YouTube description: In the high-speed world of rally car racing, you’re only as good as your co-driver. As these racers speed around hairpin turns on unpaved, narrow roads, drivers must rely on the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 540 views • 4:06

YouTube description: Get your free one month trial with The Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/cH94303M6Gt This month I was visiting my parents living in Dubai and I took the chance to make a video... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months ago • 510 views • 7:38

Is what is said ... what is implied? YouTube: Last week we talked about language and meaning. Today, Hank explores some of the things that complicate meaning and how we get around that. We’ll explain... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 596 views • 9:11

YouTube: As we continue explore free will, today Hank considers a middle ground between hard determinism and libertarian free will: compatibilism. This view seeks to find ways that our internally motivated... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 132 views • 8:55

"Justin Schmidt is an entomologist who studies stinging insects. Through the course of his work, he estimates that he has been stung more than 1,000 times, all in the name of science. In fact, Schmidt... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 392 views • 2:31

Lately, mine has been on vacation! YouTube: Today we continue our unit on identity by asking where the mind resides. Hank explains the mind body problem and several approaches to the question of where... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 47 views • 9:07

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 515 views • 2:59

YouTube description: Today's recipe is a little different: Cheese-curd fritters from Eliza Smith's 1758 cookbook, "The Compleat Housewife." We found it a bit challenging to make cheese curds in camp,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months ago • 49 views • 9:17

Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 218 views • 9:51

YouTube description: Now that we’ve left behind the philosophy of religion, it’s time to start exploring what other ways might exist to find meaning in the world. Today we explore essentialism and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 406 views • 8:54

YouTube description: Today we conclude our unit on Philosophy of Religion and Hank gets a little help from Indiana Jones to explain religious pragmatism and Pascal’s Wager, fideism, and Kierkegaard’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 162 views • 9:13

YouTube description: There is extreme fishing and then is going to such extremes that you have a rod and a worm-like lure fused to your face. Quite frankly it's the type of commitment we admire. Meet... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 week ago • 271 views • 6:32

YouTube description: This week we answer skeptics like Descartes with empiricism. Hank explains John Locke’s primary and secondary qualities and why George Berkeley doesn’t think that distinction... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 147 views • 9:52

YouTube: We continue our look at philosophical reasoning by introducing two more types: induction and abduction. Hank explains their strengths and weaknesses, as well as counterarguments and the Socratic... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months ago • 325 views • 10:18

Milk. It does a body [no] good! YouTube: There are a few topics that just never get old for me. “Pay for performance”. “overtesting”. “medical myths”. And, of course, my never-ending war... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 327 views • 4:23

YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,709 views • 14:09

"Help the truth put its shoes on." YouTube: In which Hank largely expands upon Wheaton's Law with some advice for building a better, more pleasant, more constructive internet. Of course, I would like... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months 1 week ago • 247 views • 3:57

"Exercising stimulates bone remodeling and ultimately bone strength." uhoh YouTube: Today Hank explains the skeletal system and why astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are out in space studying... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 31 views • 10:38

YouTube: Hank tries not to stress you out too much as he delves into the functions and terminology of your sympathetic nervous system.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 week ago • 98 views • 10:44

"We named the whole shebang after the sun." YouTube: In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 110 views • 10:17