Why is biodiversity so important? – TED Ed
Biodiversity, short for biological diversity, is the term we use for the variety of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and other intertwined life forms within any ecosystem… “from towering redwood trees...
View ArticleReverse Therapy – Unchopping, Unshelling, & Unpeeling in 4K
From the team at Wryfield Lab, enjoy some Reverse Therapy in 4K that helps us look at some everyday activities in a new way. Above, [un]chopping tomatoes. Below, [un]shelling peanuts, and [un]peeling...
View ArticleThe Remarkable Way We Eat Pizza – Numberphile
You may never look at a pizza or an orange in the same way again. Watch as astronomer, author, and teacher Cliff Stoll explains the Theorema Egregium or the Remarkable Theorem in this Numberphile vid....
View ArticleWhy are there so many types of apples?
Gala, Braeburn, Fuji, SweeTango, SnapDragon, Golden Delicious, Cosmic Crisp… there are over 7,500 known cultivars—varieties produced by selectively breeding desirable characteristics—of the apple. How...
View ArticleHow Does it Grow? Pumpkins
“The U.S. harvests five hundred million pounds of a food we have no intention of eating…” and if we did decide to eat this particular variety of food, it wouldn’t taste like what we’d expect. In this...
View ArticleEveryday Objects In Macro
Take a good look at these everyday objects up close… the colors, the textures, the scratches or bits of dust and dirt. Can you guess what the objects are before the camera zooms out? This is Everyday...
View ArticleHow Does it Grow? Raspberries
Raspberries are delicious and delicate! They grow on brambles, prickly shrubs that grow from roots that can live for 20 years. Their pollinated flowers transform into the fragile fruit, which is...
View ArticleHydnora africana, the strangest plant in the world?
With no leaves and no chlorophyll, Southern Africa’s Hydnora africana is a underground-dwelling parasitic plant in that gets all of its sugars, minerals, and water by attaching to the roots of...
View ArticleHow Does It Grow? Oranges
What kind of oranges have you been eating and how do you know when they’re ripe? In this episode of True Food’s How Does It Grow? video series, we visit Oceanside, California’s Sundance Organics, a...
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California Ripe Olives: From Orchard to Store Shelf
Black olives don’t start out black. The process that turns this fruit black was invented by Freda Ehmann in Oakland, California during the mid-1890s, and even green olives from the tree go through...
View ArticleHow Does It Grow? Blueberries
Wild blueberries are native to the Americas, from forests in the Andes Mountains northward to the Arctic tundra. They were an important part of the food, culture, and medicinal practices of North...
View ArticleSimple summertime blueberry (or almost any fruit) crumble
Summer blueberries, sugar, salt, lemon juice, and a thickener like corn starch or flour. Top that yum with a separate mix of rolled oats, all purpose flour, salt, and baking powder plus a mix of butter...
View ArticleCarving a spooky goblin face, a 3D pumpkin time lapse
Lenny Calvin is an artist, sculptor, master carpenter, and a Halloween Wars alum who creates spooky 3D pumpkins as a professional pumpkin carver every Halloween season. In the time-lapse above, he...
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Dinara Kasko’s incredible edible geometric cakes
Ukrainian pastry artist Dinara Kasko creates incredible-looking edible cakes that are inspired by geometry, architecture, sculpture, and technology. For a 2017 ‘ruby chocolate’ event in Shanghai, she...
View ArticleHow to make a Pumpkin Piano (using a Makey Makey)
How do you make a piano out of pumpkins? In this autumnal video, Maddie Moate and Greg Foot create a pumpkin piano with the help of a Makey Makey plug, clip, and play invention kit. We also get a quick...
View ArticleSmashing stuff with neodymium magnets
What happens to a cluster of grapes when it’s in between two large, very strong and potentially dangerous neodymium magnets as they collide? Science presenter Kevin Delaney and his team demonstrate the...
View ArticleWilliam Wegman, The Dog Photographer
Welcome to Wegman’s Wild World of Weimaraners, where dogs bake cakes and lounge like royalty. Known to the world as the “dog photographer,” William Wegman has spent the past 45 years dressing and...
View ArticleHow to Make Tomato Paste in Sicily
At the end of last summer I spent five glorious days in Sicily learning how to put sunshine in a jar. It’s easy. Take a ridiculously large amount of perfectly ripe Sicilian tomatoes. Cut them up. Leave...
View ArticleHow To Make Geometric Pies by lokokitchen
Self-taught baker Lauren Ko creates geometric pies and shares them on her popular Instagram account lokokitchen. In this Tasty video, she talks about what inspired her to start baking, how she learns...
View ArticleThe Pits: An avocado searches for its other half
An avocado wanders New York City, feeling lonely and searching for its other half in this award-winning, puppet-filled story by The Bizzaro Company, directed by Mike Hayhurst. The Pits originally...
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