Healthcare Triage
Does Better Education Mean Better Health?
Many, many studies have associated better and more education with better health outcomes? But which way does the causality go? Do people attain more education because they're healthy? Or maybe those who are in a economic position to...
Next Animation Studio
The Venezuelan tanker has been parked in the ocean for nearly two years, carrying around 1.3 million barrels of oil.
The unbalanced tanker carries about five times the amount of oil that the Exxon Valdez famously spilled in 1989. If it sinks, the environmental pollution would be catastrophic and would affect the region for decades to come.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
This Week in History, March 24-29
Overview of the events of March 24-29. Exxon Valdez Alaska oil spill; fire at the Triangle shirtwaist factory; Cleopatra reinstated as queen of Egypt; Constantinople renamed Istanbul; Three Mile Island nuclear disaster
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oil Spill: Exxon Valdez, 1989
This video segment adapted from NOVA follows the clean-up effort after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska. Also featured is a marsh where an oil spill occurred 20 years earlier; analysis suggests that environmental...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: How Big Is the Oil Spill?
In this video adapted from 'Need to Know,' artist Steve Brodner uses simple drawings to compare the size of the 2010 BP oil spill to more familiar things, like a football field, a shopping mall, the state of Texas, and Earth's moon....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oil Contamination Affects Food Web
This video adapted from KTOO explores the impact of oil contamination on the herring population of Prince William Sound, Alaska, in 1999, 10 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.3m 03s
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Bio Inspiration: Hair Mats
Hairdresser Phil McCrory had an idea twenty years ago while watching news footage of the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Human hair absorbs oil naturally, why not in large oil spills? Hair mats and hair booms were created and...
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Exxon Valdez Xprize
This video was produced by youth from the Chabot Space and Science Center's Galaxy Explorers. It is the winning video from the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge Video Contest sponsored by Wendy Schmidt, Blue Planet Water Solutions...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: How Does Biotechnology Help Clean Up the Environment?
The objective of this lesson is to introduce students to one of the most important issues affecting human life and health in the 21st century, the application of modern biotechnology to the problems of environmental pollution. [22:51]...