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Healthcare Triage
Do Standing Desks' Benefits Stand Up to Research?
Research suggests that warnings about sitting at work are overblown, and that standing desks are overrated as a way to improve health. Let's dig in.
TLDR News
The Russia Report Explained: Did Russia Hack the Brexit Referendum? - TLDR News
On Tuesday (21 July) the UK government finally published the Russia Report, a long-awaited document which outlined how Russia had impacted and meddled in British politics. In this video, we outline the report's findings, specifically how...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nicholas Negroponte - Being Educated
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT,...
Curated Video
CompTIA Security+ Certification SY0-601: The Total Course - Gathering Digital Evidence
This episode covers chain of custody, evidence order of volatility, and digital forensics tools used to acquire evidence. This clip is from the chapter "Dealing with Incidents" of the series "CompTIA Security+ Certification SY0-601: The...
Boulder Creek International
The Frontier Ukraine: Investigating the MH17 Tragedy
WARNING: This video contains footage of violence and death, some viewers may find distressing. The Frontier Ukraine part 5/7: This video discusses the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. It explores...
Curated Video
GCSE Secondary English Age 13-17 - Reading: Comparing Writers' Ideas and Perspectives Part 1 - Explained
SchoolOnline's Secondary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners. Ideal for ages 13-17, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in clear and easy to...
AllTime 10s
10 Extraterrestrial Discoveries That Could Prove Aliens Exist
Is there life on Mars? Could the newly discovered planets around Trappist-1 be home to aliens? Alltime 10s investigates, with 10 Biggest Discoveries In The Search For Alien Life.
Religion for Breakfast
The Siege of Masada: What Really Happened?
Masada is one of the most famous archaeological sites in Israel. It is best known from a dramatic episode described by Josephus in his account The Jewish War when the Judean rebels in the First Jewish Revolt made an epic last stand...
Religion for Breakfast
The Gnostic Gospels: Were They Illegal?
A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this theory into question. Were the Gnostic...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering Through Prose - Narrative Style, Techniques & Figurative Language in Prose Fiction (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
Our second lesson will zoom into the finer elements of prose fiction. We’ll tackle narrative style, techniques and figurative language. You’ll discover a writer’s number one rule – show, don’t tell. Soon enough, you’ll have all the tools...
Alltime
5 Scientific Signs Aliens COULD Exist
Phobias can be debilitating, but some of them are simply bizarre. Here are the strangest things that some poor people are actually terrified of.
Weird History
8 Important Members Of The 27 Club
Featuring rock stars, singers, and musicians who died at 27, this list of 27 Club members includes some of the greatest musicians who died before 30. "The 27 Club" or "Club 27" is the colloquial name given to a group of influential rock...
Next Animation Studio
Japanese court sentences Yakuza boss to death
After the sentencing, Yakuza boss Satoru Nomura told the judge: ‘You will regret this for the rest of your life.’
Next Animation Studio
Man allegedly behind Haitian President’s assassination identified
A suspect arrested on suspicion of masterminding the assassination of Haiti’s president was plotting to become president, according to the chief of Haiti’s National Police, cited by The New York Times.
Weird History
On The Front Lines of Viking Raids
Ten-foot spears, three-foot shields, and a thousand raving warriors - Viking combat was brutal, bloody, and often deadly. Whether raiding a defenseless monastery to haul off gold and jewels or lining up to battle a rival army, Vikings...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Advice to the Next Generation
In part 6 of INET's interview with Giovanni Dosi, he tells young economists to be curious, focus on alternative systems of micro-founded macroeconomics, and to let the data talk
Healthcare Triage
Does CBD Have Any Value as a Treatment?
Last week we covered CBD and mental health, finding that data to backup health claims are scarce and consumer CBD products are often sketchy. In this week’s episode on CBD and other health ailments, we find that many of the same caveats...
Religion for Breakfast
Animism: The First Religion?
Anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries hypothesized that animism was the earliest religion. But later scholars have called this theory into question. What is animism? And how should we categorize it? This video was...
Healthcare Triage
Doctors, Quality of Care, and Pay for Performance
"Pay for performance" is one of those slogans that seem to upset no one. But as with so many things in health care, it's much more complicated than it appears at first glance. Watch and learn!
Curated Video
Why Don't We Have Pet Foxes?
Both foxes and dogs belong to the same family Canidae. Then why haven’t foxes become our companions too? To answer this, in 1950, a group of Russian scientists began an experiment to try and create the first ever pet fox species. The...
TLDR News
Should Weed Be Legal in the UK?
Britain seems to be oblivious to the global trend of decriminalising and legalising marijuana. Should the UK do the same and legalise weed? Would the UK ever legalise weed?
Weird History
Viking Justice Is Based On Blood Feuds
The practice of blood feuding was a fundamental aspect of the Icelandic judicial system during the Middle Ages. A feud, something so complex that it lacks an agreed-upon definition, involved vengeance and hatred among groups -...