SciShow
What Social Distancing Actually Is & What it Means for Mental Health
Social distancing is a time-honored, low-tech tool for slowing the spread of contagious pathogens. But it can also take a toll psychologically. Luckily, there are ways to mitigate these harms, so you can protect yourself and your...
Bozeman Science
Plant and Animal Defense
Paul Andersen describes how plants and animals defend themselves against pathogens. He begins by discussing the hypersensitive response in plants as a nonspecific form of immune response. He then discusses both the humoral and...
MinutePhysics
How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19
This video is a collaboration with Aatish Bhatia about how to see the COVID-19 tipping point - we present a better way to graph COVID-19 coronavirus cases using a logarithmic scale in "phase space" - plotting the growth rate against the...
SciShow
How Dangerous is COVID-19?
You may have heard several different projections about the fatality rate of COVID-19. How do different health organizations come up with these figures, and why do the numbers seem so fluid?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How we conquered the deadly smallpox virus - Simona Zompi
For 10,000 years, humanity suffered from the scourge of smallpox. The virus killed almost a third of its victims within two weeks and left survivors horribly scarred. But Simona Zompi commends the brave souls - a Buddhist nun, a boy, a...
Crash Course
A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey: Crash Course Literature 201
In which John Green teaches you about Homer's Odyssey. If it was Homer's If Homer was even real. Anyway, that stuff doesn't really matter. John teaches you the classic, by which I mean classical, epic poem, the Odyssey. The Journey of...
TED Talks
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. Read Montague gives an overview of how this...
SciShow
The Health Benefits of ... Cannibalism
Cannibalism may actually make a community healthier, but maybe don't try it at home.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Sajan Saini: How light technology is changing medicine
It's an increasingly common sight in hospitals around the world: a nurse measures our height, weight, blood pressure, and attaches a glowing plastic clip to our finger. Suddenly, a digital screen reads out the oxygen level in our...
TED Talks
Nathan Wolfe: The jungle search for viruses
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa -- before they claim...
Crash Course
Disease! Crash Course World History 203
In which John Green teaches you about disease, and the effects that disease has had in human history. Disease has been with man since the beginning, and it has shaped the way humans operate in a lot of ways. John will teach you about the...
SWPictures
Blinded by Trachoma
New ReviewThriving in more than 50 developing countries, mostly in Africa and Asia, trachoma is the leading cause of blindness in the world. It is at its worst in rural communities and women are its favourite victims. Trachoma is a bacterium that...
SWPictures
Deadly Pneumococcal Disease
New ReviewAlthough it is rarely fatal in wealthy countries, pneumonia kills more children each year than any other infectious disease. This program explains why the pneumococcus bacterium has run rampant in the underdeveloped world, and explores...
SWPictures
Beating Chagas Disease
New ReviewDespite its amorous nickname, the vinchuca, or “kissing bug,” actually gives its sleeping victims a malevolent bite—sucking blood and transmitting a microscopic parasite called Tripanisoma cruzi. The microbe, in turn, produces Chagas...
SWPictures
New TB Treatments
New ReviewThis year alone, eight million people will become infected with tuberculosis. Like the common cold, TB spreads through the air when sufferers cough, sneeze, spit, or just talk. One needs only to inhale a few germs to catch it. This...
SWPictures
Eradicating Polio
New ReviewWhen polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are now...
SWPictures
Eliminating Lymphatic-Filariasis
New ReviewLymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease commonly known as elephantiasis, results in massive swelling of the limbs and genitals, leading to severe disability. Over 40 million people are seriously incapacitated and...
SWPictures
Fighting Bilharzia
New ReviewSwimming, bathing, washing clothes, and fishing—these are everyday activities that put people in the developing world at risk of catching bilharzia (or schistosomiasis), if the water is infected with eggs of the schistosome worm. Left...
Brave Wilderness
5 Deadly Tick Bites you Need To Worry About!
New ReviewThese are the five ticks you need to worry about this tick season! Keep those pants rolled down, and make sure you don't take any of these parasites home with you while you're out in the wild.
The Daily Conversation
The Zika Outbreak Explained
New ReviewThe Zika virus is spreading through the Americas and is suspected to be causing babies to be born with tiny heads (and less developed brains).
Curated Video
Biological Immortality Explained: Can You Still Die?
Biological Immortality: The top 3 biggest causes of death are in order: Heart disease, Cancer, and Lung disease. These and other diseases kill as many as 2.5 million people per year just in the United States. What if we could cure these...
Curated Video
Singer, Poet, Activist, Lupus Survivor - Shanelle Gabriel
"Rock out...live your life....live your art!" This was Brooklyn, New York native Shanelle Gabriel's response to her diagnosis of Lupus, an autoimmune disease where your body's immune system, that usually fights infections, attacks...
Curated Video
Can extending India's lockdown stop coronavirus? | The Stream
On The Stream: Is India doing enough to stop coronavirus?
Curated Video
“A Concert For My Mom” – This Talented Musician Holds A Benefit Concert For His Mother Battling ALS
Hundreds of friends from her hometown community of New Canaan, CT came out to hear Ann Depuy's son Nick and his band perform, which included a song dedicated to his mother's fight against ALS. Ann was a vital part of the community,...