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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 personall
by dunk010 8y ago
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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB...). 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4&list=PL3EED4C1D684D3ADF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4&list=PL3EED4C1D6...) to back-fill my knowledge before studying a masters in Bioinformatics.
- manfredo 8y agoI'd categorize crash course as "edutainment" along similar lines as Dan Carlin's hardcore history. The series doesn't really teach topics and skills so much as it presents information in an entertaining format. Not to mention , like Dan Carlin's shows, Crash Course often puts forth popular culture views of history that have are no longer accepted by experts (one example of the top of my head is the claim that Communist Chinese forces did more to resist the Japanese in WWII than the KMT, another was the Crash Course geography debacle that got the whole series cancelled).