Financial fragility does not fall from the sky. That's why treating risk as if it comes from exogenous shocks can't capture the reality of financial markets.



In Giovanni Dosi's models, systemic risk is inherent to the...

This is the untold story of the US servicemen and women held as prisoners of war.

In this live-action program viewers will learn that a negative feedback loop is a self-regulating system. Input to the system causes a variable to increase. The resulting output then reduces the input.

Students will come to...

Antarctic ice sheet melting could increase sea levels by over five meters by the year 3000 if current warming trends continue.

The Black Death changed the world. As the most profound epidemic in human history, the plague claimed the lives of millions, with nearly half of Europe's population perishing from the disease. Some feared they were living through the...

Statistically speaking, planes are one of the safest ways of getting about. But, if you are one of the unlucky few to end up in a plane crash' here are a few tips that would be worth remembering.

We have learned all about so-called "survival of the fittest" which is a phrase we associate with natural selection. We typically associate this concept with competition for resources, but there are situations in which this involves the...

This animated math video lesson is all about analogue and digital time. Students will love this engaging and interactive video that takes them step-by-step on how to use analogue and digital clocks and solve time problems in a fun way.

Birth is a treacherous business, especially in Africa where every year up to half a million babies die on the day they are born. Evelyn Katunge, from Kenya, knows about the heartbreak of losing babies. She was just 18 when she gave...

This is a lecture video that introduces the topic of raising finance for businesses. The video covers why businesses might need to raise money and the different situations in which this might occur, including starting up, growth, and...

In this video, we will discuss the signaling mechanism and overall effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

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Lesson on interactions between the Ras Raf MAPK and mTOR signaling pathways. Ras Raf MAPK and mTOR pathways have similar but distinct functions within the cell. During cell proliferation and growth, activation of these pathways is...

In 1973, Jan-Erik Olsson took four hostages as he robbed a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. After six long days, the robbery was over, but even then, the hostages were strangely thankful to the would-be thieves, even suggesting they owed their...

The Reptilian R-Complex is the part of us that's only concerned with survival. This works at odds with us reaching our higher potential. Making the shift from this mode of thinking to a higher one such as gratitude, is in fact a far...

When it came to who survived the Titanic and who died that night in April of 1912, social status and gender were staggeringly important. It's well known there weren't enough lifeboats on the Titanic, and the ones that were used could...

Survival of the laziest, weather whiplash, and more. It's your weekly brief on new discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation.



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Mangale is a humble fisherman in the remote village of Pandav Nagar in southern Nepal. He’s a member of the Bote people, a small ethnic group of traditional fishermen probably no more than 8,000 strong. Since 1973 Mangale and the Bote...

In this video, we discuss the genetic mechanism of spinal muscular atrophy and how it might present clinically.

Like some kind of perpetual motion machine, it's hard to get physicians to change their behavior to do stuff. It's even harder to get them to change their behavior to stop doing stuff. This is Healthcare Triage News.

Contralateral prophylactic mastectomies. Not helping. No one seems to care. This is Healthcare Triage News.

A new emergency shelter, the Survival Capsule, was designed to help save lives during a tsunami. The 2011 tsunami off Japan's coast that was triggered by the T_hoku earthquake, killing almost 16,000 people and injuring 6,000 more, was...

In this video, a veteran producer discusses the importance of engaging and informative pre-flight safety videos. He emphasizes the need to combine humor with the message to ensure passengers understand the consequences of not following...

This video discusses the operation that aims to restore the Citarum River through the planting of trees. The project addresses man-made problems that have turned the river into one of the dirtiest in the world. With the help of...