In which +John Green  teaches you MORE about To Kill a Mockingbird. In this installment, John teaches you about race, class, and gender in the American south, as seen through the eyes of Scout and Harper Lee. John will talk about how Scout learns about these aspects of the social order as she interacts with the people of the town, learns from Calpurnia, watches the trial of Tom Robinson, and endures the attack of Bob Ewell. You'll also learn a little bit about Demi Moore and Mila Kunis, and John will ask just who is the Mockingbird, anyway? Not that he'll answer that, but he'll ask it.

Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature 211

In which +John Green teaches you about Harper Lee's famous (and only) novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. John will cover a bit about Harper Lee's personal life, (seeing as this novel has some autobiographical elements) and her long association with Truman Capote, who figures as a character in the book. You'll get an overview of the plot, and we'll talk a bit about Mockingbird as an example of bildungsroman (again(man, this description is heavy on parentheses)) and Southern Gothic, and look into the novel as a commentary on the racism and patriarchy of the Alabama in which Harper Lee grew up.


To Kill a Mockingbird, Part I - Crash Course Literature 210

I'm sure you've heard of Pavlov's Bell (and I'm not talking about the Aimee Mann song), but what was Ivan Pavlov up to, exactly? And how are our brains trained? And what is a "Skinner Box"? All those questions and more are answered in today's Crash Course Psychology, in which +Hank Green talks about some of the aspects of learning.

How to Train a Brain - Crash Course Psychology #11

+John Green  teaches you about Charlotte Brontë's classic coming of age novel, Jane Eyre. Look, we don't like to make judgement values here, but Jane Eyre is awesome. By which we mean the book is great, and the character is amazing. 

Reader, it's Jane Eyre - Crash Course Literature 207

In which +John Green continues to teach you about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. You'll learn about romantic vs Romantic, the latter of which is a literary movement. John will also look at a few different critical readings of Frankenstein, and you'll learn about Victor's motivations. We'll also look a little bit at the moral limitations of science, if there are any. 

Frankenstein Part II: Crash Course Literature 206

Remember that guy from 300? What was his name? ARG!!! It turns out our brains make and recall memories in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, +Hank Green  talks about the way we do it, what damaging that process can do to us, and that guy... with the face and six pack... 

How We Make Memories - Crash Course Psychology #13

In this episode of +CrashCourse  Psychology, +Hank Green  talks about how we learn by observation... and how that can mean beating the tar out of an inanimate clown named Bobo. 

The Bobo Beatdown - Crash Course Psychology #12

In which +John Green teaches you about Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart. You'll learn about Igboland, a region in modern day Nigeria, prior to the arrival of the British Empire. Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo, an Igbo villager who has worked his way up from life as a sharecropped and become a respected leader in his community. Okonkwo has a tragic fall, and is exiled. And then the trouble starts. British missionaries arrive, and change everything. Things Fall Apart has a lot to say about colonization, and even something to say about decolonization.

If One Finger Brought Oil - Things Fall Apart part I: Crash Course Literature 208

In which +Hank Green has to say things...and it's not easy!
Crash Course Psychology: Outtakes #1

You may think you know all about hypnosis from the movies. Zoolander, The Manchurian Candidate, etc... but there's a whole lot more going on. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, +Hank Green  tells us about some of the many altered states of consciousness, including hypnosis.

Altered States - Crash Course Psychology #10