Brave Wilderness
Don't Try this with a Devil!
How DANGEROUS is the Tasmanian Devil? You're probably familiar with your favorite Looney Tunes character Taz... but how much do you know about his real life counterpart? Coyote Peterson and the Brave Wilderness crew head to Aussie Ark in...
Curated Video
How Brands Ruin Slang
From the Brands Saying Bae in the 2010s, to the “wassup” ads of the 90s, advertisers are always trying to find ways to sound cool. But when brands on social media use a slang word in their marketing, that basically guarantees it's over....
Curated Video
Popular Words Invented by Authors
Authors often create words just for a one-time usage... but a special few will gain traction and become full-fledged parts of our shared lexicon!
Curated Video
IPM: Helping Honey Bees Overcome Pests and Pesticides
This segment introduces Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a holistic strategy combatting the multiple threats to honey bees, including pesticide exposure, pests, pathogens, and poor nutrition. It highlights IPM techniques like timing...
Curated Video
Water Filters and Community Water Solutions
In this final segment, viewers explore how water filters offer multifaceted solutions to tackle the challenges of water scarcity. Delving into the latter causes outlined earlier, the video unveils the transformative potential of water...
Curated Video
IPM: Combating Pathogens and Improving Bee Nutrition
This final segment of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) series showcases how IPM effectively addresses not just pest control and pesticide reduction but also crucial challenges like the Deformed Wing Virus and nutritional deficits in...
Curated Video
Pesticides, Pests, and Pollinators: A Delicate Balance
This segment examines how pesticides used in agriculture to combat pests like aphids can harm honey bees, essential for pollination. It explains the dilemma farmers face: needing to protect crops while preserving beneficial insects...
Curated Video
The Legacy of Chernobyl: Nuclear Power, Catastrophe, and the Path Forward
This video provides a chilling account of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, highlighting the catastrophic consequences of the meltdown at reactor #4. It delves into the initial secrecy surrounding the incident, the evacuation of thousands...
Curated Video
Monitoring the Spread of Avian Flu in California: Protecting Wildlife and Humans
This video highlights the concern among scientists in California about the potential spread of the avian flu virus by migrating birds. Researchers are closely monitoring wild birds and conducting tests to detect the virus, while chicken...
Curated Video
Innovative Pest Control: Using Moth Pheromones to Combat Coddling Moth Infestations
Researchers at Warwick University have developed an innovative method to control coddling moth larvae in orchards by utilizing their own sex hormones as an attractant. By lacing a basket with strong pheromones and a virus that kills the...
Curated Video
Mobile Phone Users Beware: The Rise of Com Warrior Virus
This video highlights the emergence of a new digital virus called Com Warrior targeting mobile phone users in the UK through Bluetooth technology. The virus can incur unexpected charges by transmitting itself to nearby phones via...
Curated Video
Using Fungus to Combat Malaria: A Promising Solution
Researchers have discovered a fungus that can significantly reduce the spread of malaria by targeting the female mosquito that transmits the disease. By spraying the fungus onto areas where mosquitoes rest, the parasite carried by the...
Wonderscape
DDT Pollution: History, Consequences, and Ongoing Challenges
Learn about the discovery and usage of DDT as an insecticide, its toxic nature, and the environmental impact it had. Discover how DDT contamination persists in our oceans, its connection to industrial practices, and the current efforts...
Curated Video
Peer Pressure: The Awesome Power of Social Proof
Humans feel a deep need to fit in, to conform. The harder the choice we face, the more we defer to others. I call this the ‘eight-out-of-ten-cat-owners’ effect. Psychologists call it Social Proof.
Curated Video
How to Make a Box and Whisker Plot
In this video, we will learn how to create and interpret box and whisker plots. Box and whisker plots are a type of graph that can be used to display the distribution of data. They are made up of a box, whiskers, and a median. The box...
Curated Video
Blue Mountain: Using Supercomputers to Predict Wildfire Behavior
This video showcases the power of the Blue Mountain supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It highlights how the computer can simulate and predict the behavior of wildfires, helping to save lives and minimize damage to forests....
Curated Video
Transforming Agriculture: Bio Gas Power Plants and Renewable Energy in Holsworthy
This video highlights the innovative use of renewable energy in the form of a bio-gas power station fueled by livestock waste. Farmers in the Holsworthy area of England are turning their animal waste into electricity, reducing pollution,...
Curated Video
Managing High Cholesterol: The Benefits of Cholesterol-Reducing Spreads
In this video, viewers are encouraged to switch from traditional butter to cholesterol-reducing spreads enriched with plant sterols to lower LDL cholesterol levels and promote heart health. The message emphasizes the importance of making...
Curated Video
The Global Challenge of Tuberculosis
This video highlights the resurgence of tuberculosis, particularly the emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB) due to misdiagnosis and misuse of drugs. It emphasizes the global impact of TB, the challenges in treatment, and...
Institute of Human Anatomy
What Syphilis Does to the Body | And Should You Get Tested?
In this video, Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses what causes syphilis, the problems it causes throughout the body, how it is treated, as well as who should consider getting tested.
Financial Times
Growing calls for crop diversity
FT Food Revolution - Mass agriculture has embraced uniform, monoculture crops that can produce greater yields, but can also be more susceptible to disease. Now researchers and some growers are warning that diversity must be encouraged,...
Financial Times
The blight that could decimate the world’s banana crop
FT Food Revolution - Dire warnings about the banana’s impending extinction have been circulating for some time, but despite that, as the FT’s Clive Cookson explains, global production has expanded in recent years. That growth, however,...
Financial Times
Battling the avian flu epidemic
FT Food Revolution - The FT's Anjana Ahuja reports on how virologists are unlocking the secrets of the latest H5N1 avian flu strain, in an attempt to tackle the most serious and sustained disease threatening farmed poultry and wild birds...