Healthcare Triage
Do Early Childhood Interventions Work?
Last week we started our deep dive into the RAND Corporation’s comprehensive report on early childhood programs. We talked about how they’re defined, and how they’re targeted. Great. But do they work? What are the outcomes they improve?...
Healthcare Triage
Do Any Common Cold Remedies Work? Probably Not.
There's a flu shot for the flu. But what about colds? Does anything work? Let's find out. .
Curated Video
From HR Professional to Founder: A CEO Shares Her Entrepreneurial Journey
The video features Marie Diaz, the founder and CEO of Pursuit of Excellence, a human capital management company. Diaz talks about her journey from leaving a corporate job to starting her own company, which now has hundreds of employees....
Healthcare Triage
Is There a Difference Between Brand Name Medications and Generics?
We've already discussed drug names, generic and "brand" ones. But are there differences beyond the words? That's the topic of this week's Healthcare Triage.
Curated Video
Air Conditioning Sickness: Can AC Make You Sick?
The cold air produced by ACs is not inherently harmful. However, you may start to see symptoms of air conditioning sickness if your AC fails to restrain the bacteria, mold, fungi, dander, etc., that are thriving in the air-conditioned...
Curated Video
The Biology of Love - How Love Actually Works
What is love, and how does it work from a biological perspective? What are the hormones involved? In this video, I dig into the science that governs attraction.
PBS
Why Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
Where do artificial flavors come from? Well whether it's your average store bought yogurt, granola bar, or even butter, a lot of food we eat today is full of artificial flavoring. Why did this happen? Well it actually has to do with the...
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.
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
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.
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.