Curated Video
Plants in Extreme Environments: Adaptations for Survival
This video is a lecture presentation on plants in extreme environments. The speaker begins by discussing the resources plants need to survive, such as light, water, carbon dioxide, and mineral ions. The process of photosynthesis is...
Rachel's English
English: A Stress-Timed Language - American Pronunciation
English is a Stress-Timed language. That means you need contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables -- unstressed words may reduce, and will be low in pitch and flatter in shape. In other words, you DON'T pronounce every word...
Healthcare Triage
The Evidence for Low-Fat Diets Isn't Really There
Last week I talked to you about dietary cholesterol, and how the existing randomized controlled trials warned us that they wouldn't work. Now, it appears those guidelines might be changed, decades later. Cholesterol isn't the only...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Water Case Studies
Case studies of companies saving money through reducing water usage, upgrading equipment and installing rain capture systems.
JJ Medicine
Clindamycin | Bacterial Targets, Mechanism of Action, Adverse Effects
Lesson on the antibiotic Clindamycin (cleocin), what bacteria clindamycin targets, the mechanism of action of clindamycin, and adverse effects of clindamycin. Clindamycin is a lincosamide antibiotic that targets anaerobic bacteria well,...
TLDR News
Chlorinated Chicken and Selling the NHS: Does the UK Want A Deal With America - TLDR News
With the UK set to officially leave the EU at the end of the year, many are looking forward to the new deals Britain will be able to strike. Chief amongst them is a deal with the United States. However, some are less keen, concerned...
Visual Learning Systems
Improving Solutions
The video discusses how solutions to problems may not always be complete remedies and may only solve part of the problem. The video explains how scientists and engineers are still working on improving the solution of creating cleaner...
Curated Video
Apache Kafka - Real-time Stream Processing (Master Class) - Streaming Aggregates - Core Concept
In this lecture, you will learn about some core considerations for implementing streaming aggregates. This clip is from the chapter "Real-time Aggregates" of the series "Apache Kafka - Real-time Stream Processing (Master Class)".This...
Curated Video
Chemistry Lab Safety Precautions and Hazards
This video discusses the different hazards and risks that can arise when carrying out chemistry experiments in a laboratory. It provides general safety precautions such as keeping workspaces clear and avoiding eating or drinking in the...
Brian McLogan
Learn how to take the derivative of logarithm inside of logarithm
👉 Learn how to find the derivative of exponential and logarithmic expressions. The derivative of a function, y = f(x), is the measure of the rate of change of the function, y, with respect to the variable x. The process of finding the...
Catalyst University
Pulmonary Pharmacology [Part 2] | Drugs Affecting Inflammation
In this video, we explore the major classes of drug classes that are used in the treatment of pulmonary disorders (asthma and COPD) along with their mechanisms of action. Specifically, we consider the classes of drugs that directly...
3D Print General
Reduce Ghosting in 3D Printing
Ghosting, or echoing/rippling, is a common problem in 3D printing. In this video we explore 4 different reasons this may be occurring and how to reduce it.
Sustainable Business Consulting
Return on Sustainability
Provides case studies and examples of why sustainability provides higher returns for companies and why it is so important to make this business case
Healthcare Triage
Prescription Opioids: Balancing Short Term Pain and Long Term Gain
A new simulation study published in the American Journal of Public Health shows that reducing opioids for short-term pain saves lives in the long run, even as it leaves some patients experiencing more pain. This is the fundamental...
Curated Video
Reductionism
Based around the example of obesity, this film outlines the key ideas underpinning reductionist and holistic approaches in the social sciences.
Healthcare Triage
Can Marijuana Help with Opioid Addiction?
Part 3 of our opioid series supported by the NIHCM Foundation looks at the potential for marijuana to improve outcomes in opioid addiction therapy. Some studies have shown that prescribing marijuana can ease the path to shaking an opioid...
Astrum
Are we sending microbes to alien worlds? Panspermia
With all the focus on the Coronavirus, it made me wonder how viruses would cope in space generally. This led on to other questions like "do we contaminate other worlds with Earth based life?" and "can alien bacteria and viruses thrive...
Healthcare Triage
The Benefits of Paid Sick Leave for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody
Maybe the person working near you, the one who dragged himself to work and is now coughing and sneezing, couldn't afford to stay home. Each week about 1.5 million Americans without paid sick leave go to work despite feeling ill. At least...
The Economist
Covid-19: how bad will it be for the economy?
The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people, crashed stockmarkets around the world, driven 10m Americans to claim unemployment and caused businesses to haemorrhage money. With economies are in turmoil, how bad will the damage...
Rachel's English
Real Life English Conversation: Colorado Mountains -- American English
Study reductions in real life English conversation. See reductions as Americans use them: and, for, at, and more! See beautiful Colorado!
Brian McLogan
What are dilations, similarity and scale factors
👉 Learn about dilations. Dilation is the transformation of a shape by a scale factor to produce an image that is similar to the original shape but is different in size from the original shape. A dilation that creates a larger image is...
Curated Video
Apache Spark 3 for Data Engineering and Analytics with Python - RDD Actions
In this video session, we will explore a couple of Spark actions. This clip is from the chapter "RDD Crash Course" of the series "Apache Spark 3 for Data Engineering and Analytics with Python".This section primarily focuses on RDD...
Learning Mole
Insects and Humans
This video will take students through the relationship that humans have with insects, and how we affect each other.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Diane Ravitch - Reign of Error
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. Diane Ravitch’s Blog is dianeravitch.net and has received more that 17 million hits in 30 months. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant...