E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist...

Creating genetically modified people is no longer a science fiction fantasy; it's a likely future scenario. Biologist Paul Knoepfler estimates that within fifteen years, scientists could use the gene editing technology CRISPR to make...

Groups of animals have some really interesting names! Learn about them with Jessi and Squeaks!

Parents, take a deep breath: how your kids turn out isn't fully on you. Of course, parenting plays an important role in shaping who children become, but psychologist Yuko Munakata offers an alternative, research-backed reality that...

How can Daenerys Targaryen help us understand personal identity? Find out as Hank continues our exploration of personal identity, learning about Hume’s bundle theory and Parfit’s theory of survival through psychological connectedness.

How does our knowledge grow? It turns out there are some different ideas about that. Schemas, Four-Stage Theory of Cognitive Development, and Vygotsky's Theory of Scaffolding all play different roles but the basic idea is...

Artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes. In this charming short talk, he invites all of us to shake up our perspective a little bit.

New ReviewThis captivating program uses colorful animations to illustrate the process by which genetic information is transferred by genes. Special attention is placed on how different alleles enable different traits to be expressed. The Law of...

Improve your English with our original drama series. In this episode, you’ll hear real English conversations, learn everyday expressions, and practice listening comprehension in a fun, story-driven format. For learners at the Upper...

Kids at school called me thick but I had dyslexia, says Victoria BeckhamCredit: Call Her Daddy Podcast

Baylor College of Medicine professor Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, describes his lifelong mission to develop low-cost vaccines and his personal journey as a physician-scientist. After his daughter Rachel was diagnosed with autism and...

Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, explains what it means to approach education from a conservative perspective. He outlines three core principles. First, rigor and mastery — schools...

School districts across the country are thinking about reopening. What is that going to look like? Can school reopenings be handled safely?

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Parents should talk to their kids about sex. We've got data. This is Healthcare Triage News.

We know that Human Papillomavirus causes genital warts and cancer. We know that the vaccine protects people against the seven high-risk variants of the virus which are responsible for about 90% of cervical cancers. It also protects...

There's a whole new candy myth out there: Poisoning of kids by marijuana-candy. SPOILER: It isn't happening.

When people hear about vaccine denial, they most often think about parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children. But there's another type of vaccine refusal, and it's important that we not ignore that, too. Doctors sometimes...

In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement in which they said that the benefits of male circumcision outweighed the risks of the procedure. They cited health benefits which, while not great enough to warrant...

Text messaging improves medication adherence, and parental depression is bad for kids in so many ways. This is Healthcare Triage News.

Do you think that sugar makes kids hyper? Well, you're wrong. Yes, WRONG. How do we know? Randomized controlled trials. RCTs are pretty much the most robust study design there is, and also the only way to prove causality. This week's...

Get a bird's eye view on flamingos and pink backed pelicans raising their chicks.

The video explores the thematic concerns of authority in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It contrasts the nurturing and protective authority figures in Innocence with the oppressive and restrictive figures in...

Social Learning Theory suggests that we learn not just by way of reward and punishment for actions, but instead we learn by observing others and imitating their behaviours. We watch, we copy, we practise. And one of the intriguing claims...