Videos

The future of food production: Insects – All the nutritional value you need, without out the environmental complications.    Ever heard of insect flour?

200 square meters of land is required to grow a pound of beef,  but it only takes 15 square meters to grow one pound of crickets.

As fresh water diminishes the fact that 1 kilogram of beef requires 22,000 liters of water to produce while that of a cricket only requires 1 liter, yes one liter.  Additionally we only consume 40% of a cow where we could consume 80% of a cricket.

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What does origami and telescopes have in common? Well the replacement telescope for the hubble is so large is need to be folded in order to be launched.  Watch the video.

http://www.microscopyu.com/moviegallery/c1si/mitosiseb3/index.html

Check out this video of cell division.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZD4a2Z1PI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgCQgzJOU4

The Coca-Cola Company does a lot of bad things.  But this time they have invented a set of tools to make their empty bottles more useful.  Watch the video.

Have you ever noticed trucks carrying gas bottles.  What is the worst that can happen? This video shows a car accident followed by explosion after explosion.  Be careful out there.

Source: Facebook

Plants communicate with each other both above and below ground as described in this video, and it is pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IjaZ2g-21E

Remember the 19 year old who designed a machine to remove plastic from the ocean? Well he needs your help. He is crowd funding his project and has made fantastic progress shown in this video.  Fund the clean up here:  http://www.theoceancleanup.com/

A pendulum hanging from the ceiling of van, a helium balloon tethered to the floor …  Which direction do they both move when you accelerate? Try to answer before watching the video.

Dr Jamie Seymour,  ‘toxinologist’, was on the boat when Steve Irwin died.  Listen to Jamie talk about that, and how amazing steve was.  Interview provided by Destin who has the awesome SmarterEveryDay show.