We'd love to hear from you!
Here at Crash Course we love to get curious about the world around us. Here's a few things our team is curious about at the moment:
Katie (Production Coordinator): One of my current curiosities is pop culture analysis through the lens of queer history! It's amazing how many rich stories are hiding in plain sight once you learn to decode the symbolism in context.
Meghan (Editorial Director): I learned there are invasive hippopotamuses in Colombia, which is wild!!
Jaime (Staff Writer): I'm obsessed with the 23,000-year-old footprints at White Sands pushing back the timeline of when people arrived in the Americas! And the incredible little moments they capture, like signs of prehistoric kids playing in a giant ground sloth's tracks.
Gary (Script Editor): Bay Leafs! I've been making a lot of soup lately, and almost every recipe calls for the inclusion of a Bay Leaf. But I had no idea /why/. Everyone's always said they increase the flavor, but it turns out they were originally included in medieval stews because they were thought to have medicinal purposes. The jury is out on if they actually "enhance" flavor, but most blind taste tests can't tell a difference.
Annie (Associate Editor): As a writer and general creative person, I'm really curious about AI and how we as a society are going to respond to things like machine-made art. Also I'm always reading any nonfiction about friendship i can get my hands on because it's such a fascinating, important, and understudied topic!
Brooke (Communications Coordinator): I'm planning a trip to Brazil next year and I'm curious about samba and its history!
Tell us what you're curious about currently!
Comments (18)
more college level STEM! also..more in-depth courses (plural) in mythology like of one individual culture (per course). thatd be chill af. the world
I've got family members that are interested in discreet math.
Hello! I’m an anthropologist in SoCal, and I use several of the CrashCourse videos in my classes. Thank you so much for those! I’m curious if y’all can do a video on what makes meteors green when they fall to earth? About six or seven years ago, I was sitting in my backyard in the late morning, around 11 AM I think, facing south/SE, and I saw a brilliant green fireball streaking across the sky with a slight donwwards trajectory towards the north. It broke up into smaller pieces and flamed out, turning reddish orange as it did so, and it was gone before it went below the tree/house line. I’ve tried to find video of it since, or news reports, but the only ones I can find are of a different one that occurred in California at night time. Regardless, it was really cool to see, and I’m wondering… why was it green? Thanks! (Note… I also posted this on the SciShow Patreon page because I wasn’t sure which one it was a better question for.)
History of food (what people ate, where they ate it, how they ate it, etc)
Computational science would be awesome
this semester i have a course that is called tumor biology or cell philosophy and it’s about parallels between certain characteristics of cancer and human society.. for example how the cancer cells refuse to die and how we talk and think about death in our society, also somehow refusing it, making it taboo.. i think that’s pretty interesting
Right now, with nursing school coming to the very end for me, I'm curious about the NCLEX. I would love, love, love to see a series on the classes in nursing school as they apply to the NCLEX because not all nursing programs are created equal (mine's on the verge of losing accreditation due to poor NCLEX pass rates).
I would love a course on the Middle East alone, especially the history of the Jewish/Palestinian conflicts
SortedFood just did a video where they blind taste-tested with and without bay leaves, and despite the normals' protestations that they don't do anything... their results suggested that they kind of do, though it's hard to pick out exactly what. Also hard same, Katie, hard same. Pop culture is so fascinating to dig into and analyze, and it so often gets swept aside as lowbrow and mundane, but what could possibly be mundane about the things that most affect and influenceand reflect our entire society?
is the first derivative of the rate of change on tides thes same as the first derrivative of the rate of change in daylight?
I’m curious as to why we think there’s more than one black hole….i mean, what does an object approaching infinite space AND time look like to an observer that isn’t?
Sign me up to learn about invasive hippos! Current curiosity is climate impact on pushing growing seasons, diseases and pests, into higher elevations. As I type that out, I’m realizing it’s a pretty horrifying curiosity.
I'm pretty fascinated at the moment by the fall tornado season. People ignore it, but it's still very dangerous.
I would be thrilled to watch content on any of those subjects, but WHAT THE HECK about bay leaves? I refuse. Bay leaves go in all my soups and red sauces, they have a SMELL, how could they not add to the flavor?!! I would LOVE to learn about pop culture through the lens of queer history and hippopotamuses and 23,000-year-old footprints and generative AI and samba!
I wonder if bay leaves work as a slight thickening agent like sarsaparilla. Sarsaparilla, I think, was used as a thickening agent and mixed into salves for similar reasons. I could be misremembering that, so double check.
Of the options, I'm most interested in the generative AI topic
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Ok, I'm reeling from bay leaves being essentially just for vibes