Yesterday’s edition of Healthcare Triage looks at the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare,” one year after its less-than-spectacular launch: Link: http://youtu.be/v-LzLGjNi18 The speaker is Aaron Carroll MD, a pediatrician who also blogs and vlogs about healthcare. You can read his … Continue reading
John Oliver and his associates at HBO’s Last Week Tonight have come up with a brilliant way to make coverage of the Supreme Court more watchable: Link: http://youtu.be/fJ9prhPV2PI The raw footage to let you make your own Supreme Court videos … Continue reading
Diana Zuckerman has an important blog post on the member’s website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As she points out, Congress has taken some action — and is considering more — to promote the development of … Continue reading
Shepard Smith on Fox News spends just a few minutes explaining why it makes no sense for people in the United States to panic over their tiny risk of contracting Ebola: Link: http://youtu.be/Z2KBfynW09I As Smith says in the clip above, … Continue reading
The XKCD web comic offers not just comic strips but often some quite interesting and informative graphics. Here’s yet another example: The associated title text (what you see if you hover your mouse pointer over the image) reads, “People often … Continue reading
A caution before you watch this: If you have some good reason not to get seriously angry right now — perhaps high blood pressure or you need to get to bed soon — don’t watch this, because it will very … Continue reading
Wow, is this good. I started to watch it the other day and had a connection problem so I only just got around to viewing it. (Thanks to my brother Tom for recommending it, by the way.) In just a … Continue reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron performs a Conservative Party rap with the help of some heavy-duty editing by a YouTuber calling himself CassetteBoy. Contains some naughty language (see the lyric below). Probably not safe for work, but that of course … Continue reading
The Veritasium YouTube channel produced the following short video responding to 13 misconceptions about global warming in about 30 seconds each: Link: http://youtu.be/OWXoRSIxyIU Click above for links to additional information. The video is quite good, but it omits (presumably for … Continue reading
I’ve held the Miss America pageant in contempt for decades. It doesn’t bother me so much that it’s a beauty contest but that it pretends to be a scholarship program. (I can see awarding scholarships based on need or merit, … Continue reading