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60 Second Histories
Victorian Workhouse - part 2; scandal
This short clip explores a terrible scandal where inmates were forced to pick meat off bones meant for fertiliser because they were so hungry.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Being A Good Role Model
In this interview Gill Todd discusses techniques that can help carers to become more effective in helping people with eating disorders.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Patient Confidentiality
In this video Janet Treasure discusses confidentiality and how medical proffessionals approach this challenge, particularly when they are dealing with patients over the age of 18.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Effects On Siblings
In this video Janet Treasure discusses the effect on a child of a sibling suffering with an eating disorder, and how parents can try to deal with and help their children cope with these issues.
Next Animation Studio
‘Dead zone’ growing, killing Oregon’s sea crabs
Fish can escape from the deadly water, but slow creatures like crabs get trapped and die.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - The Power Of Laughter
In the interview Gill Todd discusses the power of laughter in helping patients and carers deal with the experience of having or supporting someone with an eating disorder.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Ground Rules For Carers Sessions
In this video Jenny Langley discusses her book 'Boys Get Anorexia Too'. Jenny Langley's eldest son developed anorexia around the age of 12. After his recovery Jenny Langley decided to write a book about the experience, challenges and...
Curated Video
The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour
Taking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved catastrophic.
The March of Time
Men in hunger test
MOT 1946: NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: EXT WS College buildings. MEDICAL RESEARCH: Young adult males, Conscientious Objectors, being used in Army hunger testing: Doctor listening to chest w/ stethoscope, male in bed eating cracker....
Step Back History
The Badass Girl Scouts Who Helped Win World War II
The Girl Scouts, or Girl Guides, have been around for just over 100 years. You probably think of them as smiley campers, selling cookies and earning badges, but I’m going to tell you a different story. Today, let’s talk about their...
JJ Medicine
Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia): Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources
Low Phosphate (Hypophosphatemia) | Causes, Symptoms, Treatment | & Role of Phosphate, Dietary Sources
Lesson on low phosphate (Hypophosphatemia), purpose of phosphate, dietary sources of phosphate, causes of low phosphate,...
Lesson on low phosphate (Hypophosphatemia), purpose of phosphate, dietary sources of phosphate, causes of low phosphate,...
JJ Medicine
Macroautophagy | Regulation During Feeding, Fasting and Starvation
Lesson on macroautophagy and regulation by fasting and starvation, with an additional detailed overview of how macroautophagy is inhibited during feeding and the fed state. Macroautophagy is a nutrient responsive process and is inhibited...
Weird History
What Was life Like On The Tail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole tribe members, and many others, from their ancestral lands in the US Southeast to allowed territory in Oklahoma, resulted in the deaths of over...
Weird History
Ernest Shackleton's Doom,ed Antarctic Trek
Few exploits of the 20th century could match the courage and perseverance of the Shackleton expedition. Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - The Aims Of Treatment
In this video Janet Treasure discusses what kind of improvements health care proffessionals aim to make when they treat people suffering with eating disorders. Whilst often physical effects are the most obvious ones to be treated there...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Why Its Recovery Can Be Hard
In this video Janet Treasure discusses some of the difficulties in recovering from eating disorders. One of the key problems is the lack of nutrition available for brain power, which can impact their ability to change learned behaviours.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Interpretation Distorted By Starvation
In this video Janet Treasure discusses how in helping someone with an eating disorder it can be important to adopt a soft gentle tone in order to help understand the person better.
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Isolation
In this video Janet Treasure discusses approaches to coping with and support those suffering from eating disorders.
Curated Video
Starving For Total War - Turnip Winter 1916
How important is food to the outcome of war? Scholars investigate the impact of starvation on the home front of European nations during the First World War. They view a short video clip from the 32-part Great War series to analyze the...
Be Smart
Defusing the Population Bomb
With a human population of 7.6 billion and counting, how do we tackle the population problem? Examine the data using a video from an extensive science playlist. The resource explains why the human population began to increase rapidly,...
Crash Course
World War II, A War for Resources: Crash Course World History #220
What was the role of food in World War II? Examine Japan and Germany's pursuit of autarky and the acquisition of resources with a Crash Course World History video, which also addresses the varying ways that countries fighting in World...
Crash Course
Population, Sustainability, and Malthus: Crash Course World History 215
Thomas Malthus posed the most famous, and most easily disproven, theory about projected population growth in economic history. What did he get wrong—and why? Explore the Malthusian Theory of Population with a Crash Course video that...
Crash Course
Drought and Famine: Crash Course World History
Who is to blame for widespread famine? Crash Course World History guides high schoolers through a video about droughts, famines, and whether the weather or human activity is at fault for each.
Macat
An Introduction to Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population
Can human population ever exceed its ability to produce food? High schoolers watch a short overview of Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population to learn more about the subsistence level of the human population,...