Other medias

What do I listen to? 

Sometimes, listening is a better way to learn. It is accessible everywhere. We can listen to podcasts, TED talks, interviews, etc., everywhere we want. By listening to the same subject we would have read, we can benefit from another form of media to improve our learning. 

1. Weinberger, Leor. (2020, March). Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/leor_weinberger_can_we_create_vaccines_that_mutate_and_spread

This TED talk is really interesting since it relates to our current problem: the variant. Indeed, COVID-19 has started to mutate even with the vaccine. Of course, COVID-19 is not the only virus to mutate. We have vaccines to treat such viruses... However, viruses tend to grow smart and to mutate evading the effects of our vaccines... What if our vaccines could mutate at the same time as the viruses? If we could make such a vaccine that would be able to mutate along with a virus, we could overcome the drug resistance. 

This TED talk is presented by the virologist Leor Weinberger. He is recognized as the one who discovered the HIV latency circuit, and he also initiated the concept of Therapeutic Interfering Particles, or “TIPs”, which are resistance-proof antivirals. In this TED talk, Leor Weinberger shares a new type of medical treatment, "hijacker therapy". It could attack, modify and spread alongside a virus. At some point, it could treat afflicted individuals and slow down infections such as HIV and COVID-19.

Just what we need right now. 

2. Kuth, James. Dr James Kuht's Blog - Exploring the intersection between exponential technologies, healthcare and the military. https://drjk.co.uk/military-medicine-podcast/

This one is a complete podcast about military medicine. In each episode, the hosts of the podcast have new things to introduce. They interview professionals in the field to talk about the main subject of the episode. It can be about new medical procedures as it can be about new ways to treat people. They can talk about innovation as they can talk about big problems such as EBOLA. It is really interesting since each episode is about a different subject. The listeners are informed about subjects that are not really known in the common world. 

The podcast is presented by James Kuht. He joined the Royal Air Force in 2007 before attending Oxford University to study Medicine. After his studies, he started teaching himself how to build web applications, refreshing his stats, and learning some Machine Language (ML). After building an ML-powered decision aid to help Field Medic diagnose NFCI (foot damage who those in the military are mostly affected by), he was recruited by jHub which is a "secretive" innovation lab. He started to work on a few innovations projects within the military. He has now returned to clinical medicine without stopping working on his multiple podcasts.