Ten Great Ideas: Radiation and Cancer
| Cancer | ||
| What is cancer? | Link | Wikipedia |
| What do cancer cells look like? | From cellslider.net | |
The Cell Spotting project |
Link | play with the programme and contribute freely. The program itself is in the 'Web References' section |
| Why Don't We All Have Cancer? | Vsauce on YouTube. 4 mins | |
| The cancer gene we all have Within every cell in our body, two copies of a tumor suppressor gene called BRCA1 are tasked with regulating the speed at which cells divide. |
Michael Windelspecht explains how these genes can sometimes mutate, making those cells less specialized and more likely to develop into cancer. |
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| Why We Haven't Cured Cancer | Link | SciShow on YouTube. 9 mins |
| Why Don't We All Have Cancer? | Link | Vsauce on YouTube. 9 mins |
How does cancer spread through the body? |
Ivan Seah Yu Jun explains the three common routes of metastasis. |
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| Cannibalism, Zombies & Suicidal Cells: The Latest In Cancer Research | Link | YouTube 4 mins from Scishow |
| Can we eat to starve cancer? William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: antiangiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. |
The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game. TED-Ed on YouTube. 20 mins |
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| Cell versus virus: a battle for health | TED-Ed on YouTube. 4 mins | |
| How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? |
The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer’s “strength” — and also its weakness.TED-Ed on YouTube. 4 mins |
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| What happens when your DNA is damaged? | Link | TED-Ed on YouTube. 5 mins |
| Why it's time to ditch the word "cancer" Brilliant piece from a former president of the Association of Surgeons | "While suffering and death are newsworthy, the stories of the thousands who are quietly cured never reach the headlines." Text-based from the New Statesman. | |
| Why we may never win the war against cancer | Blog post from wired.com | |
| The incredible story of the HeLa cell | YouTube. 54 mins | |
| Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes | Text-based, from The Irish Times | |
| Luck Is A Bigger Factor In Cancer Development Than Lifestyle Or Genetics | Link | Another take on the same report, this time from iflcience.com. If you survive cancer, you didn't fight harder than those who died. You were lucky. People who die don't "fail". |
| Radiation | ||
| Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms | Veritasium. YouTube. 3 mins | |
| Radiation dose chart - in a 'very' user-friendly format | Link | From xkcd.com |
Ionisation animation |
Explaning what is meant by the term ionising radiation | |
Tissue penetration |
Simple animation showing radiation passing through skin tissue | |
UV radiation on skin |
Simple animation showing uv radiation passing through skin layers | |
alpha, beta gamma radiation penetration |
Simple animation showing different types of radiation passing through skin layers | |
| Misconceptions to do with radiation from nuclear powerplants | One of my old blogposts from thinkforyourself.ie | |
| Chernobyl: the legacy | A related short blogpost from thinkforyourself.ie | |
| How Adi Roche and the Chernobyl children project misrepresent science | ||
| Radiation and cancer | ||
| Misconceptions about Chernobyl | Blogpost I wrote on this subject some time back | |
| Is radiation dangerous? | Link | YouTube. 5 mins |
| How damaging is radiation? | 1veritasium. YouTube. 4 mins | |
| Giving Thanks For Radiation | "And so began a battle between what I knew and what I feared." Text-based from a cancer patient. From npr.org | |
| Did you know that the first guy to propose and use radiation to treat cancer was Irish? | From Mary Mulvihill in The Irish Times | |
| Video: every nuclear detonation on Earth in 2 minutes: | Link | YouTube. 2 mins. Sobering viewing |
| Top 10 Cancer Documentaries Of All Time | I haven't seen these, so can't vouch for the ever so slightly over-the-top headline. From foodmatters.tv | |
| What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? | Link | Classic. From xkcd.com |