TED Talks
TED: The bias behind your undiagnosed chronic pain | Sheetal DeCaria
While doctors take an oath to do no harm, there's a good chance their unconscious biases can seep into how seriously they take your pain. Physician Sheetal DeCaria explains how perception impacts medical care and treatment -- and calls...
SciShow
Are My Electronics Making Me Sick?
Can the radiation emitted by electronic devices affect your body and make you feel terrible?
SciShow
Why Being Introverted Doesn’t Make You Antisocial | Antisocial Personality Disorder
Introverts can often feel antisocial, but they are not always the same thing. In fact, psychologists found that they have great differences in their brain’s structure and function.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is Alzheimer's disease? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, affecting over 40 million people worldwide. And though it was discovered over a century ago, scientists are still grappling for a cure. Ivan Seah Yu Jun describes how Alzheimer's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why are eating disorders so hard to treat? | Anees Bahji
Globally, about 10% of people will experience an eating disorder during their lifetime. And yet, eating disorders are profoundly misunderstood. Misconceptions about everything from symptoms to treatment make it difficult to navigate an...
SciShow
How Do People Develop a Stutter?
Kings, scientists, and musicians alike have all been known to stutter. It can make speaking in front of crowds even more nerve-wracking, but is anxiety the root cause? Spoiler: probably not.
SciShow
Lime Disease How a Fruity Drink Can Give You a Rash
Furanocoumarins, the evolutionary weapons of certain plants (including limes), can ruin your vacation, or cause caterpillars to curl leaves. Find out why in this episode of SciShow!
SciShow
Dopamine Isn’t Just a Happy Chemical
When we think of the neurotransmitter dopamine, we often imagine it, and other molecules in our brains, as doing one specific thing. But that's just flat out wrong!
SciShow
Solving the Mystery of Darwin’s Lifelong Illness
Charles Darwin had a great mind, but a not-so great body. Scientists have spent years trying to uncover the mysteries of his poor health.
SciShow
Alice Hamilton: The Doctor Who Made Work Safer | Great Minds
During the period of rapid industrialization at the turn of the 20th century, factory jobs were incredibly unsafe. That is, until Dr. Alice Hamilton basically became an investigative reporter to figure out how factories were poisoning...
SciShow
Does Depression Make You More Realistic?
Popular culture has occasionally touched on the idea that people with depression are more objective judges of the world around them, but research has shown that’s not necessarily true.
SciShow
The Worst Nobel Prize Ever Awarded
SciShow explores the grim story of the lobotomy, the medical procedure that earned its inventor perhaps the most regrettable Nobel Prize in history.
SciShow
Migraines: Not Just Another Headache
If you've never had a migraine, you might think it's just a really bad headache. But if you've ever had them, or you know someone who does, you know that they're much worse -- and much more complicated -- than that. Hank explains the...
Curated Video
How Being Sick Changes Your Brain
When you're sick you just want to be left alone. Sometimes that's because you physically can't move, but other times, it might have more to do with the way your immune system is connected to your brain.
SciShow
Why Does COVID-19 Have So Many Symptoms?
For a respiratory disease, COVID-19 sure seems to affect more than just the respiratory system. Scientists think the receptor ACE2 is to blame.
SciShow
Migraines Not Just Another Headache
If you've never had a migraine, you might think it's just a really bad headache. But if you've ever had them, or you know someone who does, you know that they're much worse -- and much more complicated -- than that. Hank explains the...
Crash Course
Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders: Crash Course Psychology
Did you know that Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder aren't the same thing? Did you know that we don't call it Multiple Personality Disorder anymore? In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank takes us down the road of...
SciShow
Is This Coronavirus or Just Allergies Symptoms of COVID19
A lot of people with coughs or fevers might be stressing out these days because they are worried that they have COVID-19. But with cold and flu season still in full swing, and the spring allergy season starting up (in the Northern...
TED Talks
Paula Johnson: His and hers ... health care
Every cell in the human body has a sex, which means that men and women are different right down to the cellular level. Yet too often, research and medicine ignore this insight -- and the often startlingly different ways in which the two...
SciShow
Kids, Kawasaki Disease, and COVID-19: What Parents Should Know
While children are only a small minority of those who test positive for COVID-19, we’re starting to see evidence of a rare, but serious, complication in children that resembles a condition known as Kawasaki disease. Here’s what doctors...
SciShow
This Fruit Could Treat Parkinson's... Even Though It Causes Parkinson's Symptoms
In the 90s, patients displaying symptoms similar to, but not exactly like Parkinson's Disease left doctors scratching their heads. But when they took a look at their patients' diets, they found the culprit in the form of a popular and...
SciShow
Poop: Our Newest Ally in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Right now, scientists need additional COVID-19 monitoring methods. And our poops might help!
SciShow
The Science of Lewy Body Dementia
This week in SciShow News we dissect what a Lewy Body is and what they are capable of doing.
SciShow
A Vaccine for Asthma? #inmice | SciShow News
A vaccination to protect against allergic asthma may be in sight, as scientists this week publish promising results in mice. Also, the California Condor is making a comeback, and its genome is looking great!