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TED-Ed: Can you transplant a head to another body? | Max G. Levy
In 1970, neurosurgeon Robert White and his team carted two monkeys into an operating room to conduct an ambitious experiment. The objective was to connect the head of Monkey A to the body of Monkey B, in what he considered a whole-body...
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This Neuron Helps People Walk Again | SciShow News
There’s been some big news in neuron science this week as individuals suffering paralysis regain mobility and music might have a secret that gets us to dance.
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Hacking the Brain: The Future of Prosthetics
We usually think of 'hacking' as a bad thing, but scientists are working on ways to hack the brain that will greatly benefit people with prosthetics, and maybe someday people with paralysis.
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What Happens When a Venomous Snake Bites Itself?
Venomous snakes produce some of the world’s deadliest substances, so they have to be pretty careful about how they use it. But what happens if they accidentally inject themselves with their own harmful cocktail?
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Why Haven't We Eradicated Polio?
If we’ve had vaccines for the polio virus for almost 70 years, why haven’t we been able to fully eradicate it from the globe? Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
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Body Parts You’ve Never Heard Of
You might think that you’re pretty familiar with your body, but it turns out that our bodies still have some surprises for us!
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7 Organs You Could Totally Live Without
Most people know that they don't need their appendix, but what other organs can humans live without?
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Goodbye Glaciers, and Britain Doesn't Forget To Be Awesome
SciShow gives you latest in science news, including what "unstoppable" melting in Antarctica really means, and how you can help scientists increase the awesome through the 2014 Longitude Prize.
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Robot Surgeons and 4 Other Medical Advances That Sound Like Sci-Fi
Modern medicine is wonderful, but even in a world where open-heart surgery and brain-scanning headsets sound almost mundane, some medical advances do truly seem like science fiction. From robot-assisted microsurgery to reanimated organs,...
TED Talks
Melinda Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola
Melinda Gates makes a provocative case: What can nonprofits learn from mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, whose global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- an ice-cold Coke? Maybe...
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TED: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss
The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail,...
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TED: A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text | Tom Oxley
What if you could control digital devices using just the power of thought? That's the incredible promise behind the Stentrode -- an implantable brain-computer interface that collects and wirelessly transmits information directly from the...
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Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
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Hacking the Brain: The Future of Prosthetics
We usually think of 'hacking' as a bad thing, but scientists are working on ways to hack the brain that will greatly benefit people with prosthetics, and maybe someday people with paralysis.
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TED: 3 clues to understanding your brain | VS Ramachandran
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
Curated Video
Controversial Therapy: Implanting Tissue from Aborted Fetuses to Treat Paralysis
Dr. Hong Yang Huang, a neurosurgeon at Xishang Hospital in Beijing, has developed a controversial therapy involving the implantation of tissue from aborted fetuses into the brains and spinal cords of paralyzed patients. Many patients...
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Eradication of Polio
Vaccines mean that there are now very few new polio cases, but in the early 1900s this wasn't the case. Learn how two scientists, Salk and Sabin, virtually wiped out this potentially deadly disease. Biology - Healthy Living - Polio is a...
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GCSE Biology - Stem Cells in Medicine
In this video, we cover: - A quick recap of what stem cells are - How stem cells can be used to treat conditions like diabetes, paralysis and sickle cell anaemia - The risks involved with stem cell treatment - The ethical objections to...
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GCSE Biology - What are Stem Cells? Difference Between Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells #11
In this video, we cover: - What stem cells are - What differentiation is - The difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells Exam board specific info: AQA - Suitable for everyone IGCSE Edexcel - Suitable for everyone...
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What is Narcolepsy and What to Do About It?
What is narcolepsy? It’s a neurological disorder that results when your brain is unable to regulate your sleep wake cycle. In this video I will discuss how to recognize narcolepsy and how it is treated. Two of the classic symptoms are...
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Brain-to-Text Communications Using Machine Learning?
Can we use machine learning to read your mind?
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Evolutionary Evidence
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker invokes a series of related evolutionary arguments to support his point that sleep must serve our most basic biological functions and is key to our survival.
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Narcolepsy (2017)
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker describes our current understanding of the biophysiological mechanisms at play in the condition of narcolepsy.
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Edith Galt: The First Lady Who Took Control
Historically a ceremonial position, the role of First Lady at one point mainly involved hosting events at the White House. But when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in 1919, his wife, Edith, covertly took on many of his duties...