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SciShow

A Constipation Drug Could Improve Memory | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Could you enter a flow state with the people around you? Also we've found a promising drug for treating mental illness, and it might not come from where you expect.
Instructional Video17:26
TED Talks

TED: Why we need to end the War on Drugs | Ethan Nadelmann

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Is the War on Drugs doing more harm than good? In a bold talk, drug policy reformist Ethan Nadelmann makes an...
Instructional Video12:45
TED Talks

TED: The creativity, innovation and ingenuity languishing in US prisons | Brittany K. Barnett

12th - Higher Ed
The freedom journey doesn't end when someone is released from prison. In many ways, it begins. Attorney and entrepreneur Brittany K. Barnett fights to free people from prison and champions restoring and nurturing the creative ingenuity...
Instructional Video9:33
TED Talks

Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future

12th - Higher Ed
Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few...
Instructional Video6:45
SciShow

How Doctors Accidentally Discovered Psychiatric Drugs

12th - Higher Ed
The brain is incredibly complex and things just go wrong sometimes, but scientists have managed to create effective medications... with the help of a few happy accidents.
Instructional Video15:21
TED Talks

Shereen El-Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws

12th - Higher Ed
There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El-Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws, based in stigma,...
Instructional Video9:06
SciShow

6 Reasons We Have to Say a Study Was "In Mice"

12th - Higher Ed
A lot of our videos include the disclaimer "Mice aren't people." But why do we keep saying this, and if rodent studies aren't effective, why do we keep using them?
Instructional Video5:59
SciShow

Finally, a Drug That Helps With the Worst COVID-19 Infections

12th - Higher Ed
A bit of good news on the COVID-19 front this week: New research reveals a drug that might actually help save severely ill patients, and data suggests that distancing policies may have saved millions of lives over the last few months.
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Ecstasy in Rivers and The World's First Geological Map

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News shares new research into how music festivals can lead to high levels of drugs in your drinking water, and celebrates the man who created the world’s first geological map.
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

Why Can’t We Figure Out What Causes Chemo Brain?

12th - Higher Ed
Chemotherapy can make patients much more forgetful than normal, but pinning down the cause of and solution to this phenomenon is an ongoing process.
Instructional Video12:10
TED Talks

TED: A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early | Jimmy Lin

12th - Higher Ed
Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer's presence via a simple blood test, detecting the recurrence of some...
Instructional Video2:50
SciShow

Why Do Some Drugs Make Your Pupils Wider?

12th - Higher Ed
How do your pupils work and why do some substances make them dilate?
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

3 Weird Ways Olde Tyme People Got High

12th - Higher Ed
Humans have been processing plants for their narcotic effects for at least 5000 years, historically for ceremonial purposes, to deal with harsh environmental conditions or difficult situations, and sometimes even to supplement...
Instructional Video21:15
TED Talks

The freakonomics of crack dealing - Steven Levitt

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. "Freakonomics" author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he...
Instructional Video16:59
TED Talks

Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?

12th - Higher Ed
Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages afforded us by that and later antibiotics....
Instructional Video4:29
SciShow

Hospitals are Hotspots for Antibiotic-resistant Germs

12th - Higher Ed
While antibiotics have saved millions of lives, misusing them can speed up how fast bacteria evolve to resist them. And it turns out that one of the biggest hotspots for these antibiotic-resistant bacteria…is hospitals.
Instructional Video5:28
SciShow

3 Ways You Can Join the Citizen Scientists Fighting COVID-19

12th - Higher Ed
If you’re getting restless from social distancing and wishing you could do more to help fight the global pandemic, here are some ways that you can help scientists fight COVID-19—all from the comfort of your home.
Instructional Video13:39
TED Talks

TED: 4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

12th - Higher Ed
Throughout her career in banking Ilona Szabó de Carvalho never imagined she'd someday start a social movement. But living in her native Brazil, which leads the world in homicidal violence, she realized she couldn't just stand by and...
Instructional Video5:43
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome can cause blind patients to hallucinate scenes in vivid color. fMRI studies show that these hallucinations activate the same brain areas as sight - areas that are not activated by imagination....
Instructional Video6:38
SciShow

Our Best Bets for Treating COVID-19

12th - Higher Ed
It will probably be at least a year before we have a vaccine for COVID-19. But in March, the WHO launched a megatrial tolook at four treatment options for the virus.
Instructional Video14:55
TED Talks

Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells

12th - Higher Ed
Calling them "our bodies' own repair kits," Susan Solomon advocates research using lab-grown stem cells. By growing individual pluripotent stem cell lines, her team creates testbeds that could accelerate research into curing diseases --...
Instructional Video12:34
TED Talks

Priti Krishtel: Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system

12th - Higher Ed
Between 2006 and 2016, the number of drug patents granted in the United States doubled -- but not because there was an explosion in invention or innovation. Drug companies have learned how to game the system, accumulating patents not for...
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

Female Viagra' & New Insights Into Narcolepsy

12th - Higher Ed
Recent research has offered some new insights into our biochemistry -- from a proposed drug for sexual arousal to a possible link between the flu and narcolepsy.
Instructional Video11:08
Crash Course

Biomedical Treatments: Crash Course Psychology

12th - Higher Ed
Do you know how Prozac works? Or lithium? Did you know that electro shock therapy is still a thing? There's a lot to know about biomedical treatments and how they work in tandem with psychotherapy or talk therapy. In this episode of...