Do Gut Microbes Control Your Personality? | Kathleen McAuliffe | TED
AdultsBiologyHealthHumanNeuroscienceBiologist Kathleen McAuliffe dives into new research that suggests certain bacteria in your gut can influence major parts of who you are, from your personality to life-changing neurological disorders.
Can a Simple Brick Be the Next Great Battery?
AdultsEducationScienceTechnologyEnvironmentBiologyThe world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use.
Can you trust your memory? This neuroscientist isn’t so sure | André Fenton
AdultsBiologyHealthPsychologyNeuroscienceThere are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
How Did Life Begin? (Evolutionary History): Crash Course Biology #16
AdultsEducationScienceSelfBiologyEvolutionHumans may have been around for a long time, but life has existed for way longer. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll journey through deep time to uncover the history of life on Earth.
How Species Make and Break Friendships
AdultsAnimalsHumanLifeScienceBiologyEcologyCommunity ecology is the study of interactions between different species of living things, and lets ecologists examine the effects of predator-prey relationships, parasites, and mutually beneficial interactions. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll examine the myriad interspecies interactions with examples, see how keystone species impact their environment and explore how communities rebuild when they are disrupted, through the lens of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceDisabilityHealthSocietyWhen does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceHealthAn undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
Neuroscientist debunks ‘lizard brain’ myth | Lisa Feldman Barrett
AdultsAnimalsBiologyHumanNeurosciencePsychologyPlato famously described the human psyche as two horses and a charioteer: One horse represented instincts, the other represented emotions, and the charioteer was the rational mind that controlled them.
What Biologists Do: Crash Course Biology
AdultsBiologyBiotechnologyEducationScienceA biologist’s natural habitat is anywhere questions about life are being asked—whether the subject is a nematode or a narwhal, a single cell, or a whole ecosystem.
Are Life-Saving Medicines Hiding in the World’s Coldest Places?
AdultsEnvironmentLifeNatureScienceBiologyCould the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold.