TLDR News
Universal Credit and Alleged Bullying - This Week in Parliament
This Week in Parliament is a series we are currently trialling where we keep you up to date with the latest news from the UK's Parliament. This week we discuss issues including the issue of bullying in Parliament and the allegations...
Healthcare Triage
Update on Supplements: Healthcare Triage News - 04/03/2015
One of the most common things you all seem obsessed about is supplements. I get questions from Healthcare Triage viewers all the time. You're obsessed. We've covered them before here on Healthcare Triage News as well. But there's more...
Curated Video
Cindy McCain: what next for the Republican Party? | The Economist Podcast
Cindy McCain shocked the Republican Party when she endorsed Joe Biden for president. Now, the widow of John McCain tells The Economist Asks podcast about her prediction that the Republican Party will split and her hopes for a new era of...
Curated Video
3D printing prosthetic limbs for refugees
3D-printed prosthetic limbs are being tested by Médecins Sans Frontières to help people who have lost limbs in the war in Syria. The new technology is cheaper and faster than conventional methods and could revolutionise treatment of...
Curated Video
Could a cure for cancer be hiding in your medicine cabinet?
A combination of drugs, including aspirin and statins, are being tested to treat cancer and other illnesses. There is mounting clinical evidence that the "repurposing" of existing drugs could offer effective new treatments.
Curated Video
Covid-19: what you need to know about the second wave
The world now faces the threat of a second wave of coronavirus outbreaks. Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, and Slavea Chankova, our health-care correspondent, answer your questions.
Science360
The Mission of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
What is the mission of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs within the National Science Foundation? What is OLPA currently working on and what are its goals for the future? This video explains all the above and shows you what the...
TLDR News
GB News (a British Fox News) Launches in Spring: Is Britain Ready? - TLDR News
Up until now, the UK has managed to keep television news relatively neutral, with all the major players taking an apolitical stance. That looks to change though with GB News and News UK both set to launch this spring, becoming Britain's...
Curated Video
When thoughts control machines
Efforts to connect human brains to computers have taken big leaps forward in recent years. Melding our minds with machines could provide the biggest single upgrade to human intelligence since our species evolved. But are we ready?
Next Animation Studio
North Korea destroys north-south joint liaison office: report
North Korea blew up the joint liaison office in the border city of Kaesong used for bettering ties with South Korea after days of rising tensions on June 16.
TLDR News
Johnson's Growing Anti-Lockdown Rebellion, Biden's Dog Injury & Australia Takes on China -TLDR News
In this episode of the Daily Briefing, we discuss Johnson's struggle to get MPs under control, Biden's foot injury & Australia taking on China over fake news. 00:00 Introduction 00:55 Biden's Foot Injury 02:08 Johnson Takes On...
TLDR News
Office Work Automation: You Aren't Too Creative To Be Replaced
Over recent years we have seen more and more jobs being replaced by robotics. But what will happen when AI comes for white collar and office work? Are you really too creative to be replaced?
Global Health with Greg Martin
Tuberculosis and Global Health
In this episode, we take a closer look at Tuberculosis (TB), its epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. We also look at drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and the relationship between tuberculosis and HIV.
Curated Video
Covid-19: what will happen to the global economy?
The covid-19 pandemic has caused economic chaos and uncertainty. Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, our deputy editor, answer your questions about the global economy
Catalyst University
The Nuclear Pore Complex: Nuclear Import, Export, & RAN
In this video, we discuss the mechanisms by which proteins are targeted to the nucleus (import) and moved from the nucleus to the cytoplasm (export). Collectively, nucleocytoplasmic transport is regulated by the nuclear pore complex and...
The Telegraph
Suzanne Moore on left wing puritanism
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has become the metropolitan elite it was always accused of being. In this week’s Off Script podcast Suzanne Moore joins Steven Edginton to discuss “trans ideology”, Labour’s prospects and freedom of speech.
Curated Video
The Changing Space Race
The space race has changed since the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, into space in 1957. The fight for domination is now between private companies rather than governments.
TLDR News
Is a Brexit Deal Finally Possible? The UK and EU Finally Reach an Agreement - TLDR News
Yesterday the UK and EU finally came to an agreement on how the Northern Ireland/Great Britain border would opperate post-Brexit. This was the issue that led the UK to threaten to break International law with the Internal Market Bill, so...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Rise of Fake News
Robert Faris, Research Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, talks with INET about the surge in misinformation since the 2016 elections.
TLDR News
Trump's Trade War With China - TLDR Explains
TLDR News US Merch Store: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/tldr-news-us Since being elected Trump has imposed thousands of tariffs on a huge variety of products. However, it's his tariffs on China which have got the most attention, with it...
Curated Video
Abortion at sea
Making abortions illegal does not stop them from happening, but it does stop them happening safely. Meet the charity taking women out to international waters where they can have safe abortions without fear of prosecution.
The Telegraph
Glenn Greenwald on why the left-wing media has turned on Biden | Off Script
Twenty years of lies from the military establishment cannot be forgotten. Journalist Glenn Greenwald asks why no one has taken accountability for the Afghanistan debacle and argues for a new system of transparency. Greenwald joins Steven...
The Telegraph
Steven Pinker: Danger of moral panic over “fake news”
Social media companies face a tough choice in censoring their users. Steven Pinker joins Steven Edginton to discuss rationality, big tech companies and conspiracy theories in the latest Off Script podcast. Watch the full episode above or...
Healthcare Triage
Women on Web Move to Increase Access to Abortion Pills in the US
Women on Web is an organization that increases access to pharmaceutical abortion services in countries where those options are limited. The organization has now started a separate service that will fill prescriptions in the United States...