Humanity’s Deadliest Diseases | Wondrium Perspectives

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Throughout the course of history, humanity has been marked by epidemics that wreak havoc on individuals, communities, and entire societies.
In this episode of Perspectives, five experts delve into some of the deadliest diseases that have shaped our world, and their far-reaching consequences.
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Clips in this video are from the following series on Wondrium:

What Darwin Didn’t Know: The Modern Science of Evolution, presented by Scott Solomon

The Medieval Legacy, presented by Carol Symes

An Introduction to Infectious Diseases, presented by Barry C. Fox

The Middle Ages around the World, presented by Joyce E. Salisbury

The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, presented by Dorsey Armstrong
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00:00 Intro
00:42 The Evolution of HIV
05:47 Influenza: An Annual Threat
10:15 Smallpox: An Ancient Plague
16:09 The Devastation of the Black Death
19:57 The Social Impact of the Black Death
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[peterwilliams]

Living with an incurable disease is so hard, but you just have to live life day by day as it goes by (Cancer sucks)...

[rhiahlMT]

While I always enjoy Dorsey Armstrong's discussions on the Black Death, I wonder when the recent research by the French on Yersinia Pestis and the impact of body lice is going to come into the discussions on it. It was really eye opening.

[TheBillythepoet]

The 1918 "Spanish" flu started outside an army base in Kansas.

[t.anthony]

Easy to learn, not hard to follow. Reminds me of my middle school teaching!!

[arlistyner]

That would be Humanity's - the possessive form of Humanity. "Humanities" are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. If you're going to do educational content, speeling matters.

[paurushbhatnagar]

There was another reason for epidemic mass killing of cats

[silentwilly]

No expert on the matter, but to me it sounds like the video suffers from serious recency bias.

[sussekind]

Pharaohs from 10, 000 B.C.E.?
The first pharaoh of Egypt, Narmer (AKA Menes), reigned starting from 3407 to 3346 B.C.E.
Civilization didn't even begin there until around 6, 000 B.C.E.
This is easily accessible information.
On top of that, this is not the only mistake I have seen in this video. In fact there were actually too many to mention.
For an educational program, you should really get your facts straight. Maybe some double fact checking and editing before you release these kinds of videos?
Very disappointed.

[dillardc]

The universal basic income pitch at the end was a real turd in the punch bowl.

[stellarwind]

I turned the video off when they called Spanish Flu xenophobic.

[BecomingLizzyBlue]

Ummm, did she say global cooling?? And then that tangent about not just universal healthcare, but universal income. I’ve yet to have a supporter answer one simple question. If everyone is being paid by the government, who’s providing the income? The closest I’ve gotten is the wealthy would pay for it. So not actually universal income, but just expanding the welfare system and thus widening the income gap further. Good plan. And yet another Wondrium video ruined by personal political opinions. How do these people not get that they just threw their credibility out the window?