Healthcare Triage
What Kind of Gun Laws Work? Guns and Public Health Part 4
Let's be honest. The real controversy around the issue of guns is, what might we do about it? It's the potential firearms policy changes that make people squirrelly. But guns have been regulated in the United States, we can see what...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why the Dismal Science Cares About Happiness
Economics is often thought of as emotion-less, but University of Southern California economist Daniel Benjamin argues for happiness as a vital indicator. Benjamin discusses how economists measure and understand behavior.
Healthcare Triage
Can Marijuana Help with Opioid Addiction?
Part 3 of our opioid series supported by the NIHCM Foundation looks at the potential for marijuana to improve outcomes in opioid addiction therapy. Some studies have shown that prescribing marijuana can ease the path to shaking an opioid...
Healthcare Triage
Coffee! It's Not Bad for You, and It might Even be Good!
When I was a kid, my parents refused to let me drink coffee because they believed it would "stunt my growth". It turns out, of course, this is a myth. Studies have failed, again and again, to show that coffee or caffeine consumption are...
TLDR News
Is One Metre of Social Distancing Really Enough? How Far Apart Should we Be? - TLDR News
This week the UK government changed its COVID guidance revising the adjusting to stay 2 meters apart to being only 1 meter apart. The thing is that some aren't convinced this is a good decision, with many worrying that it's too soon to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Kurt Squire - Game-Based Learning
Kurt Squire is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Educational Communications and Technology division of Curriculum and Instruction and a research scientist a the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab....
Healthcare Triage
Your Cell Phone Won't Give You Cancer
I can't speak for you, but lots my friends go into a tizzy when groups like the WHO classify cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic". Should you panic? Cell phones and cancer are the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
Science360
Waterfall-climbing fish performs evolutionary feat
The species of Goby fish, Sicyopterus stimpsoni, also known as the ""Inching climber,"" thrives in the waters off Hawaii, and the amazing physical feat it must perform to survive is no fish tale! To reach the safe haven of its freshwater...
Healthcare Triage
Research Studies Could Be More Pragmatic, and More Useful
Promising health studies often don’t pan out in reality. The reasons are many. Research participants are usually different from general patients; their treatment doesn’t match real-world practice; researchers can devote resources not...
Curated Video
WeWork's Founder Discusses His Journey with Entrepreneurship
In this video, Adam Neumann, the co-founder of WeWork, talks about his life journey and how he learned important lessons like compassion and perseverance that helped him in his entrepreneurial journey. He also talks about the mission of...
Curated Video
The Honest Tea Founder Shares Insights on Business Leadership and Stategy
The video is an interview with the founder of Honest Tea, a beverage company that focuses on organic and low calorie products sourced from fair trade gardens. He talks about how the company started, the challenges they faced, and their...
The Wall Street Journal
Understanding Your DNA
Jill Hagenkord, chief medical officer for Color, speaks with Jason Anders, the WSJ's chief news editor, about how the sophistication and democratization of genetic testing will impact the future of medical treatment.
Religion for Breakfast
The Least Religious Countries in the World
In this episode we examine the topic: The Least Religious Countries in the World
Healthcare Triage
Ketamine Can Be a Fast-Acting Antidepressant
A recent study looked into ketamine, noted animal sedative and party depressant, as a short-term treatment for severe, emergency room level depression. While it can help people who are suffering from suicidal ideation, it is a short term...
AllTime 10s
10 Old Wives' Tales Proven True By Science
Carrots will make you see in the dark, Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. These can't actually be true right? Well maybe there is more to these than you first thought.
Healthcare Triage
The 5 Second Rule: It's Still Not a Thing.
We covered the Five Second Rule a couple years ago. And, just a few weeks ago, colleagues at the New York Times (and many other news sources) wrote about a new study debunking the five second rule. This was not the first such study to...
Healthcare Triage
Got a Bad Diagnosis? Talk to Someone Who Has Been Through It
When someone gets a diagnosis, they should get lots of time with their doctors and nurses to talk and learn about the condition. This isn't always possible. Sometimes, it can be useful to talk to patients who have also been through the...
Healthcare Triage
Are Artificial Sweeteners Harmful?
Our episode on Organic food was a hit, but lots of you had questions in the comments asking about the safety of artificial sweeteners. We live to serve, so this week's episode is about the research in that area. These chemicals get a bad...
Healthcare Triage
What Should Future Childhood Programs Look Like?
In 2005, when the RAND Corporation wrote about early childhood interventions, they argued that the evidence to date showed those interventions improved outcomes and generated benefits that outweighed the costs. More than ten years later,...
Mazz Media
Talk It Out: Effects of Weed on Your Body and Brain
Using vintage footage, the program opens with a discussion of how peoples’ attitudes about marijuana have changed dramatically over the years, but the one thing is certain; marijuana changes the way the brain functions. Students will...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Experiment Reveals Earth Microbes’ Likely Fate on Mars: Podcast
A feature from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on March 30, 2017.
Curated Video
From Start-Up to Sold: The Communispace Founder Shares Her Insights for Business Success
In this video, Diane Hassan, a successful entrepreneur and business owner, shares her journey of building companies from scratch and offers advice on how to thrive in a startup environment. She discusses her experiences with starting and...
Healthcare Triage
That Low Salt Diet Probably Won't Prevent Heart Failure
There have been lots of recommendations over the years to eat a low-sodium diet. We've talked about the evidence on this before. Well, get ready to taste salt again. Research points to the conclusion that low sodium diets don't do much...
Healthcare Triage
Weed, Intoxication, DWI, and Breathalyzers
How do breathalyzers work? And will there ever be a breathalyzer for marijuana? As pot has become legal in several states, law enforcement has sought a method to detect marijuana use in drivers. This is complicated, though. Breathalyzers...