The information in this video comes from Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food". Over the last 2 centuries, humans have studied nutrition, but has all that science made us healthier as a species?

Genghis Khan, Alexander The Great, Queen Victoria... only a handful of people can claim to have held the world in their hands. These are the ten empires that came so close to owning the Earth.

R0 (the basic reproductive number) tells us more than just how many people will be infected in a totally susceptible population. It can be used to calculate the how much vaccine coverage is needed to get to herd immunity. As COVID-19...

This video is a musical tribute to William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, who is remembered for his love of the gold standard and his role in the Spanish-American War, which unknowingly sparked the beginning of US...

Epidemic curves are an important component of the public health and global health toolbox. During an outbreak of an infectious disease, public health professionals and epidemiologists create visual representations of the onset of illness...

Using simulations to see that populations of replicators grow exponentially.

What Does the EU Parliament Actually Do? - Brexit Explained

Just the Facts: The Emergence of America Uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades thats shaped Modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of the early 20th century,...

The FT's Moscow bureau chief Henry Foy explains how the price of the humble cruciferous vegetable reflects the economic landscape.

What did the British do when they took over what is now New York City? How did wall street get its name?<br/>
Maps That Made America, Part 3

This week, we're going to celebrate the Canadian Province Quebec's birthday by doing a quick history of the strange place.

South Africa is an economy that is really important to understand as a kind of potential outcome case study of inequality gone bad. The nation itself, on paper at least is not so terrible, it is actually one of if not the wealthiest...

Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM) companies are big businesses around the world and they have rightfully attracted much criticism for questionable business practice. Many have called them illegal pyramid schemes, but today these...

👉 Learn how to solve proportional rate problems using integration. The integral, also called antiderivative, of a function is the reverse process of differentiation. Integral of a function can be evaluated as indefinite integral or as a...

In this lesson, students will learn how to model exponential growth situations using a two-variable equation. They will understand the concept of repeated multiplications with a variable exponent and how it relates to exponential growth.

This video is a lecture on different types of sampling techniques. The speaker explains the purpose of taking samples and the importance of having a representative sample in order to infer information about the overall population. They...

Dr Greg Martin talks about the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tools used in global health programs. This forms part of the epidemiology series.

Anna Gross lays out the threat new variants of the disease pose to the UK's vaccination programme. The hopes of the rest of the world could rest upon whether Britain succeeds in its target of 15m vaccinations by mid-February.

Marine biologist Erica Staaterman is tuned in to the sounds of the undersea world. She records and analyzes the noise of life underwater, and as a result can tell you what a lobster sounds like, or a mantis shrimp (it rumbles).

This video explains the concepts of populations and samples in statistical analysis. It defines population as the overall group of interest, and sample as a subset of the population used to infer information about it. The video...

Scientists have found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to splitting into two distinct species based on wing color and mate preference. Researchers describe the relationship between diverging color patterns in...

Epidemic curves are a visual representation of the onset of cases in an outbreak. In this video Dr Greg Martin explains how to interpret and epidemic curve for point source outbreaks, common source outbreaks and propagated outbreaks....

In this video, using the new p-value notion, some t-tests are performed.
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This clip is from the chapter "Hypothesis Testing" of the series "Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis".This section explains null and...

America has one of the worst reoffending rates in the world. But in Arizona, prisoners tame wild mustangs as part of a pioneering programme to teach them the life skills they need to break the cycle and stay out of jail.