Still from 'That's Why Carbon Is A Tramp: Crash Course Biology #1' by CrashCourse on YouTube
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Today, we’d like to introduce you to CrashCourse, a YouTube channel offering rapid-fire educational monologues, one 15-minute jolt at a time.
Subjects range from world history and literature to ecology and biology and your brain is helped along this informative road by the fast-talking VlogBrothers (or Green brothers, if you want to use the family name): John, who’s currently best-known as the author of The Fault in Our Stars, and biochemist Hank, who stars in our selected video.
The video below is the first instalment in a crash course on biology, which starts with a chemistry lesson. Confused? You soon won’t be. Instead, you’ll have a new-found knowledge and respect for the atoms filling the world around you, a mad genius named Gilbert Lewis, and one particularly accommodating element.
