The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends the series as a funny, coherent high-school-level overview of world history that teaches a lot in a few hours.
What it is
The first episode of Crash Course World History, in which John Green covers the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and how it shaped civilization. It is delivered fast and with jokes.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 5 different months, 2015 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec dunk010 · 2018-09 · on “Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?”
I'm quite surprised that nobody has suggested Crash Course. The first one they did - Crash Course World History by John Green - is really great, and I personally found both endearing and funny ( [this video] ). It's not advanced material, mostly high-school level, but you've got to crawl before you can walk, and it can help to fill in some missing spots if you have them, or give a high-level overview or recap in an entertaining way. Example: I'd done basic biology, but taken instead chemistry and physics (where I was, you only did all three if you wanted to go into medicine). I used Crash Course Biology ( [LINK] ) to back-fill my knowledge before studying a masters in Bioinformatics.
Strong rec runyor · 2019-02 · on “The Decline of Historical Thinking”
Interesting is also that you can learn history much better outside of school. In contrast to education institutions youtubers for instance usually succeed at presenting the stuff in an interesting fashion. And if you listen to these kind of presentations in several languages or from diverse political influenced sources then you can also get a rather objective overview. This series taught me in a few hours what I didn't learn in school over years: [this video]
Recommends jhaand · 2015-09 · on “The World We Have Lost: On the Silk Road Roots of Our Global System”
If you're interesting in this kind of history. I can recommend the youtube series: Crash Course - World history. [this video] Only 42 videos of around 12 minutes. Gave me a good brush up on history.
Recommends afarrell · 2015-10 · on “How Bernie Sanders Tech Volunteers Code the Bern”
I'm afraid that this risks sounding terribly terribly condescending and I don't want it to, but I truly intend the following to be helpful... > that thinks too-logically about politics There is a reason Justice Oliver Wendell Homes said "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Humans are complex and if you try to define a set of axioms (or special forms) and build up and understanding from that, it is all too easy to follow your line of thought past massively lethal flaws. In your case, there are very good reasons why we don't give the president all of the powers that are currently allocated to congress. It is very very tempting to lay out specific ones for you. Othe
Recommends afarrell · 2016-10 · on “Any online apps to learn history/ geography/ economics (serious stuff)?”
For learning historical narratives, Youtube is honestly pretty great. Crash Course[1] is good for a broad overview. It presents a fairly coherent narrative and the advantage of this is that you can then relate any other historical narrative to this skeleton. Extra History[2] is a good example of a channel that presents narratives of specific incidents. If you are looking for a channel focusing on one particular period from lots of different angles, The Great War is not bad[3]. But none of this is actually going to teach you the skill of inquiry and skeptically reading different competing historical narratives. You kinda do need a class for that. A friend of mine is building a startup to make
Cites KraftKacke · 2021-01 · on “Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?”
I recently learned, people worked less when we were hunter/gatherer, had more leisure time. I don't want to skip on modern medicine and shit, but it does make you think... [*] [this video]