Fascinating biology: 9 lectures on the human body
Alexandra Savina
We will not tire of repeating that it is never too late to learn new things - as well as recall the course of the school program. We have already talked about books that will help deal with the device of the human body, and now we offer to switch to video tutorials. We have collected several clips and lectures on various topics - about aging, scars, microbes living inside us and not only - which will help to learn more about our body as a whole, the capabilities of the organism and its individual organs.
How organs work
If you want to improve the basic knowledge of a particular topic or remember the school course of anatomy, there is no better place than the Khan Academy. The non-profit organization has a whole course devoted to the anatomy and physiology of man, which details the different systems of the body. If you don’t have the strength and desire to study anatomy in detail, you can stop at a video lesson about one of the organs - for example, about the heart or the reproductive system. The only negative is that there are no Russian subtitles, so you will have to arm yourself with a confident knowledge of English or a dictionary.
What is aging
Alexander Panchin is a biologist, scientific journalist and writer who won the Enlightenment Award for the book "The Sum of Biotechnology." On his YouTube channel, he collects selected lectures - in one of them he tells what aging is, what kind of research there is in this area and whether it is possible to slow down or stop the process altogether. In the video, Panchin speaks not only and not so much about the human body, as about the data on other animals - but they will be interesting to everyone, because they help us to understand whether we will be able to increase the duration of our lives.
Scars, fever and restless legs
Hank Green, one of the authors of the popular YouTube channel Crash Course, is also working on the SciShow channel. On SciShow there is a playlist of short videos on biology, in which you can find answers to non-obvious and stupid questions about the human body - for example, what happens in the body, if you endure for a long time and do not go to the toilet, why the temperature stays around 37 degrees, how scars appear , what is the syndrome of restless legs and not only. There are also longer videos here - for example, about why we are aging and whether it is possible to stop it (hello Panchin).
How will we look in a hundred years
The TED website is a storehouse of fascinating lectures on a variety of topics. In this video, futurologist Juan Enriquez talks about human evolution and how we ourselves have influenced and influence our own organisms, incidentally recalling the history of prosthetics and talking about modern transplant and genetics experiments. The main question is whether it is ethical to try to transform the human body and how much people will have to change if we want to survive as a species.
How our body works
TED-ed is another TED creator channel with short tutorials. In the Getting Under Our Skin playlist, more than a hundred videos about the human body are carefully collected. Unlike the SciShow commercials, there are more common topics - for example, how the kidneys function, how wounds heal and how painkillers work. There is also an answer to the question that concerns many people, why some people see transparent flying strips before their eyes. A nice bonus is that there are Russian subtitles for videos.
How are tumors and evolution related
Andrei Kozlov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, in his Postnauka lecture discusses one of the most important public health issues - tumors. The scientist hypothesized that tumors can play a large role in the evolution of organisms: new genes can be activated and begin to function in them.
How our brain works
BrainCraft is the YouTube channel of Vanessa Hill’s science popularizer. Through paper animation, Hill talks about the brain, psychology, neuroscience, and human behavior. Among the questions Vanessa raises are, for example, does Google kill your memory, how brain training helps to improve athletic performance and how many cases we can actually do at the same time.
Why do we need microbes
On the YouTube channel of the Royal Institution of Great Britain you can find both short popular science clips and lecture notes that the organization arranges. We advise you to pay attention to Ed Yong - a journalist and author of the book "I Contain Multitudes: Trillions of microbes live in our bodies - and although we are accustomed to believe that some of them harm us and others are beneficial, in fact there are no “good” and “bad” among them. Ed Jong says that until relatively recently, microbes were given unfairly little attention - and tells you what role bacteria played in evolution and how they affect our health.
From proteins to drugs
The series of small rollers of the Oxford University is devoted not only to the structure of the human body. It begins with a story about how our cells transmit information and what role proteins play in our bodies, and then proceeds to how this knowledge helps us to understand why our body succumbs to illness, as well as to create more advanced medicines.
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