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Why knights fought snails in medieval art
643 views / 0 likes - addedLook in the margins of medieval books and you'll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Vox's Phil Edwards investigated why in this episode of Vox Almanac... Lillian Randall's paper is here: https://www.scribd.com/document/263159779/The-Snail-in-Gothi
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Why Snails Kill 200 000 People Every Year
211 views / 0 likes - addedDid you know that snails are the second deadliest animal on the planet and responsible for around 200 000 deaths every year? Here’s why. Sources: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schistosomiasis https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-13
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Watch These Cunning Snails Stab and Swallow Fish Whole | Deep Look
548 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Cone Snails have an arsenal of tools and weapons under their pretty shells. These reef-dwelling hunters nab their prey in microseconds, then slowly eat them alive. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! htt
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How Do Snails Navigate Razor Blades Safely?
1,627 views / 1 likes - addedSnails and slugs can move over incredibly sharp objects thanks to their thin layer of mucus. How does it work? OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE Wednesdays 9/8c on Science http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/outrageous-acts-of-science/ Watch full episodes: ht
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Bugs, Weeds, Snails: Your Sushi Is Served
262 views / 0 likes - addedWeeds, European Snails, Asian Shore Crabs. Chef Bun Lai forages for invasive species to create some of the most deliciousand sustainablesushi around. You've never had a grasshopper roll like this.This Great Big Story was made possible by UBS: https://bit.
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Snails, Slugs, and Slime!
682 views / 0 likes - addedJessi and Squeaks look at some amazing creatures that they found in their garden: snails and slugs! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Looking for SciShow el
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SciCafe: Mollusks To Medicine
514 views / 0 likes - addedWhen you think of venomous animals, you imagine snakes, spiders, or scorpions - not snails. In this SciCafe, Mandë Holford, a research associate at the Museum and Associate Professor of chemical biology at Hunter College, discusses her research on predato
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Better Living Through Snail Slime (And How It’s Harvested)
536 views / 0 likes - addedFor centuries, humans have put snail slime on their faces. Why? They believed its nutrient-rich properties fought wrinkles, scars and redness. Modern research shows they were right to covet snail slime, and that’s where Simone Sampò comes in. After realiz
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Breakthrough: The Killer Snail Chemist
468 views / 1 likes - addedThese aren't your ordinary garden snails. Tiny cone snails may boast delicate and gorgeous shells, but they pack a powerful—and lethal—punch. The snails' venom can be fatal to various fish and even humans. But it could also offer a potential cure. Mandë H
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Martha Stewarts 4 Danish Pastry Recipes (1 with Zero Waste!) | Martha Stewart Classic Episodes
247 views / 0 likes - addedMartha Stewart presents four delicious Danish pastry recipes, filled with apricot or cheese, or sprinkled with brown sugar and cinnamon. She even makes individual danishes from danish pastry scraps instead of freezing them or throwing them away. Waste not
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This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime | Deep Look
89 views / 0 likes - addedMost of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of: mucus!SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! https://www.youtube.com/us
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These Feisty Hermit Crabs Brawl Over Snail Shells | Deep Look
233 views / 2 likes - addedHermit crabs are *obsessed* with snail shells. These crafty little crabs, found in California's rocky intertidal zone, are more than happy to let the snails build them a perfect home. When the crabs find a snail shell they like, they hop right into their
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Got A Pest Problem? Call The Quack Squad
688 views / 0 likes - addedThey’re short, they waddle, and they’re coming to eat the snails. Meet the quack squad, nature’s very own pest control. Every morning, duck farmer Denzel Metthys releases over 1,000 Indian Runner ducks on the Vergenoegd Winery in South Africa. Trained to
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Q&A - Under The Sea - With Helen Scales
735 views / 0 likes - addedWhy haven't octopuses evolved shells? Helen Scales answers questions from the audience following her talk. Watch the main event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n796FoQjOHI Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe From shell-st
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Primitive Technology: Lime
1,235 views / 1 likes - addedAt the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty. Limestone is basically calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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This Snail Has a Jump on Climate Change | ScienceTake
418 views / 0 likes - addedThe humpback conch, known as a jumping snail, is great at sniffing out underwater predators and avoiding them. The creature’s sensitivity to danger led researchers to see how the snails might fare in warmer, more acidic seas that are predicted because of
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Soft autonomous earthworm robot at MIT
904 views / 0 likes - addedEarthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions. Snails and sea cucumbers also use this mechanism, called peristalsis, to get around, and ou
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5 Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The World | Big Business | Business Insider
306 views / 0 likes - addedAt the center of many billion-dollar industries are workers that risk their lives making, mining, and moving our products. From scaling palm trees for acai to mining sulfur in an active volcano, these workers make little profit for their risky work. We di
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The Hidden Significance of Shell Chirality - Christmas Lectures with Charles Stirling
489 views / 0 likes - addedSnails with right-handed shells cannot mate with those with left-handed ones. But you can predict the presence of oil in a location by looking at their ratios. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeWatch the full second lecture of
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Under The Sea - With Helen Scales
598 views / 0 likes - addedA dive into the spiralling world of seashells and the bizarre animals that make them. Helen Scales explains how hermit crabs like to party and butterflies learnt to swim. Watch the Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBHjBDgLfY Subscribe for regular sci
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The MAGNETO SNAIL! (and Other Marine Gastropods)
579 views / 0 likes - addedIn 2015, a deep-sea discovery was described to be unlike anything else in the animal kingdom. It was a snail with a shell made out of iron sulphide, with some populations also having magnetic properties in their unique exoskeletons. It made me wonder - wh
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How to Draw a Snail
61 views / 0 likes - addedLearn How to Draw a cute funny cartoon Snail. Easy step by step simple drawing tutorial. #drawsocutespring. #snails Please SUBSCRIBE at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3dEvA1is6-0_yuei9iCdEw Hi Cuties and Welcome to my cute drawing channel. I hope to i
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This Adorable Sea Slug is a Sneaky Little Thief | Deep Look
619 views / 1 likes - addedTake the PBSDS survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey Explore our VR slug and support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Nudibranchs may look cute, squishy and defenseless ... but watch out. These brightly-colored sea slugs aren't above stea
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Tiny Character Size Ranking! | SpongeBob
205 views / 0 likes - addedBikini Bottom has so many characters big and small but the real question is... who is the tiniest? Bikini Bottom decided to rank our favorite tiny characters, from Baby Chip to the realistic squirrel in Sandy Cheeks' helmet! Check out some of the best siz
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How do oysters make pearls? - Rob Ulrich
562 views / 0 likes - addedExplore how oysters use calcium carbonate to create pearls, and how this chemical compound creates a vast array of other materials.--Despite their iridescent colors and smooth shapes, pearls are actually made of the exact same material as the craggy shell
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THE BIGGEST FUNNY COMPANY KID'S CARTOON COMPILATION (1963) (HD 1080p)
711 views / 0 likes - addedThe Funny Company was an American animated cartoon produced in 1963 and seen in syndication. Ken Snyder and Charles Koren produced 260 six-minute-long episodes (they later would create the cult favorite Roger Ramjet). The Mattel Corporation provided finan
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Attack Of The Zombie Parasites!
826 views / 3 likes - addedDid someone say BRAAAAAINS…? Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Shows like The Walking Dead are full of hungry, mindless, surprisingly fleet-footed armies of brain-eating zombies. Could they actually
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The Fascinating Life of Deep Sea Cold Seeps
254 views / 1 likes - addedCold Seeps in the Deep Sea Explained. The deep sea floor is a barren realm. Life on the abyssal plain exists in a constant struggle to survive against the extreme pressure, darkness, and the scraps of food that drift down from shallower waters. But in som
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What Do Earwigs Do With Those Pincers Anyway? | Deep Look
579 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Deep Look on Patreon NOW! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Earwigs are equipped with some pretty imposing pincers on their rear, and they're not afraid to use them. But when it comes to these appendages, size isn't everything. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look!
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The Snail-Smashing, Fish-Spearing, Eye-Popping Mantis Shrimp
787 views / 1 likes - addedThe killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized light, which could lead to a breakthrough in dete
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Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
248 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Terra Maters new video about the Skywalker Gibbon - and subscribe - at https://youtube.com/terramaterofficial.Most new species are discovered by amateurs because nowadays non-professionals are actually better suited to the requirements of new sp
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3 Brand New Colors That Scientists Discovered
647 views / 1 likes - addedFor millennia, we mostly had to make do with natural pigments and dyes, but in the last 300 years or so, chemical synthesis has revolutionized the colors of our world. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: ht
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California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride | Deep Look
299 views / 0 likes - addedThe California floater mussel does a surprising amount of travel - for a bivalve. First it gets ejected from its parent's shell into the wide watery wilderness. Then it leads a nomad's life clamped on the fins or gills of a fish. Once it's all grown up, t
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What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck's Back? | Deep Look
301 views / 0 likes - addedDucks and geese spend *a lot* of time preening their all-weather feathers. This obsessive grooming and a little styling wax from a hidden spot on their back side maintains the microscopic feather structure that keeps them warm and dry in frigid waters.Ple
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Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet | Deep Look
459 views / 1 likes - addedThey may look cute and colorful, but starfish are actually voracious predators. To sniff out and capture their prey, they rely on hundreds of water-propelled tube feet, each with a fiercely independent streak. Watch the new PBS Terra science show, OVERVIE
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