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DESCRIPTION: We're obsessed with being efficient. But is it really all it's cracked up to be?
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:51 - Part 1: What is efficiency? 16:58 - Part 2: The Waste Problem 33:43 - Part 3: The Effectiveness Problem 56:58 - Part 4: Where do we go from here? 01:05:01 - Outro
In Defense of InefficiencyZoe Bee2023-03-25 | Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: wren.co/start/zoebee1m The first 100 to sign up will get their first month of the subscription covered by Wren for free!
DESCRIPTION: We're obsessed with being efficient. But is it really all it's cracked up to be?
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 02:51 - Part 1: What is efficiency? 16:58 - Part 2: The Waste Problem 33:43 - Part 3: The Effectiveness Problem 56:58 - Part 4: Where do we go from here? 01:05:01 - Outro
This video was sponsored by WrenYouTube and the Death of Media LiteracyZoe Bee2024-09-02 | Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: milanote.com/zoebee
Media literacy is dead. ...or so I thought. Come with me as I recount how I spent months of my life trying to understand media literacy, along with lots of help from my friends. It's a big one.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:42 - Stuff is complicated 12:37 - Figuring it out 24:01 - Systems suck 44:37 - What you can do 58:30 - What can I do? 01:18:41 - Outro, Bloopers & Extras
SOURCES: ------ “Media Literacy in the Modern Age” by Cynthia Vinney, PhD on verywellmind (verywellmind.com/what-is-media-literacy-5214468) ------ “The Current State of Media & Children” by MediaLiteracyNow (medialiteracynow.org/challenge/what-is-media-literacy) ------ The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People by Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective ------ National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) (namle.org/resources/core-principles) ------ “Analysis of definitions of media literacy” by W. James Potter in Journal of Media Literacy Education (https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol14/iss2/3/) ------ "Media Literacy is cringe" tweet (https://x.com/SimpNeelix/status/1805427533015326900) ------ Wired for Story by Lisa Cron ------ "In Defense of Inefficiency" by @zoe_bee - youtu.be/7-_rK0KkB6k?si=S9mjUShP5G9oIzrQ ------ Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson ------ Shortform (shortform.com) ------ Blinkist (blinkist.com) ------ Magibook (magibook.ai) ----------- Magibook Ad (reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1drgeb4/it_is_so_over_goddamn) ------ "we're doomed" by @EvilPinely - youtu.be/yvVsH8ZCOV8?si=LukrHqSXJ5fzI4A5 ------ "The Problem with AI Rewriting Books" by @PosiWritesStories - youtu.be/-nW_yvh-knY?si=N7AnbEV5rueCqWfN ------ “Copium Addicts: What ‘misinformation’ is actually usually about” by Mike Caulfield on The End(s) of Argument (mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/copium-addicts-what-misinformation) ------ A Firehose of Falsehood by Teri Kanefield and Pat Dorian ------ “How Do you Trust?: On Infrastructural Meaning-making and the Need for Self-reflection” by Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin in Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age (https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/69810710/107_112_Haider_o_Sundin_9_september.pdf) ------ Know-it-all Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture by Michael P. Lynch ------ "You're Watching Video Essays Wrong" by @LegalKimchi (youtu.be/ZlK51P0vuc4?si=sH8lJLJ6L24nGhHt)
(yes I know I mispronounced "panacea")How PragerU Infiltrated Public SchoolsZoe Bee2024-06-09 | Stay informed on breaking news and practice critical thinking by subscribing through my link https://ground.news/zoebee to get 40% off unlimited access this month with the Vantage Subscription.
I took PragerU's Financial Literacy class so you don't have to. But what I discovered was so much worse than just a bad online course. So come with me as we explore how PragerU keeps making its way into schools and what that means for the future of PragerU, public education, and democracy.
00:00 - Opening 04:47 - How PragerU Stole Education 28:20 - Outro, Poem, BloopersFascism and the Failure of ImaginationZoe Bee2024-05-09 | Use code zoebee at incogni.com/zoebee to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.
People seem to struggle with imagination, but WHY? Let's talk about it.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 04:11 - We Suck 07:03 - Society Sucks 11:19 - Nothing is Real 16:15 - Play is Praxis 24:14 - Outro & Bloopers
SOURCES: ------ What's Left of Us (D&D Game): youtube.com/@thejaycorn ------ Grading Video: youtu.be/fe-SZ_FPZew ------ PragerU Lessons Video: youtu.be/4NAiPYaogCw ------ PragerU's Econ 101: prageru.com/cashcourse ------ Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin ------ The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design by Eric Zimmerman ------ Out of Our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson ------ Play by Dr. Stuart Brown ------ Imagination: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei ------ Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson (quoting Peter Gray) ------ TTRPG Resources: ------------ "An Exploratory Study on the Players of Dungeons and Dragons" by David Louis Wilson ------------ "Critical Fail - Addressing problematic designs in table-top role-playing games for narrative therapy and community wellbeing." by Adric Polkinghorne, Dr. Jane Turner, Dr. Manuela Taboada, and Dr. Jeremy Kerr ------------ "Gaming Intentionally: A Literature Review of the Viability of Role-Playing Games as Drama-Therapy-Informed Interventions" by Jonathan Mendoza ------------ "Let Your Clients Fight Dragons: A Rapid Evidence Assessment regarding the Therapeutic Utility of ‘Dungeons & Dragons’" by Sören Henrich & Rachel Worthington ------------ "Table-top role-playing games as a therapeutic intervention with adults to increase social connectedness" by Matthew S. Abbott, Kimberly A. Stauss & Allen F. Burnett ------ CRiT Awards: critawards.org
FURTHER READING: ------ Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey ------ "Ipad's Imagination Failure" by @ThatMakesSenseToMe (youtu.be/uLNwpGzedTo?si=T_tUT7OEe3k_Qwzf)
SPECIAL THANKS TO: ------ my D&D friends for being so supportive and kind and also laughing at all my jokes
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my Warrior Cats Podcast! ➤ art19.com/shows/the-only-warrior-cats-podcast ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewPlagiarism and the Death of the Video EssayZoe Bee2024-03-09 | Practice critical thinking and stay informed on breaking news by subscribing through my link https://ground.news/zoebee to receive 30% off the Vantage Subscription which is about $5/month for unlimited access to all the features needed to improve your news consumption habits. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plagiarism is big news. After hbomberguy's video discussing YouTubers like Illuminaughtii, James Somerton, and the Internet Historian, on top of the cases of Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT professor Neri Oxman, it seems like we can't trust anyone.
But what causes plagiarism, and what should we do about it? What does it say about us that we love talking about it so much? Are video essays as a genre dead? And where do we go from here?
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 1:31 - Breaking Trust 7:27 - Asking the Question 14:52 - A Word from Our Sponsor 18:43 - Loving to Hate 27:57 - Asking Why 41:28 - Rebuilding Trust 56:51 - Outro & Bloopers
Music (in order of appearance): ------ Title Screen - Animal Crossing New Horizons ------ Buy Mode 1 - The Sims Soundtrack ------ Summer (Nature's Crescendo) - Stardew Valley OST ------ Minecraft - Minecraft ------ Rito Village (Night) - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ------ Buy Mode 1 - The Sims Soundtrack ------ Treasured Memories - Kingdom Hearts Original Soundtrack
Public education is under attack, and it feels like the attacks are coming from everywhere. In this video, we dive into the actual, literal conspiracy underneath the attacks on education. Along the way, I explore common ideas about education, debunk those ideas, and offer a hopeful conclusion defending public education.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - There's a War On 07:09 - It's Bigger Than You Think 12:27 - What's Their Motive? 24:15 - What We Can Do About It 32:04 - Schools Aren't Businesses 47:39 - Getting to Work 53:50 - Outro & Bloopers
PragerU just became a verified educational vendor in Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma, so I read all of their lesson plans to see what they're offering teachers. (Un)surprisingly, what they're offering is terrible, but maybe not for the reasons you'd think. Join me on a journey through PragerU's awful lesson plans, as we discover exactly what they're trying to teach kids across America.
00:00 - Part 1 14:21 - Part 2 26:21 - Outro & Cat Bloopers
Let's investigate the apocalypse, and see what we can learn about ourselves, the world, and the power of hope.
00:00 - Intro 05:36 - Defining the Apocalypse 11:01 - The Myth of Apocalyptic Thinking 17:34 - The Myth of Preppers 24:30 - The Myth of Human Nature 37:22 - The Other Myth 44:04 - Three Ways to Change the World 58:29 - Conclusion 01:01:38 - Outro & Poem
SOURCES: ------ #doomsdayprepper: Analysing the online prepper community on Instagram1, by Burgert Senekal in journal for cultural studies ------ “The Optimism of Uncertainty” by Howard Zinn ------ A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit ------ Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture, by Katherine E. Sugg ------ Apocalypse and Post-Politics, by Mary Manjikian ------ Apocalypse Man, by Casey Ryan Kelly ------ Bracing for the Apocalypse, by Anna Maria Bounds ------ Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times, by Richard G. Mitchell Jr. ------ “Elites and Panic: More to Fear than Fear Itself”, by Lee Clarke and Caron Chess ------ Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit ------ “Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3%” by Michael Godhe in Routledge Guide to Dystopias in Popular Culture ------ “How to survive the end of the future: Preppers, pathology, and the everyday crisis of insecurity”, by Kezia Barker, in the TIBG ------ Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman ------ Imaginable: How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything–even things that seem impossible today, by Jane McGonigal ------ Interview with Béla Tarr, Cineuropa ------ “Liberal Prepping as Apocalyptic Eco-Religion” by Juli Gittinger, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture ------ Life After Doomsday, by Bruce D. Clayton ------ “Making the End Times Great Again” by Carlen Lavigne in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction ------ “Obamageddon: Fear, the Far Right, and the Rise of “Doomsday” Prepping in Obama’s America” by Michael F. Mills in Journal of American Studies ------ “Panic: myth or reality?” by Lee Clarke ------ Preparedness Now! An Emergency Survival Guide by Aton Edwards ------ Survival of the Richest, by Douglas Rushkoff ------ Team Human, by Douglas Rushkoff ------ Terrorism and Disaster: New Threats, New Ideas, ed. Lee Clarke ------ The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness, by Betsy Hartman ------ The Ends of the World, by Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ------ The Last Myth: What The Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America, by Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles ------ The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, by Sean Brodrick ------ The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert ------ The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril, by James Altucher & Douglas R. Sease ------ We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope, by Steven Charleston ------ Who Would You Kill to Save the World? by Claire Colebrook
00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Red Pill Rhymes 08:13 - Society of Classical Poets 14:05 - An American Conservative 19:17 - What I Learned 29:20 - Credits & Cat Bloopers
Art by Aud McName Main episode music by Neil (of The Leftist Cooks)
* SUPPORT THE SHOW: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewA big announcement...Zoe Bee2023-05-02 | Introducing The Only Warrior Cats Podcast, a bi-weekly podcast from your favorite video essayists, where we make our way through the entire Warrior Cats series, one book at a time. Our first episode covering Into the Wild will be premiering on May 1st, and you can find it here on YouTube and wherever you find podcasts (and get an episode early by joining Nebula!) The show is great for newcomers and Warriors veterans alike, so we hope to see you on May 1st! #FireAloneCanSaveOurPodcast
Adjuncts and other contingent faculty make up more than half of all higher ed teachers. That's a problem. Let's talk about why.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:08 - Commercial Break 03:12 - Who are they? 06:07 - How much are they paid? 13:11 - This hurts everyone. 19:06 - What caused it? 24:56 - What can we do about it? 28:33 - Outro & Poem
Is AI-generated writing *real*? My last video was written by a machine learning algorithm that had been trained on my previous video scripts, and while I was making that video, I kept thinking about this question: What is the difference between that AI’s script and my scripts that I write?
Let's find out!
00:00 - Intro 02:15 - How AI Writes 05:45 - The Context Problem 10:09 - The Structure Problem 15:15 - So What? 23:09 - Conclusion
Creative writing is hard, and with NaNoWriMo just around the corner, it can be even more daunting. So, here are 6 writing exercises I've used as a writer and teacher to help boost my creativity!
00:00 - Intro 00:46 - Indescribable 03:02 - Antonyms Attract 05:49 - The Exquisite Corpse 07:58 - Question & Answer 10:36 - Wren Ad 12:24 - Analogy Profile 14:43 - One Into Another 17:18 - Conclusion, Outro, & Poem
(this video was sponsored by Wren)Willy Wonka: Capitalism for Kids!Zoe Bee2022-09-23 | Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: wren.co/start/zoebee - the first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!
Willy Wonka is a beloved children's fiction character. But is he actually as sweet as he appears? Or is there a bitter darkness that lurks beneath his sugary surface?
Let's talk about it.
CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 04:05 - Part 1: The Candyman 09:00 - Part 2: The Tycoon 17:25 - Part 3: The Trickster 25:22 - Part 4: The God 37:50 - What Does it All Mean? 58:53 - Conclusion 01:02:56 - Outro, Poem, & Bloopers
Primary Sources: --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book, 1964) --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game, 1985) --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film, 2005) --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (video game, 2005) --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Broadway musical, 2013) --- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride (Alton Towers, England) --- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (book, 1972) --- Charlie in the White House (book, unreleased) --- Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka (stage musical, 2004) --- The Golden Ticket (opera, 2010) --- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (film, 1971) --- Wonka (film, 2023 [TBD])
SECONDARY SOURCES: --- "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Other Excremental Visions" by Hamida Bosmajian --- CRITICAL APPROACHES TO FOOD IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (ed. Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard) ------ "A Consuming Tradition: Candy and Socio-religious Identity Formation in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Robert M. Kachur --- "Deconstructing Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: Race, Labor, and the Changing Depictions of the Oompa-Loompas" by Chryl Corbin --- "Economic Liberty 'In A World Of Pure Imagination': A Theoretical Analysis Of Willy Wonka, Natural Rights, and The New Age Of Innovation" by Tammy M. Eick --- ROALD DAHL AND PHILOSOPHY: A Little Nonsense Now and Then (ed. Jacob M. Held) ------ "Epicurus and the Chocolate Factory" by Benjamin A. Rider ------ "'He Will Be Altered Quite a Bit': Discipline and Punishment in Willy Wonka’s Factory" by Marc Napolitano ------ "On Getting Our Just Desserts: Willy Wonka, Immanuel Kant, and the Summum Bonum" by Jacob M. Held ------ "'Who Is This Crazy Man?': Willy Wonka’s Uneasy Predicament" by Cam Cobb ------ "Willy Wonka and the Imperial Chocolate Factory" by Ron Novy
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00:00 - Intro 01:55 - The Old Pipeline 05:39 - The New Pipeline 13:22 - What Do We Do About It? 19:40 - Outro & Poem
* Sources * ----- "The Kids are Alt-Right: An Introduction to PragerU and its role in Radicalization in the United States" (Dickinson and Cowin, 2022) ----- "CRT-Reactionism and the Role of PragerU in a Contemporary Moral Panic" (Dickinson and Cowin, 2022) ----- "Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube" (Lewis, 2018 - datasociety.net/library/alternative-influence) ----- PragerU 2020 Annual Report ----- PragerU 2021 Annual Report ----- PragerU 2021 Bi-Annual Report ----- "PragerU and You" Booklet
* Description: * We say we love "realistic" fiction like Batman, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Horizon: Forbidden West. We say we love when our characters "act like real people" and "have realistic dialogue." But it's worth asking: Are these things ACTUALLY realistic? And if not, is realism even worth trying to capture?
* chapters: * 00:00:00 - Intro: Concrete Monsters 00:04:17 - Part 1: Using Realism 00:10:34 - Part 2: Investigating Realism 00:17:27 - Part 3: Criticizing Realism 00:40:32 - Intermission 00:43:17 - Part 4: Replacing Realism 00:59:16 - Conclusion: Sounds Good 01:08:39 - Outro & Poem
* Sources: * ---Books ------“Gamic Realism”: Player, Perception and Action in Video Game Play - Hanna Sommerseth ------Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds - Jesper Juul ------Hunting the Dark Knight - Will Brooker ------Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist - James Gurney ------Maps of the Imagination - Peter Turchi ------Method and Madness - Alice LaPlante ------reality tv: realism and revelation - Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn ------Rules of Play - Eric Zimmerman and Katie Salen ------The American Monomyth - Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence ------The Militarization of Childhood - ed. J. Marshall Beier ------The Rules of Play - Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman ------What is Cinema? - Andre Bazin
---Articles ------“A Grounded Investigation of Game Immersion” - Emily Brown and Paul Cairns ------“Foley Sounds vs Real Sounds” - Stefano Trento and Amalia De Götzen ------“Footsteps with character: the art and craft of Foley” - Benjamin Wright ------“Making fictions sound real – On film sound, perceptual realism and genre” - Birger Langkjær ------“Perceived realism and the CSI-effect” - Logan A. Ewanation, Susan Yamamoto, Jordan Monnink & Evelyn M. Maeder ------“Reading Realism: Audiences’ Evaluations fo the Reality of Media Texts” - Alice Hall ------“Realism in FIFA? How social realism enabled platformed racism in a video game” - Sam Srauy and John Cheney-Lippold ------“Selling Marvel's Cinematic Superheroes through Militarization” - Brett Pardy ------“Skeleton Keys: Teaching the Fiction of Narrative Truth” - Douglas P. Felter ------“Social Realism in Gaming” - Alexander R. Galloway ------“The One Measure of True Love Is: You Can Insult the Other” (Interview) - Sabine Reul and Thomas Deichman ------“The Perceived Realism of African American Portrayals on Television” - Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter ------“Videogames of the oppressed: critical thinking, education, tolerance and other trivial issues” - Gonzalo Frasca
* Further Watching: * ---"How Animal Sounds Are Made For Movies And TV | Movies Insider" - Movie Insider (youtube.com/watch?v=l2WCrXc7J-I) ---"Does Representation Matter?" - Legal Kimchi (youtu.be/e93Uc1_H6Nw)
(disclaimer: This video was sponsored by Wren.)How I Became a Minecraft Scam ArtistZoe Bee2022-04-16 | Minecraft is a hugely popular game, but it also hides a seedy underbelly: The world of knockoff, bootleg kids' books. Come with me as we explore the dark world of kids' content, and examine how people take advantage of this market just to make a quick buck.
00:00 - Opening 00:35 - The Video 03:11 - The Book 09:40 - The Problem 21:50 - The Solution 24:26 - Outro & Poem
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I am a video essayist and writing teacher here to analyze and discuss the steps I take to create my videos, in the hopes of providing a roadmap to help any aspiring video essayists enter this burgeoning virtual space!
* Chapters: * 00:00 - Skit and Intro 01:14 - Who Are You? 02:57 - Stop Trying to Take Down Capitalism in 25 Minutes 06:36 - Not Another Lootbox Video 09:49 - Find the Kernel 13:38 - Strip on Stage 17:53 - Analogies are Salty 22:06 - Don’t Write Like You’re Writing 28:02 - This is YouTube 31:36 - Conclusion 33:17 - Outro and Poem
* Creators and Videos Referenced (in general order of appearance) *
* Art: * ---All the animations were by Aud, whose work can be found at audmcname.com !
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewWhich Pokémon Professor Would be the Best REAL Professor?Zoe Bee2022-02-19 | Greetings, PokéFans! Zoe Bee here, and today we're going to be answering the question "Would the Pokémon Professors actually be good professors?" To answer this, I'll be rating each main series Professor based on 4 criteria, and then ranking them on a Pokémon Professor Tier List.
Enjoy!
00:00 - Intro & Criteria 01:33 - Professor Oak 04:23 - Professor Elm 06:35 - Professor Birch 08:40 - Professor Rowan 10:39 - Professor Juniper 13:21 - Professor Sycamore 16:45 - Professor Kukui 19:00 - Professor Magnolia 20:43 - Professor Sonia 22:33 - Professor Laventon 24:18 - Conclusion 25:00 - Outro & Poem
* Sources: * ---Bulbapedia ---.........and my personal encyclopedic knowledge of Pokémon...
Some of the Patron names were cut off in the video credits, so here is a list of the wonderful Patrons who were missed in the video!
(◕ω◕✿) 5eMagic.Shop A Socialist Hobgoblin A_tasty_snack A3HeadedMunkey Abby Ace, the Spacecase Protease Adam Adrian Rădulescu ÆtherialTea Akita Fishikiyama Al Sweigart Albert Lin Alex Bryant Alex Grafe Alex Prum Alex Riemer Alexander Gruber Alnarra Alyona Zasimova Amber Skye Engelmann Amy S Anders Petersen Angel A Rodriguez Camacho Anthon Svensson Anthony Dungan Anthony Miano Arietta & Annastasia Rose arkas Arnar Sigurðarson Artem Vasenin Ash Aubrey Vaughn Autumn Kelsey Avi Awkward Enby Ayelmar Azne B bacon_blob Barry Donnelly Bart LaFaso Becky Meacham Ben Snow Ben Wood Bert BJ Hanssen Björn Kähler Bonnie Lockwood Bram Colijn brandon spagnuolo Brent Amersbach Brett Swanson broonie Byron Callan c rick Cecil Decker Cen Cent Chase H Chempathetic Fallacy Chloe Chris Kearns-McCoy Christoffer Woodard Christopher Bower Christopher Hunter Clinton Freeman ComradeVanti Conor Lazarou consilium Coreen Montagna Crawdeloch Criminal_Pink D E Wright Daev Clysdale dameDiadora Dana Fried Daniel Pirone Daniel Saulnier Daniel Shook Daniel Warren Daniela Darren Le David Beckett David L-F David Lindes David Litvak David Michael Farley Deepak Mallubhotla Desi Fowl Destros Devin Bruce Devin Faux Devona Upurok Dmitry Rudchenko Domingo Vladivostok Haemos Don Whiting Donoho Dylan E List Avenger
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewIs classic literature dead? | A Professor ExplainsZoe Bee2022-01-29 | Some books are said to be "literary" while others aren't - but what makes the difference? What is it that determines which books are "literature" and which ones aren't? Who decides which books and plays and poems get taught in our English classes?
Well, let's talk about it.
00:00 - Intro 00:57 - What is the literary canon? 09:21 - Who decides? 15:01 - Who shapes culture? 21:39 - What's the alternative? 26:48 - Wrap-up and poem
The bookshelf tour is part of the "Extra Stuff" videos made available to my $5-and-up Patrons and Channel Members. To join either of those, see the links at the bottom of the description!
* Sources: * ---Books ------ Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation, by John Guillory ------ Literary Theory: An Introduction, by Terry Eagleton ------ Professing Literature, by Gerald Graff ------ The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature, by Robert Aston ------ The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages, by Harold Bloom ------ This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books, by Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne & Kadija Sesay George
---Articles ------ "Why How We Read Trumps What We Read", by Gerald Graff
* Art: * --- All illustrations by the wonderful Aud (portfolio: audmcname.com)
We’ve all had that moment where we have great points, but we feel like we just aren't being listened to. In this video, we're going to talk about the 4-step theory you can use to win arguments (or at least argue better!)
00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Why Aren't Arguments Productive? 03:34 - Part 1 06:48 - Part 2 10:44 - Part 3 12:34 - Part 4 14:30 - How do we Fix Things? 16:50 - It's Everywhere 18:21 - How to Win 20:32 - End Crawl and Poem
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewPuns are Good, ActuallyZoe Bee2021-10-17 | "Puns are the lowest form of humor." This is something we've all heard...but is it true? Today, we're going to talk about the humble pun - funny puns, even the BEST puns - and why they have a lot more depth, history, and importance than meets the eye.
00:00 - Intro 06:14 - What is a pun? 10:12 - Why do people hate puns? 15:14 - What makes things funny? 20:42 - Puns are fun 24:22 - Puns are good for our brains 31:53 - Puns fight censorship 41:44 - Puns are playful 46:14 - Conclusion 47:54 - Credits & Poem 50:58 - Bloopers
* Sources: * ---Books ------A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance, by Franken Rubenstein ------Ars Punica (The Art of Punning), by Tom Punsibi (Jonathan Swift) ------The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes ------The Pun Also Rises, by John Pollack
Did you know there are over a million words in the English language? Which sounds like a lot until you remember only 17% of those million are in use and a single person only knows about 15% of that 17% and then we’re at only 2½% and suddenly we feel very small.
In an infinitely expanding universe how could we even imagine finding a word - not even a word, just a sound - for All the Things and the colors we’ll never see and the plants that will be born ten thousand years after the last great-granddaughter of the last Earth-bound human dies.
And even knowing how insufficient our words are, knowing how short we come to speaking the names of All the Things, knowing how the Universe sees the hubris of linguists as the ambitions of a child who hasn’t yet seen the stars, Somehow there are still people who hate the word Moist.
In The Land of Brand Twitter, where household products and fast-food companies are personified by underpaid marketing employees working for corporations desperately trying to hold onto some semblance of relevance in ever increasingly saturated markets, it’s hard to stand out.
But one brand - Steak-Umm - was able to stand out from the crowd by tweeting about something no other brand was brave enough to: Wokeness.
Their seemingly anti-capitalist, pro-social-justice tweets gained traction and made Steak-Umm the mascot of level-headed, rational thinking on the Internet.
That's a bad thing.
00:00 - Intro 01:33 - The Birth of Woke Steak 07:19 - The Tweet that Broke Me 08:45 - Obligatory "Capitalism is Bad" Section 14:08 - Outro and Patron Scroll
“The Void" (for Intergalactic Trans Celebrity Juliet Mylan)
It’s a room with dark wood walls, and a floor covered in well-worn rugs. In the corner, a dimly lit Christmas tree pours red and green over someone’s workboots. You notice the air has a musty wetness, like lots of old rooms in old houses. Like your grandparents’ house. Yes, it smells distinctly like your grandparents’ house. Like cool Oregon air and acres of grassland baking in the summer sun and cows.
The couch – you must have missed it before – sits in the middle of the room. The graying leather fades along creases, and years-stained whiteness pools on the left cushion. That was your spot, when you and your brother played… Oh, you forget the name, now… How long has it been since you’ve seen him?
You forget… How did you get here? You don’t remember coming into this house. You don’t know if this room is even in a house. How did you get here? The cold open air of the outside feels a thousand miles away. You hear a coyote howl somewhere in the distance. How did you get here? The television in the corner blinks on. An old CRT. It’s just static. How did you get here?
It doesn’t matter. The door is unlocked, there, behind you. It’s ajar, but you can’t quite see through to the other side. You can leave whenever you want.
Do you?
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewDid John Steinbeck Plagiarize The Grapes of Wrath?Zoe Bee2021-07-11 | Sanora Babb wrote a novel, but her idea was taken by John Steinbeck, and now you've never heard of her. This book is Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb, and her story is incredible. But you’ve never heard her story because of John Steinbeck
So, today I want to tell you a story that’s a hundred years in the making – a story that’s amazing and surprising and funny and humbling and awe-inspiring and tragic.
I want to tell you the story of Sanora Babb.
* Sources * ---"On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps" written by Sanora Babb, ed. Douglas Wixson, photography Dorothy Babb ---"Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius" Lawrence Jackson ---Sanora Babb Website: http://www.sanorababb.com/index.htm ---Harry Ransom Center Collection: https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00501
* Art: * ---all illustrations by Aud McName (@audmcname), http://audmcname.com ---photos from the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) Collection ---other photos from Photogrammer (a collection of digitized historical photographs) photogrammar.org
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewPragerUs TERRIFYING Parenting Advice | A Response to PragerUZoe Bee2021-06-08 | Conservative YouTube channel PragerU shares parenting advice that's not just outdated, but also pretty terrifying. In this PragerU response video, I want to take a look at their advice, break it down, and talk about why it's really, REALLY bad.
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewGrading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor ExplainsZoe Bee2021-05-22 | Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core.
...that's all a little dramatic, but that really is the goal of this video. Our schools are broken, our workplaces are broken, and our society is broken...and it's all because of bad psychology and bad economics.
00:00 - Maria's Story 03:22 - Intro 06:13 - Brief History of Grades 08:37 - Why are Grades a Scam? 13:13 - Assumptions About Motivation 16:17 - Why Is Motivation a Myth? 19:44 - Why Rewards Don't Work 25:50 - Fixing Our Schools 33:55 - Advice for Teachers 38:19 - Fixing Our Workplaces 42:52 - Conclusion 46:32 - Outro
* Sources: * ---Books ------Education: A Very Short Introduction - Gary Thomas ------Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire ------Punished By Rewards - Alfie Kohn ------Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks ------Ungrading: Why Rating Undermines Student Learning (And What to Do Instead) - edited by Susan D. Blum
---Articles ------"A Century of Grading Research: Meaning and Value in the Most Common Educational Measure" - Brookhart et al. ------"A change to pass/fail grading in the first two years at one medical school results in improved psychological well-being" - Bloodgood et al. ------"Children's Task Interest and Performance: Immediate Versus Subsequent Effects of Rewards" - Fabes et al. ------"Do Material Rewards Enhance the Performance of Lower-Class Children?" - Janet T. Spence ------"The Effects of Contingent and Noncontingent Rewards and Controls on Intrinsic Motivation" - Edward L. Deci ------"The Impact of Anticipated Reward Upon Cross-age Tutoring" - James Garbarino ------"Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers" - Teresa M. Amabile ------"Problem Solving: Response Competition and the Influence of Drive" - Sam Glucksberg ------"Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)" - Schinske and Tanner
* Art: * ---all illustrations by A. McNamee (@audmcname), http://audmcname.com ---all photos and videos from Creative Commons
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* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewThe Poem That Doesnt Exist | A Professor ExplainsZoe Bee2021-05-07 | Robert Frost's famous poem "The Road Not Taken" is one of the most well-known poems out there. But it's also one of the most misinterpreted poems. It's so often misinterpreted that most people don't even know its real name - they just call it "The Road Less Travelled."
So...why is that? What is it about this poem that makes it so confusing? And, ultimately, what does it really mean?
Art: ---all illustrations by A. McNamee (@audmcname), http://audmcname.com ---all photos and videos from Creative Commons
Well, I'm an English professor and published poet here to help you out.
Sources: ---Why Poetry - Matthew Zapruder ---The Poetry Home Repair Manual - Ted Kooser ---Poems (in order of appearance): --------"The Alchemist" by Zoe Bee --------"Unnamed Bad Poem" by Zoe Bee --------"I do not need the kind of love..." by Rupi Kaur --------"After Years" by Ted Kooser --------"Newcastle Bar & Grill" by Thea S. Kuticka --------"For Annie" by Edgar Allen Poe --------"Yellow Tractate" by Brenda Hillman --------"Iron" by Gabbie Hanna --------"The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot --------"Ode to the Bumblebee" by Zoe Bee --------"A patch of violets, visited twice" by Zoe Bee
---Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right – Michael Brooks ---Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings – Ben Shapiro ---Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ---Minds Made for Stories – Thomas Newkirk ---Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think – George Lakoff ---Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason – William Davies ---Out of Our Minds – Sir Ken Robinson ---Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
---Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right – Michael Brooks ---Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings – Ben Shapiro ---Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ---Minds Made for Stories – Thomas Newkirk ---The Mismeasure of Man – Stephen Jay Gould ---Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think – George Lakoff ---Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason – William Davies ---Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction – Stephen Gaukroger ---Out of Our Minds – Sir Ken Robinson ---Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil
Music (in order): ---Prelude in C Major, Bach ---Dust Bowl, Walt Adams ---String Quartet #13, Beethoven ---Trans Siberian Express, Luella Gren ---Kingdom of Baghk, Vusal Zeinalov ---Prelude in C (again) ---Jeanne in a Waltz, Leimoti ---The Perfectionist, Brightarm Orchestra
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewGrammarly is Garbage, and Heres WhyZoe Bee2021-01-24 | Grammarly is a popular grammar-checking tool that is marketed as a one-stop-shop for all your writing needs. However, unless you're already a writing expert, Grammarly actually does you more harm than good. So let's talk about all the reasons why Grammarly premium is garbage, in this Grammarly review by Zoe Bee.
If you find yourself asking how to use Grammarly, "Is Grammarly good?" or "Is Grammarly worth it?" then this Grammarly review video is for you!
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewHow to Argue with Conspiracy Theorists (And Win)Zoe Bee2020-12-23 | So you've gone home for Christmas, and as you're sitting down to eat dinner, your "crazy" uncle starts talking about how COVID-19 is a hoax, or about how Obama wanted to take his guns away, or about how GMOs and Chemtrails are secret government plots to implant mind-control devices into our brains.
How do you even begin to argue with this? Often, when our loved ones have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, they seem to be out of touch with reality. So...what do we do about that?
Come with me as I explore all the ways (both right and wrong) that you can go about ACTUALLY saving your loved ones from the clutches of conspiracy theory thinking.
(Re)Sources: - Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them, ed. Joseph E. Uscinski ---“Down the Rabbit Hole we Go!” Joseph E. Uscinski ---“The History of Conspiracy Theory Research: A Re view and Commentary,” Michael Butter and Peter Knight ---“What we Mean When we Say ‘Conspiracy Theory’” Jesse Walker ---“Media Marginalization of Racial Minorities,” Martin Horr and Ginna Husting ---“Conspiracy Theory Phobia,” Juha Raikka and Lee Basham ---“Conspiracy Thinking, Tolerance, and Democracy,” Steven M. Smallpage ---“Conspiracy Rumor Psychology,” Nicholas Difonzo ---“The Truth is Around Here Somewhere: Integrating the Research on Conspiracy Beliefs,” Preston R. Boat ---“Polls, Plots, and Party Politics: Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary America,” Adam M. Enders and Steven M. Smallpage ---“How Conspiracy Theories Spread,” Darin Dewitt, Matthew D. Atkinson, and Drew Wegner ---“Empowerment as a Tool to Reduce Belief in Conspiracy Theories,” Jan-Willem Van Prooijen
- Conspiracy Theories, A Primer, Joseph E. Uscinski
- Escaping the Rabbit Hole, Mick West
- Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence, Jenny Rice
* To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ twitch.tv/itucrewHow H. P. Lovecraft Breaks RealityZoe Bee2020-10-29 | In this third and final act of our Lovecraft journey, I will be discussing how H. P. Lovecraft explores the nature of reality itself. For Lovecraft, knowledge and reality are inextricably linked - but what does this mean for us as readers of his stories?
Check out the other two parts of the series here: Fear in H. P. Lovecraft (Part 1): youtu.be/GhXx67IkOew Madness in H. P. Lovecraft (Part 2): youtu.be/ni-cUZQiH88