A lemon-powered supercar and making the world’s largest lemon battery
Can you power an electric supercar with lemon-power? It depends on the lemon-power. In the video above, science YouTuber and former NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober attempts to fill a 48-kilowatt-hour...
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...
View ArticleCalifornia 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...
View ArticleDinara 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...
View ArticleA lemon-powered supercar and making the world’s largest lemon battery
Can you power an electric supercar with lemon-power? It depends on the lemon-power. In the video above, science YouTuber and former NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober attempts to fill a 48-kilowatt-hour...
View ArticleThe secrets of citrus micro-jets, captured in high speed
Peel an orange or a lime and then bend a section of fruit until the liquids squirt from the skin at 30 feet per second. At what point did the skin give way? Where did the micro-jets shoot? Why did the...
View ArticleThe communal support within Crested Black Macaque monkey troops
Crested Black Macaques endure torrential rains on the northern end of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It’s the only forest on Earth where they can be found. BBC Earth visits this Lands of the...
View ArticleThe secrets of citrus micro-jets, captured in high speed
Peel an orange or a lime and then bend a section of fruit until the liquids squirt from the skin at 30 feet per second. At what point did the skin give way? Where did the micro-jets shoot? Why did the...
View ArticleA female blue orchard bee builds her ‘bee-jeweled’ nest
A new type of bee is buzzing through California’s orchards. And researchers are hoping that the iridescent, greenish insect may help provide a more efficient way to pollinate nuts and fruits in an era...
View ArticleA female blue orchard bee builds her ‘bee-jeweled’ nest
A new type of bee is buzzing through California’s orchards. And researchers are hoping that the iridescent, greenish insect may help provide a more efficient way to pollinate nuts and fruits in an era...
View ArticleA Pumpkin’s Life
A Pumpkin’s Life is a Sesame Street-style pumpkin time-lapse filmed in 2011 by Jon Fletcher at Sykes-Cooper Farms in Elkton, Florida. To capture each stage, he built a solar-powered camera to capture...
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