How are tomatoes grown and harvested?
Plum-style tomatoes are grown and harvested in California, where 95% of America's processing tomatoes are grown. The process in the term 'processing' is a combination of tomato type—plum tomatoes are low on seeds and ...
Number Twelve Rocks, a classic Sesame Street animation
Number Twelve Rocks is an award-winning stop-motion animation created by filmmaker and Muppet pioneer Jim Henson in October 1970. In it, twelve rocks emerge one-by-one from a massive crowd of rocks, counting their pla...
Why can’t some birds fly?
Though the common ancestor of all modern birds could fly, many different bird species have independently lost their flight. Flight can have incredible benefits, especially for escaping predators, hunting and traveling...
Glaciers flow like rivers, a time lapse
Though they look solid and still, gigantic compressed masses of ice called glaciers flow, constantly moving like rivers. In this Secret Life of Ice clip, we see their awe-inspiring shifting with help from a time-lapse...
Melting a metal alloy spoon in some tea
Imagine stirring your tea and having your spoon disappear into your tea... melting quickly away. When one of Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff's Periodic Videos viewers sent a metal alloy, Field's Metal, to their office,...
The Pink Iguana of Galapagos
One of Galapagos’ most recently described species is also one of its genetically oldest. Pink iguanas are not just a different colour from other land iguanas; they are a completely separate species. There are only aro...
Crab Story
A crab happens upon a rather unusual sight on the beach: A strange pineapple. All the crabs gather to give it gifts of food to... honor it? To keep it happy? To keep it well fed so it doesn't eat them? But what is thi...
Abigail Mendoza, world renowned Zapotec chef
Mexico's Zapotecs are an indigenous community living in Oaxaca, Mexico. Before Spanish colonization, Zapotecan civilization was a thriving epicenter of food, culture and tradition. Today, chef Abigail Mendoza is on a ...
