Curated Video
Did Artificial Intelligence Help Us Fight COVID?
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a lot of excitement around the use of machine learning to fight COVID. But now that we're 18 months into it, did AI actually help?
Curated Video
Did DeepMind Solve One of Biology's Biggest Challenges? | AlphaFold 2
Did DeepMind solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold 2? Stay tuned to find out.
Curated Video
Predicting the Higgs Boson
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how physicists knew that the Higgs boson had to be there before any experiment.
Curated Video
Portugal’s Influence on Brazil
Portugal’s Influence on Brazil explores the influence of Portugal on Brazil and the differences in history and culture.
Curated Video
Building the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a vital trade route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The story of its creations goes back hundreds of years.
Curated Video
Judy Heumann: Mother of ADA
Disabled teacher Judy Heuman dedicated her life to fighting for civil rights. As one of the architects of the Americans with Disabilities Act, she changed US society forever.
Curated Video
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
The Gilded Age was a period of unprecedented industrial and economic growth in the United States – but were the men at the helm captains of industry or robber barons out for their own?
One Minute History
040 The Black Death - One Minute History
1346 - Oriental rat fleas infected with the Yersinia pestis bacterium arrive by boat in several European cities. Within three years, the ‘Pestilence’ or ‘Great Mortality’ grips the entire continent. Bubonic plague earns its name from the...
Curated Video
Scientific Bias
Scientific Bias evaluates the credibility of an author’s claims in a sample advertisement by identifying a potential source of bias.
Neuro Transmissions
How YOU can help stop Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65. So if so many people have it, why don’t we have a cure? Let’s talk about why finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease...
Neuro Transmissions
What social distancing does to your mental health (and what to do about it)
These are anxious times given the recent coronavirus outbreak. And if that wasn't stressful enough, now we have to add social distancing on top of it. If you're anything like me, you've taken your responsibility to flatten the curve...
Neuro Transmissions
What causes Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer's Disease is a horrible condition that can strike at the brain of your loved ones and steal their memories and lives. But what is Alzheimer's Disease? What's going on in the brain? Is Alzheimer's just a normal part of aging?...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Incidence and Prevalence
Incidence and prevalence use in Public Health as a measure of the burden of disease in community or country. We also sometimes refer to point prevalence and period prevalence. These are basic concepts in epidemiology that help plan...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Public Health Surveillance
Public health surveillance is about more than just infectious disease epidemiology. It can include health surveillance on non-communicable disease, health service usage etc. Importantly it is about how health data is collected and...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Risk, Rate and Odds
If you're working in public health, epidemiology or any of the medical disciplines, then you've probably come across the terms risk, rate and odds. These ideas seem similar but have important differences.
Global Health with Greg Martin
How to survive your MPH
If you're about to or have started a Master of Public Health degree or MSc Public Health, then this video will talk you through what you need to do to get the most out of the experience. Public Health includes health promotion, health...
Curated Video
Ethics in Science
Ethics in Science assesses whether the actions of a scientist were ethical by examining scenarios and describing why each scenario was or was not ethical.
Curated Video
Biodiversity: Natural and Human Causes of Depletion
This video discusses what biodiversity is and its overall importance in ecosystems. The video will also discuss different factors that can decrease biodiversity.
Nature League
Can We Domesticate Opossums?
This week on Nature League, Brit explores the incredible process of domestication and answers Adrian's question about keeping a house opossum.
Nature League
Why Are Rodents Unpopular?
This week on Nature League, Brit Garner explores the amazingness of rodents, and Adrian asks her if capybaras are the Tom Hanks of the non-human animal kingdom.
Nature League
A World Without Mosquitoes?
On this episode of Nature League, Adrian asks Brit what would happen if all mosquitoes went extinct. Graphics by Tamar Ziri; Original intro and branding by Matt Gaydos and Maia Ledesma. Special help from Felix and Jane
Hip Hughes History
Scurvy and World History Explained
A must know for anyone in a Global or World History course, a super quick overview of what Scurvy is and how is reaped havoc in World History during the Age of Exploration. Fall into the video arsenal rabbit hole!
Vlogbrothers
How to Get a Colonoscopy
So, today I went in for a routine medical procedure, and I wanted to talk about it to: 1. Remove some stigma 2. Give some advice 3. Make it clear that preventative medicine is important! My procedure went great and Katherine filmed about...