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How Stuff Works is about the stuff that powers our modern world. Follow the incredible journey of common goods from the ground to your table, car, closet, medicine cabinet, and places you may have never imagined. Not for just nutrition, wheat is used in many things that you would never expect.

The program highlights wheat’s many uses, from fire-resistant doors to plastics. Wheat’s polyploidal structure gives the plant a genetic edge, and wheat breeders have worked for more than 8,000 years to develop the perfect variety of the grain.

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Rajya Sabha TV | RSTV

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Agriculture has been going through a period of technological advances and automation. It is quite probable that in a foreseeable future robot farmers will take over our fields.

Scientists and farmers in Australia’s state of Queensland have tested a new robot that sprays crops and clears weeds. The robot buggy is driverless and is considerably smaller than a tractor. It is equipped with a camera and a GPS system that enable it to avoid obstacles on the field. The machine relies solely on electronic power and features no remotely controlled device. Noxious weeds are invasive plants and pose a serious threat to production by degrading soil quality. While weeds are usually tackled with large-scale crop sprayers that increase farming costs, robotics can prove helpful through development of more affordable farming machinery.

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In southern Madagascar environmental change is pushing the poor even closer to the margins of survival. Two indigenous communities share the experience of this environment through their own films and life stories, providing an insight into the realities of rural poverty and the coping strategies they have developed. Sorghum is an ancestral crop for the Antandroy people and is now being revived following years of failing corn harvests in the regions annual drought.
An Antandroy elder passes on her knowledge of preparing sorghum.

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Life on Earth 009 – Plants

Paul surveys the Kingdom Plantae. He begins with a brief description of the phylogeny of land plants. He then describes the defining characteristics of plants, including cell walls, embryophytes, alternation of generation and photosynthesis. He briefly describes the sporophyte and the gametophyte. He finishes with brief discussion of plant evolution and includes major divisions, like bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms.

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Simon Orford talks through the key stages in the annual cycle of our autumn sown wheat trials based on our farm in Norfolk in the South East of the UK.

From sowing in early through late autumn he describes in detail how to score key traits or characteristics linked to crop performance such as ear emergence, anthesis, crop height, lodging and tiller harvesting that underpin the genetic investigations aimed at understanding and improving the wheat crop.

The video was developed as part of the Wheat Improvement Strategic Programme (WISP), http://www.wheatisp.org/ funded through the BBSRC and presented as part of the annual WISP course on wheat Genetics which is a four day course aimed at anyone with an interest in cereals research and crop breeding. The course is an entry level introduction, giving a taste of wheat genetics, from field trials to QTL analysis (http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/training.htm).

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You can directly support Healthcare Triage on Patreon: http://vid.io/xqXr If you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
Master Question List: http://ow.ly/Vqmmp

4:17 – I’m going to Canada for 6 months for a working holiday from Australia. Is there anything i should be checking with my doctor before i leave? Thanks for the show, DFTBA! Male 19

5:52 – Any research done on the nosefrida? I’m worried that even though there’s a filter, I can still get sick!

8:05 – Is it safe to semi-regularly(1-2 times per week) train so hard can cause you to vomit?I ask because I am training for an IronMan next year and this does happen from time to time,.

11:40 – Do you think that the DSM-5 has done autists any favours? I’ve found that it only makes people think that autism isn’t real.

14:02 – A study is going around the breastfeeding community claiming it is better for the mother to take a massive dose of vit D rather than baby. I’m curious if you saw this study?

14:46 – What do you think of the recent study published in The International Journal of Epidemiology that found *no* relationship between sitting and mortality rate?

17:20 – I’ve recently become an adult- how should I find a primary care physician? (My parents see a guy I don’t connect with particularly well)

18:18 – What is love?

18:24 – Is chrons disease hereditary?

18:57 – Could you discuss the low FODMAP diet in relation to controling IBS symptoms?

19:33 – What shoud I think about if I want to go vegan?

19:53 – Has there been any research done on what kinds of foods or diet can help or hurt inflammatory issues like arthritis?

20:28 – How is ICD-10 going to affect health care decisions?

21:20 – My doctor did blood tests for food allergies and it said I’m mildly allergic to wheat and sesame seed. However, I read that a positive is only right 55% of the time. Are there better ways to test this

22:06 – Are there any reliable ways to treat migraines other than the medications that control your blood vessel dilation? I have horrible side effects but my doctor keeps saying that it’s my only option.

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Growing up in Towner Colorado you learn a lot about the Harvest Combine. Here is a story about the History of the Wheat Harvest and Combines. It has Old Combines, Vintage Combines, Funny Combines, Big Combines, Strange Combines, Weird Combines and about every other thing you wanted learn about The Combine Harvester.

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Connect with Rachel at www.gmo-news.com
Follow her Journey at www.facebook.com/KidsRightToKnow

Help Rachel and awesome Youth Leaders like her empower and equip their generation through CHANGE GENERATION RISING, a free, action-oriented support and training program for young activists and school students at www.YOUTH-LEADER.org

14 year old Rachel Parent is a passionate advocate of food transparency, the health and safety of our foods, environment and ecosystems for today and our future. As she learned about emerging evidence showing hazards of GMOs on health, the environment and economies around the globe, and that more than 60 countries around the globe require mandatory GMO food labelling – so consumers like you and me have the Right To Know and Choose what Foods we Eat, she started speaking out for KIDS RIGHT TO KNOW also in Canada.

On the Global March Against Monsanto, Rachel publicly challenged O’Leary for his remark on television: “Only stupid people protest against Monsanto.” Monsanto should be considered a hero for researching for feeding humanity in the future. “I have an answer to those people. Stop eating. Then we can get rid of them.”

Well. Shocking. Intolerable and incongruent with basic, agreed human behaviour in a good, peaceful, libertarian and democratic society. And a twist for diverting attention from the matter.

CBC accepted the challenge, but not without a month’s delay.

Takie little ride with us, exploring the realm of corporate myth, the media of an unsustainable society, and seeing the pure spirit of Youth Leadership at work.

As you watch the show, pay attention to
– how many questions are open (for Rachel to talk about the issue she stands for)
– how many address facts about GMO benefits (not MYTHS, that Rachel instantly deconstructs)
– how many go off-topic in addressing Rachel as a person (a teen), thus undermining the credibility of her as a person and everything she stands for and says
– how many assumptions are made about her position (that are off topic, and also shift away from the core (and only) cause she represents)

These 12 min and 14 seconds are a powerful lesson about many things.

And it shows a 14 year old, passionate about the good cause of transparency, health, a safe environment, clean and ethical science, independent testing fit of democratic societies …

As you will quickly notice, this is not an open dialogue (as any reasonable, civilized debate ought to be, especially when in public) respecting the top level expertise that Rachel represents, … everything she says is solid evidence, facts and truth presented by unquestionable, multi-award winning global experts, independent organizations, courts and even governments.

This is a boxing fight. A nonstop attack, a few open, the majority hidden and low, trying from every angle, supposed merits, egoist guilt trip, anti-science, immaturity, shill, …

… and she elegantly blocks and returns every punch thrown at her,
returning every Off-Topic attack to the clear stance: Study properly. Label it.

… to the point that O’Leary’s line of attack breaks down and HE says:
OK, I GIVE YOU THE LABELLING

and as Rachel in a whiffy deconstructs his allegation that the government was doing proper testing (- watch out for that part!! – ) even says out of the blue: “we are in a long-term study. We have been eating GMOs for years” and thereby commits multiple self-destruction of his position, since
(a) the secret feeding of hundreds of millionds of Canadians with supposedly, but not at all properly tested GMOs is not a study (where is his strond advocacy of science, now?)
(b) hwy did he say there had been reliable studies?
(c) a proper study is done under verifiable conditions in laboraties and clear test groups, not on an entire population in chaotic environments and without access to data and materials (since Monsanto and others have criminalized independent testing by saying it’s “their” seeds)
(d) and how can O’Leary support that, given that he is so concerned about the health of children in far away Asia?

There are many more points, especially that GMOs have nowhere delivered the promised higher yields, long term (as Rachel mentions) AND that his repeated attack that Rachel’s position meant a death sentence for hundreds of thousands of children each year is absolutely ridiculous, since … aren’t there other ways for

(1) delivering Vitamin A (and entire countries have solved it, including Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, by a simple campaign informing poor country people to tend their own little gardens with a hanfdul of veggies; since no more night blindness in Bangladesh.)

(2) other ways for raising yields in people-, nature-, consumer and economy friendly ways?
YES THERE ARE. Simple ways are already raising yields by 3-7 times in widespread regions of Asia and Africa. On large scale! Even promoted by governments.

Stay tuned for Youth-LeadeR.org’s special issue on SOIL, FOOD & FARMING.

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whirlwind full of tumbleweeds in outback queensland