Are green potato chips bad for you? Risk Bites takes a look at whether fears over green potato chips are just an urban myth, or whether there's more to them. RESOURCES Useful websites: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5415e/x5415e01.htm Interna
From the end of 1941, a new camp had been built in the so-called "Auschwitz area of interest" of the SS. It was located three kilometers away from the existing Auschwitz concentration camp. Starting in March 1942, people were murdered by poison gas in two former farmhouses in Birkenau. Author: ZDF/
A pathogen is a microorganism that can cause disease. Pathogens may be viruses, bacteria, protists or fungi. Examples of bacteria infections are cholera, typhoid, food poisoning and gonorrhoea. Examples of viral infections are the flu (influenza), measles, mumps, the common cold and AIDS. Some com
Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/FuseSchool CREDITS Animation & Design: Reshenda Wakefield Narration: Dale Bennett Script: Gemma Young Did you know that it wasn’t until around 200 years ago that people knew what caused infectious diseases? Before that, they believed that one caus
What is toxicology, and why might a toxicologist just turn out to be your best friend? Risk Bites takes a look in this brief introduction to the science of toxic chemicals that might harm you, and how it's relevant to risk assessment. Risk Bites was created by Andrew Maynard, and is supported by th
Glass lizards are named so because they can be quite fragile. A glass lizard will drop its tail in self defense and may do this without the tail even being touched! When they tail breaks, it may sometimes do so in pieces, which has led to the myth that these lizards can piece their tails back togeth
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW examines a developing theory that might explain a 250-million-year-old "murder mystery." While several possible causes have been considered for the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the Permian period, the scientists featured in the video thi
What are some of the toxic things that your parents have said to you? Are your parents perhaps narcissists? Have your parents been unsupportive, expect the worst from you, pressure or overburden you, made you the parent? There are some subtle toxic behaviours that parents do that could harm your men
Sometimes animals and plants cannot get enough oxygen to respire aerobically, such as during intense exercise, but they still need to respire to survive. After all, everything relies on respiration for energy. Luckily there is a back-up plan; anaerobic respiration. The generalised equation for a
