Our diets are more global than we realize, because our common food crops and animals were domesticated far away in diverse locations. In this video, Minute Earth observes why the common apple pie is not American and the Pizza isn’t really Italian. [Minute Earth]
De-extinction, or using the power of modern biotechnology to bring back extinct species like mammoths and dinosaurs, would be cool. But is it really as easy as the movies make it look? Or do the cruel hands of time make it impossible? This weel we look at the technical and ethical hurdles behind the science […]
Money laundering is the term for any process that “cleans” illegally obtained funds of their “dirty” criminal origins, allowing them to be used within the legal economy. And the practice is about as old as money itself. But how does it actually work? Delena D. Spann describes the ins and outs of money laundering. [TED […]
Many scientists have attempted to make functional artificial blood in recent years, but the process isn’t quite perfect yet. However, things might be about to change thanks to the UK’s National Health Service and stem cell technology. Learn all about the technology of “Fake Blood” in this interesting episode of the SciShow. [SciShow]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTLBrqcuLBU Chlorosulfonic acid is just like the blood of a xenomorph when applied to an organic substance: it eats its way through it. Chlorosulfonic acid is a super acid, an acid that has an acidity greater than 100% pure sulfuric acid. Chlorosulfuric acid (IUPAC name: sulfurochloridic acid) is the inorganic compound with the formula HSO3Cl. […]
In this video, Youtuber “Today I Found Out” explains the truth about flammable flatulence. That’s right: The science of people setting fire to their farts. Farts are primarily made in two ways – from swallowing air and digesting food. Swallowed air delivers nitrogen and oxygen to the digestive tract, where the latter is mostly, if […]
More than 300 million people around the world suffer from asthma, and around 250,000 people die from it each year. But why do people get asthma, and how can this disease be deadly? Christopher E. Gaw describes the main symptoms and treatments of asthma. [TED Ed]
Watch as Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the universe while eating increasingly spicy wings, starting with the relitively mild sriracha, and ending with Blair’s Mega Death with Liquid Rage hot sauce. Star Talk host, Hayden Planetarium director, and astrophysicist extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson has a brilliant knack for breaking down big scientific ideas to the masses. […]