Curated Video
Pandemic Perspectives: Beliefs and Values
MITIGATING THE MENACE: Professor Dunn talks about how drastic and systemic the impact of the COVID-1 pandemic was, how democracy does not necessarily give any guarantee for collective security and how it is not certain that any kind of...
The Guardian
The last king of Eswatini? Reporting on protests in Africa's last absolute monarchy
Cebelihle Mbuyisa is a freelance journalist who was beaten for covering pro-democracy protests in the kingdom of Eswatini. Formerly known as Swaziland, the country has been rocked in recent weeks by anti-monarchy protests calling for...
Curated Video
Inside the Making of Oppenheimer: The Legacy of the Little Boy and Fat Man
Little Boy And Fat Man are the nicknames given to the two weapons of mass destruction that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, seem ridiculous when thinking about what they were capable of doing. Little Boy was the first nuclear bomb to...
Curated Video
The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl
The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl analyzes the nuclear disaster of Ukraine and Chernobyl and the effects on health and society.
Schooling Online
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Vol. 3, Chapters 5-7 Summary
Victor returns to Switzerland in a fragile state after losing another loved one. The Frankenstein family plans for a happy occasion, but it’s overshadowed by the monster’s deadly threats. Victor is finally pushed over the edge and...
Vlogbrothers
Empathy and its Limits
In which John thinks about the limits of empathy, how we conceive of suffering, and how little he knows about being a bird. This video uses a format called The Format.
Journey to the Microcosmos
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
Why Do Microbes Explode Under UV Light?
Curated Video
Rebels in the Records: Irish MP and revolutionary. Countess Markievicz by Gabriel
National Archives: This films is part of a series called ‘Rebels in the Records’. The films in the series were created by young people in July 2021 and combine puppetry, model-making and animation. They explore stories of people and...
Curated Video
US filmmaker tracks lives lost during pandemic
A 56-foot billboard called the Trump Death Clock was unveiled in Times Square in New York City on Friday.
Healthcare Triage
The Opioid Crisis and the Way Forward
This is part 4 in our series on the opioid crisis, presented with support from the NIHCM Foundation. We've talked about the state of the opioid crisis, deaths of despair, and the disappointing evidence about marijuana as a treatment for...
Healthcare Triage
Infant Mortality in the United States is Surprisingly High
Many more babies die in the United States than you might think. In 2014, more than 23,000 infants died in their first year of life, or about six for every 1,000 born. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 other...
Healthcare Triage
Measles Infections Can Wipe Out Immunity to OTHER Diseases
We're very clearly in favor of vaccines here at Healthcare Triage, because they save a LOT of lives. It turns out, the measles vaccine was doing more than we previously thought. Getting infected with measles doesn't only make you sick,...
Healthcare Triage
Deaths of Despair and Decreasing Life Expectancy in the US
In recent years, life expectancy in the US has been dropping. A significant contributor to that drop has been deaths of despair. Drug overdoses and suicides have increased in tandem with the opioid crisis, and the outcome is shorter...
Financial Times
The drugs don't work: a global antibiotics crisis
The World Health Organisation says drug-resistant diseases already kill at least 700,000 people each year. This could be 10m deaths each year by 2050 unless new antibiotics are found. The FT's Andy Bounds visits the UK government-backed...
Healthcare Triage
Prescription Opioids: Balancing Short Term Pain and Long Term Gain
A new simulation study published in the American Journal of Public Health shows that reducing opioids for short-term pain saves lives in the long run, even as it leaves some patients experiencing more pain. This is the fundamental...
TLDR News
Why is American Life Expectancy Falling? - TLDR News
The US has a major mortality issue, with the country's life expectancy actually falling in recent years. So in this video, we explain the issues with the American system and why people pay so much for some of the lowest life expectancies...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Tuberculosis and Global Health
In this episode, we take a closer look at Tuberculosis (TB), its epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. We also look at drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and the relationship between tuberculosis and HIV.
Mr. Beat
The Suez Crisis (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Here's the story of one of two times we were on the brink of World War III- The Suez Crisis.
Healthcare Triage
Incidents and Criticisms: Vaccine Backlash Part 2
Part five of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, continues to explore the history of societal backlash against vaccination, with particular attention to...
Healthcare Triage
The Stuff We Worry About, and the Stuff That Actually Kills Us
What are we worried about in terms of health? What's really gonna kill us? How different is that from the past? All this and more on this week's Healthcare Triage News.
Curated Video
The Discovery and Uses of Fluorine: A Highly Reactive Element
This video provides an overview of the element fluorine, its properties, and its uses. Despite its reactivity, fluorine is used in dental care and pharmaceuticals due to its beneficial effects on teeth and its stable carbon-fluorine...
AllTime 10s
10 Biggest Cover Ups Of The 21st Century
From bribery in order to host major sporting events to covering up medical malpractices, here are the 10 biggest cover ups of the 21st Century.
TLDR News
How Does Coronavirus Actually Kill People? Mild, Severe and Critical COVID Explained - TLDR News
At the time of writing the Coronavirus has taken 165,636 lives globally and the death toll is rapidly increasing. So in this video, we wanted to explain what happens to a COVID patient. How symptoms progress from mild to severe and then...