TED-Ed How do heart transplants work?

From: TED-Ed - Sunday May 29, 2022 02:02 pm

How do heart transplants work?

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How does heart transplant surgery work?
By Roni Shanoada, directed by Alexia Roider, Zedem Media
Your heart beats more than 100,000 times a day. In just a minute, it pumps over five liters of blood throughout your body. But unlike skin and bones, the heart has a limited ability to repair itself. So if this organ is severely damaged, there’s often only one medical solution: replacing it. Roni Shanoada explores how this complex and intricate procedure works.

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Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide
By Timothy Williams, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet
From 1975 to 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea ruled Cambodia with an iron fist, perpetrating a genocide that killed one fourth of the country’s population. Roughly one million people were executed as suspected political enemies or due to their ethnicities, and another million died of starvation, disease, or overwork. How did this happen? Timothy Williams details the rise of the Khmer Rouge.

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