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Paow Engverth9 months ago
CrashCourse Math please! It would help alot!

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Danielle Dunsworth2 days ago
Algebra or Trig would be a good start.

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Catty Cat1 week ago
any

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aekazitt7 months ago
I really was disappointed with the video titled 'Environmental Determinism: Crash Course Human Geography #1' though I will say I won't unsubscribe due to it. You guys do great work here and I have been a fan for a long time. It takes a high level of Cognitive Dissonance when an idea that, in layman's terms, disproves racial supremacy in favour of other environmental factors determining the success and shortcomings of cultures and nations can be labelled 'Super Racist' It frightens me even more when these videos are now produced to be used for children's educational curriculum. I understand that the team is diverse with people from different cultural backgrounds, but please aim for a diversity of ideas as well when it comes to content creation. In that way, you may be able to call out certain practices introduced in that video like: -- Poisoning the Well: Saying the ideas discussed are Bad Ideas in the first 30 seconds of episode -- Ad Hominem: Not discussing the merit of the idea, instead choose to draw comparison to some of the Nazi's ideas -- Confuse Hindsight Bias as Disproof of Claim: Miriam Nielson points out a number of times in the video regarding Aristotle and Ellsworth Huntington as having strong bias in determining which environment is best for human progress (no quotations needed.) She twice ended the argument disregarding these claims just by letting the audience know that the claimants put the area they are situated in as the best possible climate without any real attempt to disprove the claim. I am writing to you for the first time here as a plea. Please bring back good contents. You have been my go-to provider of, not only educational videos, but a strong intellectual community. Your Future Earth Sandwich Co-Chef Sitt

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aekazitt4 months ago
+Cara Mazzola Please elaborate.

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Cara Mazzola4 months ago
That's not what ad hominem means

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Niu Niu10 months ago
when do we get Computer Science???

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Danuki L3 months ago
Crash Course Com Sci with Taran Van Hemert! :)

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Ishai Karu7 months ago
oh come on it would be fun

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FaerieReel7 months ago
I have loved Crash course since the beginning, but having smacked into the ideologue running the new "Human Geography" course I'm not sure I want to stay with it. I have very high expectations of the Green Brothers, and this woman pushing her unscientific, Marxist garbage does not meet the excellence of this channel. The Green Brother's have always admitted to their political biases and that it sometimes tilts the perspective of the soft science videos, but this person is completely dishonest. If this course continues under its current host I will sadly have to unsubscribe.

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M Capponi3 months ago
http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/geography/facultyandstaff/airriesschristopher this is the writer of the episode

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Dylan Schultz3 months ago
+FaerieReel Ok

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intrepidape7 months ago
After the complete bollocks that was your 'Environmental Determinism: Crash Course Human Geography #1' opinion piece, I am choosing to not watch any more of your videos. I don't feel that I can trust CrashCourse as an objective source of information any more. Un-subscribe...

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Vale Pizarro3 months ago
wtf

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Jurij Fedorov7 months ago
I agree. I don't know what went wrong. It wasn't a busy schedule as they say it was because these were very basic mistakes that no one in the social science field would ever make. It was clearly written by someone who has not read the books they were talking about or had any understanding of the basic theories in the field itself. I think they might have hired some layman to read up on the topic on Wikipedia or something. It's not just a basic mistake to make, it was horrible from end to end.

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Melchior Wiseman7 months ago
A little while ago, I actually considered signing up for the patreon of this channel. It has some really legit videos that are interesting and pretty cool. But lately....not so much. Im still kind of enraged at the Environmental Determinism one. God damn it. It seriously is some straight up dishonesty. I cant even stress that. FFS.

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Alanna R.7 months ago
They took it down, and John admitted fault. They're reworking the series presently.

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alvin jones7 months ago
its pretty easy to slip the arsnic..uhm..i mean, uhm, the politics in one people get used to being spoonfed. I use this channel for its great science but the sad thing is that many kids will get their political view slipped in without ever knowing how or examining it- just like C.S. Lewis said in "the abolition of man" . SOme things really are better learned thru books where the critical thnking is far more engaged then when watching a screen

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Giacomo Locati7 months ago
Don't you guys think that it's time to address the bias on this channel? I just really love the educational content you are getting out, but this is still a significant problem I fear.

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Smart Beauty1 month ago
Please explain what you perceive as bias? I am a student to learn and am gathering information before I make judgements. Perhaps, I have missed the bias?

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Luciano almeida filho5 months ago
What is this bias were talking about?

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Ryan Acorn7 months ago
Thanks for all the great content all of you have worked so very hard on. It means a lot that you have gone and made it your profession to try and make the world a better place through education. Don't let human geography get you down. We all make mistakes sometimes, it's part of being human, what shows real character is to get back up, dust yourself off, and keep on going. I look forward to your upcoming work.

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Smart Beauty1 month ago
What happened with human geography?

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Robert LVN7 months ago (edited)
I agree with Ryan. A good series by imperfect people prone to make mistakes. The Human Geography video was trash. The Narrator did not even refute Guns, Germs and Steel based on anything other than "I think that's racist", but let's remember that the impetus is on us to have a healthy level of skepticism and research the facts before believing a story and I think most if not all of their other videos are well researched.

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Rufus10 months ago
It would be nice a Crash Course Linguistic!!!! :D

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Kathryn Anshutz8 months ago
Linguistics would be wonderful. It easily ties in with psychology, sociology and national cultures.

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Gigi Voyiatzis8 months ago
That'd be amazing, I totally agree

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Spudnova7 months ago
Crash Course just crashed. Tends to happen when you have the ruler of the Akkadian Empire completely debunk your video on environmental determinism.

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Spudnova7 months ago
Axel1617 Hahahaha or that as well.

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Axel16177 months ago
Unless you are......the Mongols.

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jay24july7 months ago
Miriam Nielsen needs to take a course in logical fallacies. The human geography #1 was severely lacking in substance and heavily weighted in opinion. The video only used a small portion of the data produced by the the selected scientists. A clear example of the sharpshooter fallacy. And to top it all off with a quote by a Marxist professor James Blaut with out explaining his bias. In all this video would have been fine with the title "Marxists don't like Jared Diamond" that's all we got from this video.

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jay24july7 months ago
i just watched John greens response video. Very respectable retraction and i think he upheld a standard that i have always loved about Crash course. My comment about Miriam Nielsen was incorrect. I stand by the comment but it i should have realized it was the writing staff not her.

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Dominic Manester7 months ago
+Alanna R. Just makes you wonder what kids of dishonest or closet racist people they must have working for them.

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Sullivan Hodges10 months ago
Could y'all do a series on religion?

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Smart Beauty1 month ago
But we are here to learn right? We should not be afraid of ideas.

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Spectrobits7 months ago
Well, HuGe came VERY late to the party

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Colonel Dick Faggotson7 months ago
You had a great channel until you started the M A R X I S T P R O P A G A N D A 6 days ago, shame on you.

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Lambert Lim1 month ago
The propaganda here has been around for ages, man.

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Orkun Çınar4 months ago
Go and watch Seeker Daily

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SirRandomMonkey3 months ago
I would love to see a Crash Course on Music Theory.

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Megan Hutchison3 months ago
ME TOO!!!!

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Kayleigh Cook3 months ago
Is it terribly nerdy that I've wondered what a curriculum for that would be?

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Festive_10 months ago
Crash Course Linguistics anyone?

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Dubious Claims7 months ago
After they miserably failed by stating that a non-human ape has actually developed language? So... you want to learn BS that bad, huh? O.K. Good luck with that pop-science trip. Better luck coming back to the real world and actually doing an effort to learn stuff.

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Harshil Bodalwala10 months ago
+++++ I want that so bad

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貓主席7 months ago
I would also like to see a Crash Course on avoiding political bias and marxist propaganda in educational videos. I think it would be a topic that both your audience and your writers yourself could learn from.

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Spiked-Wall Man7 months ago
"marxist propaganda" I don't know, but I'm pretty sure you use this term wrong o_o

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Soopermensch7 months ago
You should really take down those Human Geography videos before they ruin your good reputation.

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Shankar Sivarajan7 months ago (edited)
+alvin jones Their world history series, and the first two seasons of literature were brilliant!

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Samaritan7 months ago
Stop making social science videos. Stick to hard science that you can actually present unbiased evidence for, guys. You know, that stuff you became YouTube-famous for? To think you cancelled computer science in exchange for that human geography drivel.

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Sam Haley3 months ago
Computer Science will start next week :D

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Dani - whose full name shall not be disclosed5 months ago
'Hard' as in 'unchangeable', which, by your own description of History, would make your argument self-contradictory. To make it easier - the same 'hard' as in 'hardcoding', 'hardsubs' and even 'hardware'. To say something is hardcoded means that it can't be easily changed (unless if tampered with at source code level); hardsubs are subtitles that are embedded directly to the frames of a video and do not come from separate data (usually a .srt or .sub for pc users that is played alongside a .avi or .mp4 video file). I guess 'hardware' follows the same etymology, but I can't come up with a proper justification so I just won't.

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Julian Alberto Arce Sánchez7 months ago
Comments disabled on latest video on Human Georgraphy? I understand that there are maybe very harsh comments, since the debate regarding enviromental determinism (and let's be real, is more about Guns, Germs and Steel and CGP Grey's video about Americapox) can get nasty... but better to try to moderate... right? Also, keep up the good work, and best regards to both writers and host of Human Geography.

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autechre1137 months ago
Unsubscribed as well, after I saw the 'Environmental Determinism: Crash Course Human Geography #1' . It amazes me that you publish this rubbish on your channel...

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Alanna R.7 months ago
They deleted it, admitted fault, and are reworking the series.

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