SYSK Selects: How the Black Death Worked

Borderline Personality Disorder has been described as emotional “third degree burns over ninety percent of your body.” It’s as close to a curse as a personality disorder can be: deep fear of being abandoned creates behaviors that end up driving people off. Learn all about it in t ...  Show more

Data centers are the backbone of our digital world. All the sites you visit and social media you post happen there. A boom in huge data centers to support AI is underway, and they’re taking a big toll on the environment and life for the people around them.See omnystudio.com/liste ...  Show more

The Black Death was the most fatal pandemic in recorded human history, decimating a late Medieval world unaided by the germ theory of disease. In this episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the ways that religion responded to the plague and the effects these e ...  Show more

In the late 1340s, people in cities, towns and villages across the medieval world began to fall ill from a mysterious pestilence. This six part series looks at the how the Black Death shook the Middle Ages, killing millions and transforming societies. Speaking to expert historian ...  Show more

Mettez votre masque, dans cet épisode de Crousti-History, on vous parle de la peste noire !Dans l’Histoire on recense plusieurs épidémies de peste depuis l’Antiquité. Enfin… on dit peste mais en y regardant de plus près ce sont souvent des épidémies d’autres maladies : de choléra ...  Show more

December 2018, 20 year-old Sanda Dia was brought into the emergency room by his so-called “college friends.” He was unconscious and cold to the touch.

His friends did not give doctors any information on what was wrong with him. They didn’t tell doctors that for the past ...