Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics,... Read more »
Plants have got you surrounded. They’re in your toothpaste, your bedsheets, and your regular Taco Bell order. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll find out what botanists study and how... Read more »
Climate change has no bias, but our societies and systems do. And although it’s a danger to all of us, a changing climate affects some groups disproportionately, raising issues of justice and... Read more »
In which Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you about specialization and trade, and how countries decide whether they’re going to make stuff or trade for stuff. You’ll learn about things like... Read more »
Humans have come up with some clever ways of keeping cool when it’s warm, and staying warm when it’s cool. But unfortunately, our heating and air conditioning systems are worsening the climate... Read more »
Decarbonizing our power production is vitally important if we want to curtail climate change, but there are some major logistical issues we’re going to have to overcome before we can do that.... Read more »
We’re still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet... Read more »
You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth century: Trains connected cities, symbolizing progress. But they also brought about the destruction of rural lands, divisions between social classes,... Read more »
We learn a lot about our surroundings thanks to sound. But… what is it exactly? Sound, that is. What is sound? And how does it travel? And what is this doppler effect... Read more »
From towering skyscrapers covered in trees to zero carbon smart cities, there are so many ways to imagine what a sustainable city of the future might look like. But what does it... Read more »