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Why This Medical Saw Can’t Cut Your Skin

Why This Medical Saw Can’t Cut Your Skin

Medical professionals use a special power saw to cut through casts when it’s time to remove them. While the high-speed saw blade slices effortlessly through a hardened cast, it does nothing to your body if it makes contact with your skin. Steve Mould investigates the physics that allows this ingenious device to work without causing bodily harm.

mbarc Aluminum Pill Organizer

mbarc Aluminum Pill Organizer
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The medicine and vitamins we take help keep us alive and healthy. So why should you carry something so important in a cheap plastic case? The mbarc is a modern pill organizer made from aluminum with wood trim. It has seven compartments and a silicone closure on its drawer to seal out moisture. They also make an XL version.

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Toxicologist Rates Movies and TV Realism

Toxicologist Rates Movies and TV Realism

From snake venom to bad foraging to intentional poisonings, characters in movies and TV shows are often exposed to toxins. Insider asked medical toxicologist Dr. Cyrus Rangan to evaluate scenes for their accuracy. The video includes scenes from Game of Thrones, The Princess Bride, The Hunger Games, and Breaking Bad.

How the Immune System (Really) Works

How the Immune System (Really) Works

Kurzgesagt provides a layperson’s explanation of human immunity, the amazing and complex system that helps keep us alive – and sometimes needs a little help to build a memory against disease. Be sure to check out Kursgesagt’s new book Immune for more on the topic, and keep your eyes peeled for episode 2.

Never Remove a Pointy Object

Never Remove a Pointy Object

It’s a trope we’ve seen in movies and TV shows over and over. Someone gets impaled or shot with an arrow, and their instinct is to yank it out. TikTok contributor and paramedic StolenAmbulance demonstrates us in very simple terms why that’s a terrible idea.

Candy Shop

Candy Shop

Like many inventions, pharmaceuticals are a double-edged sword. Some have saved and improved millions of lives, while others have caused terrible side-effects and dangerous, deadly addictions. Patrick Smith’s rapidfire short film offers a satirical commentary on our obsession with drugs without saying a word.

HelloMask Transparent Mask

HelloMask Transparent Mask

Beyond the comfort issues, one of the reasons people don’t like wearing masks is that it covers their face. Engineers from EPFL’s EssentialTech Center and Empa have developed a mask that both acts as a filter and is transparent. The trick is the weave, made from incredibly thin nanofibers, woven together using electrospinning.

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ER Doc Breaks Down Movie Injuries

ER Doc Breaks Down Movie Injuries

All kinds of bad things happen to people in the movies. But we all know that fiction can exaggerate what people can live through in the interest of drama. Emergency physician Italo Brown is here to set us straight on the survivability of film boo-boos from Scarface to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Never Google Your Symptoms

Never Google Your Symptoms

We’ve all been there at one point or another. You’re feeling off, and you’ve got an unusual mix of symptoms that you can’t quite figure out. Swedish physician and novelty musician Henrik Widegren reminds us about the worst possible thing you can do when you’re sick. From the album Medical Melodies And Surgical Songs.

What If You Never Felt Pain?

What If You Never Felt Pain?

Whether it’s a bee sting or a kick in the groin, pain sucks. But we need these unpleasant sensations so we know when something is wrong or when to avoid danger. Life Noggin explores the nature of pain, and some conditions which prevent people from feeling it.

Blowfish for Hangovers

Blowfish for Hangovers

Drink too much last night? Drop a couple of these fizzy tablets into a glass of water, and an effective combination of aspirin and caffeine will have you feeling good as new in about 15 minutes. Save 20% on a 20-dose pack in The Awesomer Shop.

If You Lived 1000 Years

If You Lived 1000 Years

Meet Arnold, the king of animated hypotheticals is here to explore what might happen to us if we actually could cure aging, and live at least 10 times longer we can today. The result isn’t all butterflies and lollipops. Also, nice segue to the sponsorship, guys.

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Simon Giertz’s Brain Surgery

Simon Giertz’s Brain Surgery

(PG-13: Language) We love Simone Giertz for all of the wonderfully sh*tty robots she’s given us. But not too long ago, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Well, the good news is that she’s on the mend from the scary procedure to remove it, and is here to share her story.

Pre-industrial Surgeries

Pre-industrial Surgeries

If you’re squeamish about the possibility of having a surgery, one look at Sam O’Nella Academy’s history lesson on how these procedures worked before modern medicine should give you plenty of perspective and a more positive outlook on your prognosis.

How Does Anesthesia Work?

How Does Anesthesia Work?

If you’ve ever had surgery, you know the strange sensation of counting backwards, then basically remembering until you wake up in recovery. TED-Ed explains the science behind modern anesthesia, and how they keep you from moving, feeling pain, or forming memories.

Singing in an MRI

Singing in an MRI

A fascinating look at inner workings of vocalist Anna-Maria Hefele’s head and neck as she performs in a mix of regular and overtone singing. University Medical Center Freiburg, Institute for Musician’s Medicine captured a whole DVD of various vocal techniques.

Could We Cure Aging?

Could We Cure Aging?

Kurzgesagt follows up their earlier clip about the moral and ethical dilemmas of longer life with a video about scientific developments which could extend our lives – or the quality of our healthy years – much sooner than you might think.

Should We End Aging Forever?

Should We End Aging Forever?

Kurzgesagt teamed up with CGPGrey to explore the moral, ethical, and practical concerns about our longevity as humans, and whether being able to control our mortality is a good or a bad thing. Be sure to watch the second part here.

I Just Do Eyes

I Just Do Eyes

Super Deluxe introduces us to Eric Lindsey of Prosthetic Artists, Inc. to go inside the artistry of creating prosthetic eyes for people who have lost theirs. Each eye must not only be perfectly fitted, but must be precisely painted to match the patient’s natural eye characteristics.

Do Glasses Ruin Your Eyesight?

Do Glasses Ruin Your Eyesight?

It’s a question many of us who have worn glasses have pondered – does the simple fact that we started wearing glasses when our eyes were only slightly blurry make our vision worse, or is it just age working against us? SciShow explores this myth and sets the record straight.

The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking

The Uncomfortable Effort of Thinking

Veritasium explores the work our brains perform to process information, and how the shortcuts our minds automatically take can lead to mistakes. Bottom line is that study and practice are key to improving our brains’ ability to reach sound, but quick conclusions.

The Paper Centrifuge

The Paper Centrifuge

It may look like a kid’s toy, but this simple contraption made from paper and string provides scientists in less developed areas with access to a critical piece of lab equipment at virtually no cost, and with no need for electricity.

The Man with Two Robot Arms

The Man with Two Robot Arms

Les Baugh lost both of his arms in a freak accident about 40 years ago. Now scientists from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have fitted him with two robotic limbs, which can be controlled wirelessly using his own thoughts.

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