a law which prohibited discrimination against women in schools, colleges, and universities -- including school-sponsored sports. Before this law, female athletes were few and far between, and...

Dr. Ellen Ochoa is incredible! She published over a dozen papers, co-filed three patents, and was a NASA engineer, all before becoming an astronaut and spending nearly a thousand hours in space.

The Presocratics: Crash Course History of Science #2

Consent can be a tricky topic to talk about in sex education curriculums, but it doesn't have to be. In this hilarious and relatable talk, sex educator and TED Fellow Kaz offers a fresh look at teaching young people about the core...

In which John Green teaches you about the early days of the Civil Rights movement. By way of providing context for this, John also talks a bit about wider America in the 1950s. The 1950s are a deeply nostalgic period for many Americans,...

The future of green is local. Majora Carter tells three inspiring stories of people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet.

Groups of animals have some really interesting names! Learn about them with Jessi and Squeaks!

What does Psychology mean? Where does it come from? Hank gives you a 10 minute intro to one of the more tricky sciences and talks about some of the big names in the development of the field. Welcome to Crash Course Psychology!!!

In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that classified people's personalities into 16 types. Called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, it would go on to become...

Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now -- and it’s because we’re clinging to a business model that clearly doesn’t work. Education...

New ReviewMichelle Williams reflects on the profound influence of her high school social studies teacher, Mr. Greenspan, who helped shape her career path. During the time when the television series Roots sparked her interest in American history,...

New ReviewMichelle Williams reflects on her career in public health and the motivation behind her book The Cure for Everything, written during the COVID-19 pandemic to address widespread misunderstanding and underinvestment in the field. She...

New ReviewOliver B. Libby, author of Strong Floor, No Ceiling, argues that the greatest threat to America is not foreign attack but the erosion of belief in the American Dream. He warns that faith in upward mobility is at historic lows and calls...

New ReviewZsuzanna Szelényi reflects on entering politics at just 23, shaped less by contemporary role models than by her family—especially her grandmother, Karolina Patek. An extraordinary woman, Batak was a highly educated linguist who...

New ReviewPeter Hotez describes two major mentors who shaped his scientific career. At Rockefeller University, Anthony Cerami gave him rare intellectual freedom as an MD–PhD student, encouraging him to tackle big health problems through...

New ReviewFormer U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reflects on his life, career, and judicial philosophy. Born in San Francisco in 1938, Breyer taught at Harvard Law School before being appointed to the First Circuit Court of Appeals in...

New ReviewAndy Hargreaves, emeritus professor at Boston College and visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, reflects on his early career in The Making of an Educator, a book that is “not a memoir” but a meditation on how the formative...

New ReviewBaylor College of Medicine professor Peter Hotez, a pediatrician–scientist who develops vaccines—including a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine distributed to 100 million people in low-income countries—explains how vaccine science has become a...

New ReviewBaylor College of Medicine professor Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, describes his lifelong mission to develop low-cost vaccines and his personal journey as a physician-scientist. After his daughter Rachel was diagnosed with autism and...

New ReviewTracy Slater describes two college professors—Ronna Johnson in English and Claire Schub in French—who profoundly shaped her love of literature, writing, and independent scholarship. Their deep passion for their subjects inspired her to...