#crash course

[thecrashcourse]

Premiering today at 12 pm ET: the first ever Crash Course Lecture! Join us and guest lecturer John Green in the live chat as we learn about the history and science of #tuberculosis and how we can #StopTB

Crash Course Lectures are individual long-form videos that dive deep into a topic in a multidisciplinary way. As always at Crash Course, we embrace curiosity. We hope learners of all kinds enjoy these lectures, and that you are inspired to continue learning about the topic even after the video ends!

[octoberconstellation]

Found on hank greens twitter

[markscherz]

Hi!! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for beginner-friendly introduction to zoology resources? :)

Yes here you go:

[superlinguo]

New Research Article: Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics

This handbook chapter is a behind-the-scenes of how the Crash Course Linguistics video series came together. I’m really proud that this article includes contributions from the linguistics writing team, including my co-writer Gretchen McCulloch, and our fact checker Jessi Grieser, but also from members of the Complexly team, who produced the show, including Nicole Sweeney, Rachel Alatalo, Hannah Bodenhausen and Ceri Riley. As with the actual videos themselves, this was a dream team. Lingcomm that is inclusive doesn’t just happen as an accident - in this article we discuss some of the ways we set things up to make the best series we could.

This chapter is also a dream project, because it’s part of the excellent double feature: Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics, both edited by Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, & Mary Bucholz for Oxford University Press. These books are both be available through digital open access. They include some of your new favouite classics about the state of linguistics in research, education and outreach, even if you don’t know that just yet.

Abstract

This case study vignette provides an insight into the choices made in the writing of Crash Course Linguistics (Complexly/PBS 2020). This series of sixteen 10-minute videos cover core introductory level topics for English speakers who consume online content. We discuss how the topics were selected and arranged into a series order. We also discuss the ways we actively built inclusion into the series workflow and content, including in the team that worked on the content, the language examples selected and topics covered. Throughout we discuss the challenges and benefits of working in a collaborative team that includes a media production company and linguists with a commitment to public engagement and communication linguistics to new audiences. Sharing these observations about putting Crash Course Linguistics together is part of our commitment to using public communication to advance the standard of public engagement with the field, and the field’s approach to inclusive practice.

Reference

Gawne, Lauren, Gretchen McCulloch, Nicole Sweeney, Rachel Alatalo, Hannah Bodenhausen, Ceri Riley & Jessi Grieser. 2024. Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics. In Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (Eds), Inclusion in Linguistics, 383-396. Oxford University Press. [Open Access]

See Also:

Open Access for the whole Inclusion in Linguistics volume

Crash Course Linguistics on YouTube

Mutual Intelligibility posts for Crash Course Linguistics

[sh1ga-to3s]

I drew toddler Leona hugging aberration Leo and…

@probably-not-a-rutabaga

[mainlysarcastic]

It’s really entertaining watching the internet rediscover that Hank Green is queer every few years

[renegadesstuff]

HOW FAST THE NIGHT CHANGES 🤍

[jackshiccup]

snotlout calling the fireworm queen ‘your highness’ and ‘your majesty’ gods i love him

[prakharstuff]

I watched the crash course lecture from John Green on tuberculosis 2 weeks back and it made me realise how some of my professors are utterly pitiful and ineffective. I remember almost every detail from that video and it made me curious for more.

It contained everything from tuberculosis's history to the modern predicament and that is how I want to learn things. I could spend an eternity if everything is taught this way. Crash course has always been my favourite. Through channels like Crash Course, I ain't limited to a major I can learn everything, and with so good creators too I want to learn everything.

Creators like Kurzgesagt, vertasium, Ted Ed, crash course, and similar are why I pay my internet bill.

I am like Tuco from Bb for these channels, whatever it is man keep it coming. Tight tight tight

[fictionalnormalcy]

You know, I have a far-fetched theory that the original plot line for Season 3 was going to be something with Night Furies.

Strictly because of that solitary image with Viggo opening the Dragon Eye to show the dragons. The place he unlocked to was different then what the Riders had found.

Then I think about the thumbnails for the first two episodes of Season 3, Enemy of My Enemy and Crash Course. They're wrong, as it's images of Astrid on Stormfly and the other being Viggo and Ryker looking up in surprise at what is presumably a SIngetail judging from the shadow.

Both of which didn't happen, at any point. So the fact that something managed to slip by, even if just singular images, and knowing that they were saving the mystery of Night Furies until The Hidden World, I really think that they could've been going in the direction where Viggo wanted to find more Night Furies.

Like come on! The thumbnails were animated! Not just a storyboard!

Something with Night Furies y'all

[gascansposts]

I made this for a friend!! I’m not sure any of this made sense but you essentially practice breaking down references into basic forms to see how they bend and twist, and then put that into your style with a little twist? This is how I tend to stylize them!

[thecrashcourse]

Venture into the deep past of the cosmos with Crash Course Pods: The Universe. In episode one, John Green and Dr. Katie Mack start at the beginning -- the first 60 seconds of the universe 13.8 billion years ago.

Episode one is out now! Listen on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!

[octoberconstellation]

Found on John green’s twitter

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

Stigma and illness

"We do not want to reckon with a world that is merely unfair; where some people get sick, not because they did something wrong but because the world is unjust, and insofar as it is just, it's random.

"And so, we tell ourselves we understand, which too often means creating explanations that blame the sufferer. Stigma is a way of saying 'you deserved this to happen', but implied within the stigma is also 'and I don't deserve it, and so I don't need to worry about it happening to me'.

"Stigma can become a kind of double burden for the sick. In addition to living with the physical and psychological challenges of illness there's the additional challenge of having their humanity discounted. Think of the word universally used in English to describe Tuberculosis patients in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were called 'invalids'. They were literally invalid.

"People living with TB today have told me that fighting the disease was hard, but fighting the stigma of their communities was even harder."

...

"Finally, the origin, or perceived origin of a disease also matters. If an illness is seen to be the result of choice it is much more likely to be stigmatized.

"So for instance, people with major depression are often told to just 'choose to be happier' just as those with substance abuse disorders are told to just 'choose to quit drinking'. And some cancers and heart diseases are stigmatized for resulting from purported choice as well.

"Of course, this is not how biology works. Illness has no moral compass, it does not punish the evil and reward the good, it doesn't know about evil and good. But we want life to be a story that makes sense, which is why, for example, it was commonly believed up until the middle of the 20th century that cancer was caused by things like social isolation, parents were actually told their kids got leukemia because they hadn't been adequately loved as infants.

"If a clear cause and effect isn't present, we will invent one, even if it's cruel."

John Green - The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time

[vampiric-bruce-wayne]

people who love crash course philosophy and/or batman we should really be mutuals

[because how do i explain to anyone else that crash course philosophy is my comfort webseries?]

[sh1ga-to3s]

I really like making fanart for ppl so if you have a turtle in @tmntaucompetition please invade my ask box