This week, we’re talking about theories of Myth. We’ll look at the different ways mythology has been studied in the last couple of millenia, and talk about the diffeent ways people have interpreted myth, academically. Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at Thanks to the following Patrons for […]
Tag: crashcourse
The Plate Tectonics Revolution: Crash Course Geography #19
Today we’re going to tell the story of a quiet revolution in the 1960s that shifted our entire understanding of how the Earth works. We currently believe that the Earth’s broken outer shell rises from the mantle and folds back in – kind of like a dance of creative destruction and reconstruction – giving us […]
What Are Rocks and How Do They Form? Crash Course Geography #18
From towering mountains to pebbles along a river, the Earth is made of a huge variety of rocks. In today’s episode, we’re going to follow the rock cycle of a piece of granite in the Himalayan mountains, and as you’ll see, every rock has a far-reaching story to tell often millions of years in the […]