Inside America's Strategic Nut Reserve
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- I explored the U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium to find out what it takes to protect America's food biosecurity and (maybe) find some new species.
Huge thanks to Harlan Scoboda and the team at the U.S. National Arboretum Herbarium.
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Hi, I'm James. I explore the world looking for interesting engineering stories which explore complex issues in interesting ways. I hold a First-Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia and am currently studying a Masters of Space Systems Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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You have no idea how much I wanted to end this with the warehouse scene from Raders of the Lost Ark
i can imagine lol
"Top...kek."
We have top men working on it right now.
They didn't allow drones in the archive, huh? What a bunch of buzzkills
How do you get all these US places, aren't you British?
Gotta love James just standing there talking holding the world's largest seed that looks like a butt. 😂
Had to pause and find this in the comments. Glad I'm not alone.
3:23 That plant looks really strong; the kinda plant that's never gonna give you up
Now I've been rickrolled by two of the best CZcamsrs around in a matter of minutes, as Tom Scott's upload from yesterday (also kind of about plants and flowers :D) has one in it as well!
Don't worry, we're never gonna let you down
It's at 3:23 for the others like me that were too sleepy to catch it. it's quite clever.
1:02 'Double coconut'? I've never heard that name before. We call them 'Coco De Mer'. I have family that lives in Seychelles (where they grow) so I have a couple at home. We bought them for cheap as chips back in 2007 when we visited Seychelles, and now they go for thousands of dollars a piece. Pretty crazy stuff.
I recognize that „identifier“ at 3:20
you wont rickroll me
lol yeah that code has been burned into my memories
Carl Linnaeus: Father of Taxonomy (and seven children)
Haha, I love details like these and other subtle pranks in your videos.
Novel knowledge, stemming from a sense of familiarity along with these Easter Eggs, are all that we could ask for.
Thank you.
(Carl Linnaeus- 6:03)
I study horticulture, and this year, the oral exam of the subject 100% revolved around collecting a 40 piece herbarium over the course of the semester. So after having done all that, seeing the sheer amount and meticulity of that collection gave me a profession boner.
i gotta say, of all the "touring cool places" content ive seen, the stuff you make is definitely the most informative. i'm always learning something super new and interesting from your videos.
5:57 I like how you didn't even know what Bulbasaur was called but that it's still the best Pokémon. That's how good it is.
The rest of the video was very good too.
for my money? I'd say chimchar
I really like the moving shelves that they have, it's simple way to save space and it looks really cool!
They also help protect from water and fire damage, and reduce airflow
Vertical Farms are also starting using them for grow-beds, so you only have to have space for 1 walkway + 10 grow-beds.
@@allocater2 That's really cool
I think I’d be scared of getting squished 😂
3:30 hey i recognize that code…
dQw is all I need to know
The whole description there is hilarious
Lovely vid. And love the Sea of Thieves imagery used
Sea of Thievs has lowkey overtaken my life...
@@AtomicFrontier I absolutely agree with that statement. It is very addictive!
You've been hitting these videos out of the park, fun to watch and just in general good content.
Amazing work :D
I do herbarium work and these collections are so important but so very unknown to the public, so thank you so much for making this video!
Atomic Frontier hitting us with a rickroll in written form. very well done.
Having seen and learned about what Kudzu can do when I was growing up in the south. The appropriate response to finding seeds on your ships is 110% to set that shit on fire
I saw that specimen ID number. The only youtube ID I've ever memorised
3:27 can't believe you just rickrolled me
LMAO at the god damn preview
As a botanist, who collects and preserves specimens in a herbarium, well done here. Super well explained and concise. Love this.
This channel is so criminally underrated
yes
What a thumbnail
this was part of my college entrance essay some years ago. Since then I wanted to make a video on it, but I never acquired the video/graphic design skills to do so.
"One evening I am sitting by a water fall in Iceland and a thought comes to my mind. It’s a huge waterfall with thousands of gallons of water with an enormous force crashing into the river below. But as I thought, it came to me; the waterfall is mostly composed of tiny water droplets, each falling, not dependent on the other. Three water droplets falling next to each other would have the same velocity as a million of them. And the same can be said about a rock, no matter how heavy it is, all particles individually will be pooled down with the same force causing it to fall with the same acceleration as anything else no matter it’s density or size."
I'm happy to have found this channel! Love it so much!a
3:30 Plant ID is the ID for rick roll on youtube. You can't fool me with XcQ.
Everyone in Alabama:
Oh no not a ship with the dreaded kudzu! Whatever shall we do? lol
Fascinating presentation (plus bonus points for more skillful roto-mask work once again) -- I can't imagine how extensively Ethnobotany has been used for drug discovery nowadays. I'd imagine the pharmaceutical companies have legions of researchers at this point.
Fantastic content, always a little different. I love it.
this is an excellent video!! Educational and fun!
Question: Was this the same process that (failed) to indentify the tumbleweed seeds that came with the crop seeds?
Legendary Thumbnail, great video too! Always quality content.
Not something I had considered asking about, but I'm glad I learned about it.
Really interesting video!
Great video as always. Also i really liked the outro tune. Oldschool.
Nice, a plant related topic once more!
This is nut what I was expecting
Interesting, thanks James.
Nice work here
i just love your videos
Came for the thumbnail, came again for the video.
I've memorised that link off by heart at 3:27 and there's no way searching it.
what a cool mechanized stacks! and the lights go on automatically! i've only ever seen the manual kind with the wheel
Same!
Good episode 😊😊
Me after nofap November
Tl;Dr: almost died from a wild berry plant, anyone wants to include the plant into the scientific literature?
There's a nameless plant in my backyard, 3 written papers on it, 1 about the fruit morphology, one basic chemical characterization which found like 3 substances only (undergrad research apparently) and the other one barely says the species name, probably misquoting it.
It's called _Psychotria Trichophora_ and most photos online are of P. Hoffmansseggiana instead
Tasty blue fruits, basically a wild blueberry, eating a couple seems to be safe.
But, the flowers and leaves "may" have sodium monofluoroacetate which kills cows and and kill humans too
A few months ago I was feeling daring and i decided to smoke its flowers (it's related to coffee and chakruna, the Ayahuasca leaves plant) well, about 20hrs later I got hit with an unbearable headache which caused me nausea, and i spent the next 6 hours constantly throwing up, nothing stayed down and there as blood in my vomit, I literally believed I was about to die and I wrote a basic will saying to archive my conversations and notebooks and give copies of my ideas to researches in their respective fields(there's a list of names of local professors somewhere in the middle of my stuff)
Well, I didnt die, but I'm sure it was a close call.
Also, my 30 tlc attempts only had noise, I couldn't even see the MAOIs from Ayahuasca glowing in a black light, which I used as a comparison with coffee as a control.
I had blood drawn 36hrs after the symptoms started, didn't even look at them yet
But yeah, don't smoke weird plants that aren't properly described in the literature
The berries are delicious and only gave me a diuretic effect, no other liver or kidney effect afaik. And apparently sodium monofluoroacetate is more concentrated in the leaves and flowers(maybe in the trichomes tho it's anyone's guess at this point) and it's water soluble, so maybe by washing it a couple times then boiling it might be safe to eat larger quantities in a jam, but i ain't trying that without figuring out how to do proper TLC's first
Great research project to anyone looking for an easy paper, so if anyone wants a specimen I can collect it fresh and conserve it however you need, basically everything there is to do with an unknown species can still be done with this plant, since it has no name yet and barely a couple papers written on it by undergrads, so anything you can think of doing with the plant you'll be able to publish simply because no one did it yet
You get into the most interesting places i swear.
3:25 that code... xcq at the end... that's the Rick Roll CZcams ID. Nice little detail :)
1:00 everything reminds me of her..
My mum got her wedding flowers preserved the same way and I never knew how it was done, just never thought about the piece on our living room wall until now. Cool video! Although you did not just describe Oddish as just a cute mandrake >:(
I absolutely love the hidden Rick roll! LOL!
3:29 cannot believe I just got rickrolled by a plant
clever rickroll at 3:30 XD
they use glue to attach? In uni we used a special tape that would stick to the paper but not the plant.
The moss specimens were funny because all desiccated and in plastic bags they all just looked the same. I guess with original description plus DNA that is still useful though.
3:23, crazy how I can recognise a CZcams URL just because I’ve seen it so many times
Although I agree that actual samples have their uses, you were a bit to dismissive of photography. High quality photos of plants in situ, and in various stages of development etc are probably much more valuable than the specimens for the vast majority of needs. Ideally though you need a lot of photographs at various resolutions (including through a microscope and with various cross sections).
As usual, a great video with production quality that could rival the BBC
Hey, I recognize that youtube video id!
6:04 Liked what u did there....
3:25 ive been online for too long not to recognise what this code means you jokester
wait literally the next second more astley references pop up i feel dumb now
Seeds will never give you up
This is great and all, but what did it smell like in there.
0:53 Ooooooh my effin' camel toe! 😳hahaha
Ceylon? That's interesting. Do they still use the old colonial name in some places? That name hasn't been in use since the early 1970s.
u and tom scot should make a discovory channel series orsomething
I'd be so down for that
Not sure if its just my device but some of the colour is off on one of the cameras, seems like when you have HDR enabled but not actually set up correctly.
Yup, that sounds about right. Been trying to get colour working properly for a bout a year now...
i was about to discover a new species but i drank tea so i have to start all over again :(
When he first said Beatle I thought he meant beetle lmao
0:53
2:02 they're just 2 varieties of passion flower seeds ffs.
I see that plant identification tag you prankster
U send it to Washington where they put it in a hot box and freeze it at -80 Centigrade, something is sus in here...
So it's essentially a giant Collectopedia. Sounds fun.
Now a billionaire philanthropist needs to fund gene sequencing of all those samples, along with the software to search and sort them.
Fungi are more closely related to the animal kingdom then they are to the plant kingdom.
How the fuck does this man get into the places he does and goes the places goes
thumbnail sus
You're not dQw4w9WgXcQing me today, Mr. science man
Nice Plants vs. Zombies reference.
watches video
... gets rick rolled. Damnit
AYO THAT'S THE RICK ROLL URL
I thought he was holding a fossilized Kardashian.
Nick Rick Roll!
I wondered if breath and talking might be harmful to the samples.
Why does Malaysia have it's very own category lol
3:25 Nice try.
So what I'm hearing is someone needs to write an ai to work with Google images to discover all the new plants.
Why u gotta eat every other syllable bro
What is this "news paper"? Doesn't really look new.
/s
Commenting 4 algorithm
Now now now... respect the work but being on your phone with your grandma sitting next to you and the title saying "worlds biggest nut" is a bit difficult to explain
7:27 Yellow for Asia? When was this system dreamed up? Did they select that color for racist reasons? Was it assigned randomly? Sus very sus.
I like your content but please work on your pronunciation. I am not native English speaker and I have problems understanding you. Talk slower maybe. You seem to rush some words.
he's going for a thing called "BBC English" which is an accent that television presenters and news reporters use, ironically it is intended to make it easier to understand what they are saying, i think he's just not got the knack for it yet.
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I can understand David Attenborough just fine. But David isn't so fast talking.
@@pacinpm2 yeah that's what i mean, i know exactly what you're saying about his pacing, i'm British myself and i find it odd.
@@pacinpm2 Use subtitles maybe?
@@insertchannelnamehere8685 good idea. I'll give it a shot.
Came for the content, got the rick rolling 😁