Curated Video
Compare and Contrast | Reading Strategies
Learn how to compare and contrast within texts. Being able to compare and contrast is an important reading skill as it helps the reader to organise information more efficiently and boosts comprehension.
Curated Video
How to Cite ANY Source in MLA Format (In-text Citations)
In this video, I show you how to cite any source in MLA format. I not only show you how to cite your sources but I cover the purpose of in-text or parenthetical citations which will help you avoid plagiarism.
Nature League
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish - De-Natured
In this De-Natured segment of Nature League, Brit breaks down a recent scientific journal article about the rates of speciation of marine fish around the world. Article citation: Rabosky, D.L., Chang, J., Title, P.O., Cowman, P.F.,...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Powering through Prose - 'Big Picture' Questions in Prose (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
Welcome back to Powering Through Prose! In this lesson, we’ll unpack key elements of more advanced prose fiction, including narrative purpose, context, genre, structure, setting, narrative perspective and characterisation. Never fear -...
JJ Medicine
Vitamin D, Immune System & SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | Mechanism of Vit D Immune Regulation & Overview
Vitamin D, Immune System & SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | Mechanism of Vit D Immune Regulation, Overview of Evidence In this lesson, I discuss the vitamin D its immune system regulation, specifically with regards to how vitamin D can help...
Healthcare Triage
Rising Pet Care Costs Might Tell Us Something about Human Health Care Costs
In almost every year since the 1960s, health care spending has grown at least as fast as the overall economy, and often much faster. Health economists have long debated why.
Healthcare Triage
Infant Mortality in the United States is Surprisingly High
Many more babies die in the United States than you might think. In 2014, more than 23,000 infants died in their first year of life, or about six for every 1,000 born. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 other...
PBS
Can You Judge a Book By Its Cover?
Get to know the story behind some of literature's most iconic book covers in the latest episode of It's Lit!
Healthcare Triage
Does Poor Sleep Contribute to Alzheimer's Disease?
Alzheimer’s disease is no stranger in the news cycle. The latest headlines are dedicated to a new study on how the brain keeps itself clean, a process which scientists have long suspected to be involved in the disease. Let's take a look.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Economists Incentivize Conformity Over Quality
Economists tend to incentivize conformity over quality, but could pressure from outside groups change that? INET sits down with Carlo D’Ippoliti, Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, to talk about pluralism in...
Healthcare Triage
Data and Studies on Malpractice
Malpractice is a complicated subject. Studies seem to indicate, however that there are some effective strategies for reducing the costs associated with medical errors.
Healthcare Triage
Doctors Have a Pretty Huge Gender Pay Gap
So recently, one of my co-bloggers asked me if we'd ever done a Healthcare Triage on the gender pay gap in medicine. I realized we hadn't. We're going to fix that right now.
PBS
Fear of GhostWriting (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | PBS Digital Studios
You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the...
Healthcare Triage
The Facts About SIDS and Swaddling
My physician-gaming-group-friends are being swamped by concerned parents because of a new study in Pediatrics that has led to many news articles declaring that swaddling - wrapping an infant tightly in a cloth or blanket - may increase...
PBS
Fear of Ghost...Writing!
What is ghostwriting and why does it exist? The answer is less frightening - but more complicated - than you'd think.
Bill Carmody
The Essence of Marketing and Creating Change
In this video, Bill Carmody interviews marketing guru Seth Godin about his latest book, "This is Marketing." They discuss the importance of empathy, storytelling, and creating tension in marketing. Godin emphasizes the need for marketers...
Curated Video
Supporting Your Argument: Turning Topic Sentences into Questions
In this video, the teacher explains how to support your argument in an essay by turning the topic sentence into a question. The lesson focuses on persuasive writing and the goal of getting the reader to agree with the author's argument....
Religion for Breakfast
The Druids: What Do We Really Know?
The Druids. The mysterious Celtic religious specialists of ancient Ireland, Britain, and Northern Europe. But who were they really? What historical evidence corroborates their existence?
Curated Video
Latitude Festival: A Cultural Extravaganza in Suffolk
Latitude Festival is a four-day event held in Henham Park, Suffolk, England. Learn more about its unique blend of music, theater, literature, and art, making it culturally enriching and appealing to a wide range of festival-goers.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Shannon McClintock Miller at BLC14 - Being a Connected Educator
Filmed at Building Learning Communities 2014. Shannon McClintock Miller is the district teacher librarian at Van Meter Community School, Iowa. She encourages her students to have a voice while learning, creating, collaborating, and...
Curated Video
Curriculum Reform is Vital if Economics is to Serve Humanity
Joe Earle, co-founder of The Post-Crash Economics Society, member of Rethinking Economics and co-author of the Econocracy, explains why his group is trying to democratize economics as a conversation and a policy–making process.
Healthcare Triage
Backwards Car Seats are Pretty Swede, but We Can Do More to Keep Kids Safer
Rear-facing car seats do keep kids safer, but they can be hard to use for larger children. In Sweden, kids stay in backward facing seats a lot longer, and have fewer injuries. The study that encouraged American parents to turn their car...
Healthcare Triage
What's Happening with the Hydroxychloroquine Study Retraction?
A significant study on the safety of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 has been retracted. So, what does this mean? What does it say about using the drug to treat COVID? What does it say about the way we do science?
PBS
How Do You Write a Bestseller? (Feat. @Lindsay Ellis)
Here on It’s Lit!, we spend a lot of time pontificating on the high canon of books: Your Shakespeares, your Tolstoys, your… erotic beast wars fanfiction. But today we’re craving something a little lighter, a little fluffier… you know,...