Crash Course History of Science
Date de parution : 19 mars 2018
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Intro to History of Science We've been asking big questions for a really long time and we've all wanted to explore how we've sought to answer those questions through the... | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | The Presocratics Long ago, some philosophers worked very hard to separate myths from what they actually knew about nature. Thales theorized that everything in the... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Plato and Aristotle Last week, we met the Presocratics: despite having by any reasonable standard invented science in Europe, these thinkers are lumped together today... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | India You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have records about... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | The Americas and Time Keeping In this episode of Crash Course History of Science, we travel to the Americas to ask the question, "When are we?" and get some answers. We'll look... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Roman Engineering The Romans developed a lot of infrastructure like roads and aqueducts to both help their cities flourish and to... you know... be better at war. But... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 7 | The Medieval Islamicate World The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greater Mediterranean and western Asian world. Islamicate scholars—meaning... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Medieval China Like Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, ancient China represents a hydraulic civilization—one that maintained its population by diverting rivers to aid... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Ancient & Medieval Medicine The history of medicine is about two of our big questions: one, what is life? What makes it so special, so fragile, so… goopy!? Two, how do we know... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Alchemy n fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold. But real alchemists weren’t just mystical misers. They were skilled... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Cathedrals and Universities Until roughly 1100, there were relatively few places of knowledge-making. Monasteries and abbeys had special rooms called scriptoria where monks... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 12 | The Scientific Revolution So, what exactly is a scientific revolution? And are they more than just moments in time Historians use to mark the beginning and ending of things... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 13 | The New Astronomy This week on Crash Course: History of the Scientific Revolution—astronomical anomalies accrued. Meanwhile, in Denmark—an eccentric rich dude... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 14 | The Scientific Methods Historically speaking, there is no one scientific method. There’s more than one way to make knowledge. In this episode we're going to look at a few... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 15 | The New Anatomy There’s a question to consider that’s pretty daunting: what is life? And to try to answer that question, three tools stand out as being especially... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 16 | The Columbian Exchange Over the last four episodes, we’ve examined some of the stories that make up the idea of a “revolution” in knowledge-making in Europe. But we can’t... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 17 | Newton and Leibniz The standard story of the Scientific Revolution culminates with the long life of one man: Sir Isaac Newton—a humble servant of the Royal Mint,... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 18 | The New Chemistry One of the problems with the whole idea of a single Scientific Revolution is that some disciplines decided not to join any revolution. And others... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 19 | Biology Before Darwin You’ve probably heard of Charles Darwin, but before we get to him, you really need to understand how different people, throughout the seventeenth... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 20 | Earth Science It's Earth Science time!!!! In this field, natural philosophers were asking questions like, what’s up with fossils? Are they the remains of extinct... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 21 | The Industrial Revolution You probably know some of the signs of industrialization in the nineteenth century: Trains connected cities, symbolizing progress. But they also... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 22 | Darwin and Natural Selection "Survival of the Fittest" sounds like a great WWE show but today we're talking about that phrase as it relates to Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 23 | Eugenics and Fracis Galton After Darwin blew the doors off the scientific community, a lot of people did some weird and unscientific stuff with his ideas. Francis Galton and a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 24 | Micro-Biology It's all about the SUPER TINY in this episode of Crash Course: History of Science. In it, Hank Green talks about germ theory, John Snow (the other... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 25 | Genetics - Lost and Found Sometimes trail blazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 26 | Thermodynamics It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 27 | Electricity The study of electricity goes all the way back to antiquity. But, by the time electricity started to become more well known, a few familiar names... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 28 | Ford, Cars, and a New Revolution Historians love to debate each other. So some of them pointed out that the first half of this revolution looks a lot different from the second.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 29 | Cinema, Radio, and Television Radio, Cinema, and Television have been staples in news coverage, entertainment, and education for almost 100 years. But... where did they all come... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 30 | The Mind/Brain Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. But exactly what kind of stuff is the human brain? That one was—and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 31 | Marie Curie and Spooky Rays It's time to talk about one of the most awesome scientists that has ever been awesome: Marie Curie. She figured out ways to get an amazing education... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 32 | Einstein's Revolution There was physics before Einstein in the same way that there was biology before Darwin. Einstein didn’t just add some new ideas to physics. And he... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 33 | The Atomic Bomb The story picks up where we left off last time, with Einstein writing the president of his new homeland, the United States, urging him to build a... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 34 | Biomedicine The history of science up until the Cold War is often overshadowed by the Manhattan Project. But, today we are going to talk about advances in... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 35 | Genetics and The Modern Synthesis Remember how Darwin and Mendel lived around the same time, but everyone forgot about Mendel until 1900, and even then biologists saw Darwinism and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 36 | The Computer and Turing Computers and computing have changed a lot over the History of Science but ESPECIALLY over the last 100 years. In this episode of Crash Course... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 37 | Air Travel and The Space Race 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.... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 38 | Ecology We’ve explored the origins of modern biology, the earth sciences, and even the sciences of outer space. Now it’s time to put these disciplines... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 39 | Controlling the Environment Well, it wouldn't be too long after we started developing Ecology that we would try to control the environment. In some ways this was helpful and... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 40 | Biotechnology The history of discovering what DNA is, what it looks like, and how it works is... complicated. But, in this episode of History of Science, Hank... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 41 | Bodies and Dollars After World War Two, the applications of basic discoveries in biology took off—and became big business. Today, we’ll look at the rise of Big Pharma... |
