JJ Medicine
Tropical Sprue | Causes, Pathogenesis, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Tropical Sprue | Causes, Pathogenesis, Signs & Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment Tropical Sprue is a gastrointestinal condition of unknown etiology (although likely infectious in nature). It involves malabsorption of nutrients (particularly...
Healthcare Triage
Relative Risks of Acetaminophen, ADHD, and Autism
You’ve probably heard before that acetaminophen during pregnancy is associated with symptoms of ADHD and Autism in offspring. Well, we’ve got another study on that association. In today’s episode, we examine that study and revisit why we...
Kenhub
Study groups: Help or hindrance for anatomy learning?
Find out whether study groups are for you, or if studying alone is the way to go.
Religion for Breakfast
War Makes Us More Religious
Bibliography: Michael Jackson citation at 4:37 - 4:47: Citation from Existential Anthropology, p. 94 Joseph Henrich, Michal Bauer, Alessandra Cassar, Julie Chytilova, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, "War Increases Religiosity," Nature: Human...
Healthcare Triage
Stop It! Why It's Tough to get Doctors to Drop Treatments
It takes a lot of ongoing training to get doctors to take up new treatments and techniques in their practice. But it turns out it's REALLY difficult to get docs to stop using treatments when later studies show that treatment to be...
Healthcare Triage
The Mysteries of the Microbiome: There's Still a Lot to Learn
While we have long known about the existence of microbes - the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us - our full relationship has become one of the hottest topics for research only in recent years. That's the...
ShortCutsTv
Using Non-Human Animals in Research
This film begins by looking at how animals were used in psychological research, looking particularly at Harlow's experiments isolating rhesus monkeys in what he himself described as 'the pit of despair'. It then looks at the regulation...
Curated Video
Foot Soldiers: A Nonprofit Founder Shares His Journey Through Entrepreneurship
This video is a profile of Barnabas Shakur, the founder of Project Regeneration, a non-profit organization that provides at-risk youth in Brooklyn, New York with educational workshops, job training, and martial arts classes as an...
Curated Video
Barley: Why It's a Super Grain
This video discusses the nutritional benefits of barley, an ancient grain known for its superior value across continents and millennia. The video highlights various aspects of barley's nutritional profile, such as its high fiber content,...
Healthcare Triage
What Are Nootropics? Are They Going to Make You Smarter?
I don't know why, but you all keep asking for an episode on nootropics. For those of you who aren't in the know, those are drugs which are supposed to enhance cognitive function. Nootropics are the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
Healthcare Triage
Cholesterol Isn't Quite as Bad as You've Been Told
Cholesterol! For decades it's been demonized as the reason so many people have heart disease. We 've been watching it, and avoiding it like the plague.
Science360
Biodiversity: A boon for brain research
How two unlikely microbes (that don't even have brains) led to the development of one of today's most promising brain research techniques--which is being used to study many diseases including schizophrenia and Parkinson's.
Healthcare Triage
Basic and Advanced Life Support; One Helps. The Other, Not So Much.
Basic Life Support (BLS) is basically CPR, and when bystanders are trained to help people suffering cardiac arrest with BLS and automated defibrillators, outcomes improve. Advanced Life Support (ALS) is a whole other story. We've got the...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Cohort and Case Control Studies
In this short video, Dr Greg Martin discusses Case Control and Cohort studies. He compares the strengths of each study design and describes when each of them would be a preferred research method.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why Corporate-Led Globalization is Unsustainable
Globalization’s elite winners get lower taxes while its losers pay more Economist Gabriel Zucman discusses how globalization shapes the way taxes, corporate profits, and income are shifted around the world.
After Skool
Why You Can't Trust Nutrition Science & Health Claims
The information in this video comes from Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food". Over the last 2 centuries, humans have studied nutrition, but has all that science made us healthier as a species?
Curated Video
How Colors Influence Our Emotions and Actions
This video explores the power and influence of color on our emotions and perceptions. It discusses how different colors can evoke specific feelings and reactions, as well as their cultural and symbolic meanings.
Science360
BIOTECH'S FUTURE: RESTORING VISION TO MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
LambdaVision, Inc. a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research program, has designed a retinal implant to help restore vision in people who have retinitis pigmentosa or age-related...
Healthcare Triage
Why Won't the US Study Gun Deaths?
Guns are in the news A LOT these days. The RAND Corporation recently unveiled a huge study on guns. We're going to talk about the minuscule amounts that are spent on studying guns, and look at the evidence around regulating guns and the...
Science360
Marshes And Sea Level Rise
With support from the National Science Foundation, Villanova University marine scientist Nathaniel Weston studies how both land use and climate change can impact habitat in tidal marshes, including how rising sea levels may affect...
Oxford Online English
How to Talk About Your Studies in English - Learn Spoken English
Are you a student? Do you study at school or university? If you’ve finished your education, can you describe what you studied, when and where? In this lesson, you can learn to talk about your studies in English. Talking about your...
Weird History
Rise And Fall of Joe Camel
The rise and fall of the Joe Camel cartoon is a lesson in disastrous advertising. As a marketing ploy, Joe was allegedly created to draw smokers away from Camel's competitors. The Joe Camel advertising campaigns utilized a masculine...
Healthcare Triage
You're Probably not Dehydrated: The Eight Glasses of Water a Day Myth
How much water should you drink every day? Not as much as you've been told. This summer, like many summers before it, has seen a rash of articles warning us not only that is dehydration is dangerous, but that it is also ubiquitous. Real...
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Chaetognatha: Arrow Worms
Arrow worms are voracious predators who play an important and often overlooked role in the ecosystem. There has been much debate about this phylum's place on the evolutionary tree. Let's learn why that is! Spiralia part 8