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Are There Dead Wasps In Figs? | Gross Science
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Are There Dead Wasps In Figs? | Gross Science

Figs aren't exactly fruits...but that's not the only bizarre thing about them. Discover the gross world of figs! Subscribe to Gross Science! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more gross info?↓ Great 1977 paper by J. Galil on Fig Biology: http://bit.ly/2bxzKwa More on the type of pollination that happens in common figs: http://bit.ly/2bxBaqc -- Host, Writer, Animator, Editor Anna Rothschild Camera, Production Help Julia Davis Illustration of Fig Cross-Section Eliza Lehner Chasing Tails Music Provided by APM Special thanks to Dr. Allen Herre GROSS FOOTAGE AND IMAGES Original Footage ©WGBH Educational Foundation 2016 Fig Wasps Gregory Dimijian/Science Photo Library Ceratosolen capensis op Ficus sur, Jan Celliers Park, a Wikimedia Commons/JMK 2004-03-27-Chimpanzee-eatin Wikimedia Commons/Drrobert Great hornbill eating fig Wikimedia Commons/Lip kee Lineated Barbet- Eating Goolar fig (Ficus racemosa)-Kolkata IMG 5810 Wikimedia Commons/J.M.Garg Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) eaeting figs (17277655481) Wikimedia Commons/Bernard DUPONT LA FRUTERA (SNYDERS) Wikimedia Commons/Frans Snyders Common fig - Ficus carica - Incir 2 Wikimedia Commons/Zeynel Cebeci Mercury fig leaf Wikimedia Commons/Sputnikcccp Jerusalem Machne Yehuda Market (8118463247) Wikimedia Commons/StateofIsrael Ficus carica 1.1R Wikimedia Commons/Rob Hille GROSS SFX Cockroaches Freesound/StateAardvark­ (used with permission from author) Squeak Pack/squeak_10 Freesound/Corsica_S Flying Mosquito Freesound/zywx Bubbles Popping Freesound/ch0cchi Squeak_10 Freesound/Corsica_S Jelly Mangling On Plate Freesound/lolamadeus Gross Science is produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
Sea Cucumber Evisceration
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Sea Cucumber Evisceration

Sea cucumbers can eviscerate themselves, shooting their internal organs through either their head or their butt. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Echinoblog posts on evisceration, regeneration, and Cuvierian tubules-a must read: http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/sea-cucumber-evisceration-defense.html http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/sea-cucumber-defense-pt2-evisceration.html Evisceration and Regeneration: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jemt.1189/abstract Cuvierian Tubules: http://www.biolbull.org/content/198/1/34.short Credits: Host, Writer, Animator, Editor Anna Rothschild DP, Sound, Intern Extraordinaire Elizabeth Gillis Videos of Sea Cucumber Evisceration Courtesy Jose Garcia-Arraras Special Thanks to Jose Garcia-Arraras http://devneuro.hpcf.upr.edu/DevNeuro/Welcome.html Music Provided by APM Images Euapta godeffroyi1 Wikimedia Commons/François Michonneau Soldier with Prosthetic Limb at the Personnel Recovery Centre in Edinburgh MOD 45152288 Wikimedia Commons/Sgt Ian Forsyth RLC Thelenota ananas Wikimedia Common/Leonard Low from Australia Treasure chest candycane sea cucumber 2 Wikimedia Commons/q phia Tubes de Cuvier émis par Holothuria pervicax Wikimedia Commons/Philippe Bourjon Vert7 (10818457336) Wikimedia Commons/University of Liverpool Faculty of Health from Liverpool, United Kingdom SFX Cockroaches Freesound/StateAardvark (used with permission from author) Squeak Pack/squeak_10 Freesound/Corsica_S Bubbles Popping Freesound/Ch0cchi Swish_unwrap_fast Freesound/goldendiaphragm Wink Freesound/bennychico11 Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder made me feel like a monster | Throwback Thursday
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder made me feel like a monster | Throwback Thursday

On her fourteenth birthday, Lindsey watched a Lifetime movie about a woman who murders her husband. While watching, she felt something inside her shift. Her mind was in overdrive: What if I could kill somebody? What if I lose control? For months, these thoughts circled in her head. Was she really a monster or was it something else? Lindsey is a hair stylist, model and OCD advocate. She lives in Houston, TX. “Throwback Thursday” is a series from the Washington Post that explores the truth that lives beneath our childhood memories. In this docuseries, adults take a look back at their younger years. What begins as a trip down memory lane, ends in a heart-opening examination of what was really going on behind the trapper keepers and the bubble yum. New episodes launch every Thursday in April 2020. To watch more episodes of "Throwback Thursday" on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8QBkS_wk32UWzJbshDhIYkX-cmwNigor Follow "Throwback Thursday" on instagram for exclusive behind the scenes content: https://www.instagram.com/throwbackthursdaytheseries/ SPECIAL OFFER: To thank you for your support, here’s a deal on a Washington Post digital subscription: $29 for one year http://washingtonpost.com/youtubeoffer. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK Follow us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
What Really Causes Cavities?
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What Really Causes Cavities?

Hate going to the dentist? Keep the millions of microbes in your mouth happy. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ More Microbe Week videos! (Click "show more" for links) BrainCraft: Good Sleep = Good Gut? https://youtu.be/jkjqQXX47KE Gross Science: What Really Causes Cavities? https://youtu.be/WU05zZJKSdE AMNH: Microbes of New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTdeZU_8cLI Science Friday: Your Very Special Bacterial Cloud https://youtu.be/2_ib7Z4bmrg Inspired by the Secret World Inside You exhibition http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/the-secret-world-inside-you ↓Want more info?↓ Welcome to the Microbiome, by Susan Perkins and Rob DeSalle : http://amzn.to/1PtAi3u Kissing and the microbiome: http://bit.ly/1PNCkFH More on thrush from the CDC: http://1.usa.gov/1KyxNp2 PDF: Role of the Oral Microflora in Health: http://bit.ly/1nueqsB The Role of Bacteria in the Caries Process: http://bit.ly/1PNDPDQ -- Host, Writer, Animator, Editor Anna Rothschild Camera, Sound Katherine Hashimoto Many thanks to Drs. Susan Perkins, Rob DeSalle, and Anne Tanner Toy Box Music Provided by APM Original Footage ©WGBH Educational Foundation Footage and Images Dental Plaque, SEM Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Dental Plaque Bacteria in Phase Microscope 600X Blue Filter Pond5/jamesbenet Lovers Kissing Romantic Romantic Beautiful Kissing Teens Couple in Hd Pond5/TH_Producties Elderly Couple Pond5/Fotoluminate Dental Plaque From Human Sample 800Z Microscope Pond5/jamesbenet Devan Flickr/Seth Lemmons Candida albicans 2 Wikimedia Commons/GrahamColm Decayed wisdom tooth Wikimedia Commons/ProjectManhattan Dental cavity1 Wikimedia Commons/Digantatalukdar Digital cavity2 Wikimedia Commons/Digantatalukdar Double big gulp Wikimedia Commons/Russell Bernice from New York City, USA Plaque Disclosing Tablets Wikimedia Commons/Themolarbear File: Sugar Cubes (7164573186) Wikimedia Commons/david pacey from LEEDS, West yorkshire File: The Dental cosmos (1912) (14769050452) Wikimedia Commons/White, J.D. McQuillen, J.H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879. Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895. White, James William, 1826-1891. Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933. Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877. File: Phagocytose Entamoeba gingivalis-PMN Wikimedia Commons/Mark Bonner dmd, Institut International de Parodontie, www. parodontite.com Oral thrush. Aphthae. Candida albicans. CDC SFX Dun dun dun Freesound/Simon_Lacelle Squeak Pack/squeak_10 Freesound/Corsica_S Jelly/Jelly Mangling on Plate Freesound/lolamadeus Bubbles Popping Freesound/ch0cchi Produced by WGBH for PBS Digital Studios
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