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20 Years of Lies: The Mad Cow BSE Scandal | Plainly Difficult Documentary
Learn with Plainly Difficult! The Mad Cow Disease scandal was the British Governments attempt to cover up the link between beef and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) Which would result in thousands being exposed to the illness…… Thank you to my … Continue reading
Coffee: The future of coffee growing and production | DW Documentary
Coffee production is no longer what it was thanks to innovative growers and brave farmers. Coffee can now be grown using methods that promote biodiversity in fields, plantations and forests, while also ensuring that farmers earn more. David Benitez is … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
How ‘fingerprinting’ technology could help prevent another horse meat scam. Professor Chris Elliott is something of a ‘food detective’. A Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology at Queen’s University Belfast and a founding director of its Institute for Global Food … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – Made of Stronger Stuff, Taste
Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body. Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body, asking what our insides can reveal about our lives and the … Continue reading
This Parasitic Plant Stole Over 100 Genes From Other Plants | SciShow News
[…] Plants may not seem like they live the most exciting lives, but two new papers published this week point to different types of plants that are actually very cunning and manipulative. One, the parasitic dodder, steals both nutrients and … Continue reading
The 1918 Pandemic Never Ended
[…] The 1918 pandemic infected over 500 million people, but the virus that caused it didn’t stop in 1918. Hosted by: Stefan Chin […]
“The Red List”: Biodiversity loss and food – Unearthed – Journeys Into The Future of Food
Advolly Richmond is exploring how food production methods and climate change today are exacerbating issues of biodiversity loss. As conditions change and human activity intervenes with environments, entire ecosystems are thrown out of balance, and the consequences for species are … Continue reading
We owe everything to Earth’s tilt | Sasha Sagan
Rituals come not only from religion but from the way Earth spins around the Sun. ❍ Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: https://bit.ly/welcometothewell ❍ Up next: Michio Kaku: Is God a mathematician? https://youtu.be/Kfq50Vs2gG4 Many of humanity’s cultural traditions are based … Continue reading
ANCIENT DISEASE: How Healthy Were the Ancient Romans (audio fix)
How healthy, or rather, how unhealthy, were ancient people? The Roman Empire was famed for its plumbing systems and aqueducts, but what did the nutritional levels of the population look like? These are questions to which new methods, drawn from … Continue reading
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