60 Second Histories
Victorian Workhouse - part 2; scandal
This short clip explores a terrible scandal where inmates were forced to pick meat off bones meant for fertiliser because they were so hungry.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Being A Good Role Model
In this interview Gill Todd discusses techniques that can help carers to become more effective in helping people with eating disorders.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Patient Confidentiality
In this video Janet Treasure discusses confidentiality and how medical proffessionals approach this challenge, particularly when they are dealing with patients over the age of 18.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Effects On Siblings
In this video Janet Treasure discusses the effect on a child of a sibling suffering with an eating disorder, and how parents can try to deal with and help their children cope with these issues.
Next Animation Studio
‘Dead zone’ growing, killing Oregon’s sea crabs
Fish can escape from the deadly water, but slow creatures like crabs get trapped and die.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - The Power Of Laughter
In the interview Gill Todd discusses the power of laughter in helping patients and carers deal with the experience of having or supporting someone with an eating disorder.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Ground Rules For Carers Sessions
In this video Jenny Langley discusses her book 'Boys Get Anorexia Too'. Jenny Langley's eldest son developed anorexia around the age of 12. After his recovery Jenny Langley decided to write a book about the experience, challenges and...
Curated Video
The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour
Taking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved catastrophic.
The March of Time
Men in hunger test
MOT 1946: NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: EXT WS College buildings. MEDICAL RESEARCH: Young adult males, Conscientious Objectors, being used in Army hunger testing: Doctor listening to chest w/ stethoscope, male in bed eating cracker....
Step Back History
The Badass Girl Scouts Who Helped Win World War II
The Girl Scouts, or Girl Guides, have been around for just over 100 years. You probably think of them as smiley campers, selling cookies and earning badges, but I’m going to tell you a different story. Today, let’s talk about their...
JJ Medicine
Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia): Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources
Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia) | Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources Lesson on low phosphate (Hypophosphatemia), purpose of phosphate, dietary sources of phosphate, causes of low phosphate, symptoms,...
JJ Medicine
Macroautophagy | Regulation During Feeding, Fasting and Starvation
Lesson on macroautophagy and regulation by fasting and starvation, with an additional detailed overview of how macroautophagy is inhibited during feeding and the fed state. Macroautophagy is a nutrient responsive process and is inhibited...
Weird History
What Was life Like On The Tail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole tribe members, and many others, from their ancestral lands in the US Southeast to allowed territory in Oklahoma, resulted in the deaths of over...
Weird History
Ernest Shackleton's Doom,ed Antarctic Trek
Few exploits of the 20th century could match the courage and perseverance of the Shackleton expedition. Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - The Aims Of Treatment
In this video Janet Treasure discusses what kind of improvements health care proffessionals aim to make when they treat people suffering with eating disorders. Whilst often physical effects are the most obvious ones to be treated there...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Why Its Recovery Can Be Hard
In this video Janet Treasure discusses some of the difficulties in recovering from eating disorders. One of the key problems is the lack of nutrition available for brain power, which can impact their ability to change learned behaviours.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Interpretation Distorted By Starvation
In this video Janet Treasure discusses how in helping someone with an eating disorder it can be important to adopt a soft gentle tone in order to help understand the person better.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Isolation
In this video Janet Treasure discusses approaches to coping with and support those suffering from eating disorders.
Press Association
Daily political briefing - March 14
All the latest political news as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tells a Washington DC crowd that Palestinian civilians are being subject to “humiliation and starvation” during the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Press Association
Irish minister says South Africa has made ‘irrefutable’ points on Gaza conflict
One of the leaders of Ireland’s coalition Government has said there are “irrefutable” points in South Africa’s case against Israel for genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
South Africa says the scale of the deaths and...
Bridgeman Arts
California, 1952: As a train attempts to navigate through snow, a history of Donner Pass is narrated
California, 1952: As a train attempts to navigate through snow, a history of Donner Pass is narrated.
Bridgeman Arts
RESEARCH IMW tape 171 signs of the nazi medical experiments on auschwitz victims 1945
1945 - Poland - Child with signs of medical experiments - prisoner arrives and faces the scientists - Prisoners examined by the Soviet scientists, one is infected by leprosy - young boy examined - Young man is being examined - 13 years...
Bridgeman Arts
Journey For Survival part one - women fetching water in Africa and Asia. African women with starving baby.
Clip from 'Journey For Survival' 1981 documentary about drought and famine in developing countries. WS of desert with shots of animal carcasses. Camel train with women fetching water. African woman trying to save her malnourished baby....