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TED Talks

TED: The era of personal DNA testing is here | Sebastian Kraves

12th - Higher Ed
From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can experiment with DNA at home, in their kitchen, using a device smaller than a shoebox....
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Instructional Video5:52
SciShow

Do Spicy Food Lovers Live Longer?

12th - Higher Ed
Spicy food is delicious, but how does it affect our health?
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Instructional Video7:48
SciShow

Great Minds We Lost in 2012

12th - Higher Ed
Hank pays tribute to some of the great scientific minds we lost in 2012, and then apologizes for some mistakes made in recent SciShow episodes.
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Instructional Video2:06
SciShow

5 Weird Reasons Not to Smoke

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives you five MORE reasons why you should probably avoid smoking, or quit if you already smoke - in addition to those big ones you already know about. These are the weird reasons.
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Instructional Video16:35
TED Talks

TED: How early life experience is written into DNA | Moshe Szyf

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in...
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Instructional Video8:22
Amoeba Sisters

Epigenetics

12th - Higher Ed
You know all about how DNA bases can code for an organism's traits, but did you know there's more influencing phenotype than just the bases? Explore epigenetics with the Amoeba Sisters by learning about a few types of epigenetic marks...
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Instructional Video14:55
TED Talks

TED: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices | Jun Wang

12th - Higher Ed
What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health -- before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to develop digital doppelgangers for real people; they start with genetic code, but...
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Instructional Video10:43
TED Talks

TED: Reinventing the encyclopedia game | Rives

12th - Higher Ed
Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Rives takes us on a charming tour through random (and less random)...
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Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

Could Your Blood Type Ever Change?

12th - Higher Ed
From A positive to O negative, everyone's born with a blood type, and they're stuck with that blood type for their whole lives... or are they?
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Instructional Video14:38
TED Talks

TED: You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies | Bronwyn King

12th - Higher Ed
Tobacco causes more than seven million deaths every year -- and many of us are far more complicit in the problem than we realize. In a bold talk, oncologist Dr. Bronwyn King tells the story of how she uncovered the deep ties between the...
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Instructional Video9:54
SciShow

How 6 Rare Diseases Are Changing Everyday Medicine

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes, studying uncommon maladies can reveal larger insights into how our bodies work! Chapters View all 0:00 0:07 0:14 0:21 0:29 0:36
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Instructional Video9:50
SciShow

7 Super Toxic U.S. Sites

12th - Higher Ed
Let's face it: Humans are pretty messy. Industrial processes like mining and manufacturing are important parts of keeping civilization going, but they all impact the environment. Sometimes that impact is particularly big and messy,...
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Instructional Video2:01
SciShow

5 Reasons Breastfeeding is Awesome

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us the top 5 scientifically documented reasons why breastfeeding is awesome - for both mom and baby.
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Instructional Video12:13
SciShow

Why Do Bats Carry So Many Dangerous Diseases?

12th - Higher Ed
Bats are amazing and not just because they're the only mammal that can fly! But they also carry a lot of diseases that are dangerous to humans, and while that is definitely not their fault, there is actually a lot we can learn from their...
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Instructional Video16:48
TED Talks

TED: The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David

12th - Higher Ed
Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she...
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Instructional Video4:55
SciShow

The Woman Who Changed Drug Development

12th - Higher Ed
From a new method of drug design to an antiviral agent for herpes, Gertrude Elion's works totally transformed the world of drug development.
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Instructional Video6:44
TED Talks

Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement

12th - Higher Ed
Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human-to-human transplants with a novel...
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Instructional Video13:41
TED Talks

TED: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant | Luhan Yang

12th - Higher Ed
For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to create a process for transplanting animal organs into humans, a theoretical dream that could help the hundreds of thousands of people in need of a lifesaving transplant. But the...
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Instructional Video13:08
TED Talks

TED: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection | Alyssa Monks

12th - Higher Ed
Painter Alyssa Monks finds beauty and inspiration in the unknown, the unpredictable and even the awful. In a poetic, intimate talk, she describes the interaction of life, paint and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a...
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Instructional Video3:13
SciShow

Elizabeth Blackburn: Great Minds

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings us the story of Elizabeth Blackburn, the Nobel Prize-winning Australian woman who discovered telomeres and telomerase, and helped scientists begin to understand the process of aging at a genetic level.
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Instructional Video12:56
TED Talks

Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?

12th - Higher Ed
Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in...
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Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

The Man Who Tried to Give Himself An Ulcer... For Science

12th - Higher Ed
In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall had a theory about ulcers that he couldn't convince the science community of. So, he took matters into his own hands... or stomach, and infected himself with a potentially deadly bacterium.
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Instructional Video9:35
Amoeba Sisters

Integumentary System

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters on this introduction to the Integumentary System! This video first introduces the important functions of this system. Then, this video takes a general tour through the epidermis (and each stratum of the...
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Instructional Video11:09
TED Talks

Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research

12th - Higher Ed
Believe it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and...

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