TED Talks
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness
Today, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for...
TED Talks
Emily Oster: Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa
Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong.
SciShow
Why the Pandemic Has Us Buying Roller Skates and Baking Bread
A lot of people have been pretty cooped up lately and it’s starting to bring out some strange desires in people. What context can psychology offer to help us understand what might be going on?
Bozeman Science
Health Impacts of Pollution
In this video Paul Andersen explains how chemicals can cause both chronic and acute diseases. A discussion of the five main types of toxins; neurotoxins, carcinogens, teratogens, endocrine disruptors, and allergens is including. The LD50...
SciShow
How Being Obsessed with Health Can Make You Unhealthy
Dieting and exercise can be good for you, but just because something’s healthy, that doesn't mean more is even healthier.
Crash Course
Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition - Crash Course Outbreak Science
We take it for granted that society gets better at tackling infectious disease over time, but when you really think about it the progress we’ve made in the last century is pretty amazing. How does that much progress happen so quickly?...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The incredible history of China's terracotta warriors - Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen
In 1974, farmers digging a well near their small village stumbled upon one of the most important finds in archaeological history _ vast underground chambers surrounding a Chinese emperor's tomb that contained more than 8,000 life-size...
SWPictures
A Vaccine for Diarrhea
New ReviewVirtually every child in the world, rich or poor, is infected early in life by a vicious bug called rotavirus. The lucky ones show no symptoms—they simply become immune. Others develop severe diarrhea. Given the best medicine, the...
Curated Video
Prognosis for People with Schizophrenia
Howcast - Learn what the prognosis is for people with schizophrenia from psychiatrist Jeanie Tse in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
How Much Sleep Do Adults Need?
Howcast - Learn how much sleep adults need from sleep specialist Priyanka Yadav, D.O. in this Howcast video.
Curated Video
Understanding 'To Autumn' by John Keats
Pupil outcome: I can explain how Keats presents the speaker's feelings towards autumn. Key learning points: - Keats’ poem is an ode ‘To Autumn’ - a celebration of the penultimate season of the year. - The poem celebrates the bountiful...
Curated Video
When you die, this is what happens to your body
What happens to our bodies when we die? Well, after death, many things happen to our bodies at physical and chemical levels. In this video, we will cover all the science of death.
Curated Video
Smallpox: The First Vaccine
How the contagious and lethal smallpox virus was finally eradicated - 150 years after the first chance to prevent a global outbreak was missed. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Smallpox is an acute, contagious disease - one of...
Healthcare Triage
Do you Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?
Your fitness tracker encourages you to take 10,000 steps a day for better health. Science doesn't exactly support that. Today we're talking about the research around step counts and all-cause mortality.
Healthcare Triage
Misunderstanding the Data on Diet, Exercise and Mortality
We’ve got another nutrition study making a splash in the media. This time we’ve got a combination of diet and exercise claims, complete with all our favorite things: Observational study, limited self-reports, and way too many factors to...
Curated Video
Macbeth 2.3 Performance: Macbeth, Lines 88-93
Watch a captivating performance of Macbeth's poignant soliloquy from Act 2, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Delve into the depths of Macbeth's despair as he reflects on the futility of life and the loss of meaning in the wake of...
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 5.3 Performance: Brutus Laments Cassius (Lines 98-110)
This video highlights a poignant moment in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" where the characters reflect on the mortality and fate of their comrades, leading to a decision to honor the fallen before continuing the fight. The segment...
Schooling Online
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - Theme of Mortality
Thinking about our own mortality isn’t exactly a comfortable exercise. But Virginia Woolf doesn’t shy away from it in Mrs Dalloway. Her characters’ anxieties and daily musings about life and death offer fascinating insight into the...
Vlogbrothers
personal risk | societal risk
In which John considers the differences between individual risk and societal risk, especially as it related to infectious disease pandemics.
Professor Dave Explains
Paracelsus and Medicine During the Renaissance
We just learned about medicine in the Middle Ages, and the time period that follows is called the Renaissance. What advancements were made during this time? The most important figure in this period of medicine went by the name of...
Healthcare Triage
Trying to Control Blood Pressure Isn't Always the Right Move for the Elderly
I read a study a few weeks ago on blood pressure treatment for nursing home residents, and I almost ignored it. There are so many like it. But it's just ridiculous that this kind of stuff continues, and that we can't seem to do anything...
Healthcare Triage
Are Beta-Blockers Useful in the Elderly after a Heart Attack?
Should we use beta-blockers in the elderly after they have a heart attack? It just got more complicated. This is Healthcare Triage News.
Healthcare Triage
Measuring Safety Might Actually Improve It...At Least Temporarily
Measuring safety might actually improve it. Unfortunately, those improvements fade away when the measurement is over. This is Healthcare Triage News.
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,...