Monday, September 27, 2010

MEDICAL SPECIALTY

4.  How Bacteria Communicate (TED video 18.11)
Vocabulary to pre-load:
                bioluminescence
                symbiotic
                circadian rhythm
                synchronicity
                anomoly
                virulence
                species specificity
                intra and inter
                census
                Esparanto
                antibiotics
                mutants
                drug-resistance
                lexicon

This video, along with the vocabulary study, are a lesson unto themselves.  Perhaps you can have a teacher-led discussion in which the students are asked how/what/why Dr. Bassler used these words/what they have to do with the lecture.

3.  What's an Audiologist? (Article)

2.  Sound Health in 8 Steps (TED video; 7.15)

1.  Electro-Shock Therapy (TED video: 22.22)
This one is best for mature students.
Language Warning
Note:  Bovine Stercus means "b.s.".
Links to Pre-load Definitions:
Grand Mal Seizures
Schizophrenia
Lobotomy