SciShow Videos about COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines

[tippetariuswrites]

I went looking for videos that explain how mRNA vaccines work, and why we were able to develop effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 so quickly. These two by SciShow are really informative yet easy to follow. I remember watching some of Hank Green's Crash Course Biology videos back in 2012, and I'm glad he's still out there making videos to help demystify science.

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Hank Green

[oldtoadwoman]

I think my favorite Hank Green project is the YouTube channel Journey to the Microcosmos. He does this uncharacteristically relaxed narration of amoebas floating around.

Re: Hank Green

[tippetariuswrites]

Thanks, I didn't know about this series! I just watched one about a dying ciliate. Pretty heavy stuff, the way he talks about the death of this little speck of life and then relates it to the death coming for us all. Now I'm moving onto the one about how microorganisms pee.

Man, I've watched an awful lot of videos today.

Re: Hank Green

[oldtoadwoman]

I never think about how many videos I watch until I'm trying to recommend something to someone and I can't recall the name of the video, but I think to myself, "I just watched that. It'll be faster to just open up my History and scroll down." And... it's never faster.

[unavee]

Thanks for sharing these! I liked the writing, and Hank Green's delivery was very clear and -- kind of uplifting and reassuring? And yeah, they packed an impressive amount of info in there and yet it was still easy to follow. I'd heard of SciShow before but hadn't looked at their content; I'm going to check out more of their videos.

[tippetariuswrites]

Glad you enjoyed these too, and yes, that captures exactly what I was struggling to say. I came away from other videos feeling like my understanding of the vaccines was still pretty shallow. It was the SciShow ones that made me think, oh, cool, now I get it!