Presentations. We encourage you to support the author. And very importantly, an extremely big thank you to sponsors, to david and Michelle Blair Family Foundation and montgomery college. Okay, lets get started. Tonight we have with us george zeidan, author of ingredients the strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us. George, an mittrained chemist, reveals what will kill you, what wont and why, explained with high octane hilarity, hisser the yall hijinks and other things that dont begin with the letter h. George created the web series ingredients and cowrote and directed mits web series. His work has been featured in the new york times, forbes, the boston globe, National Geographic magazine,nprs the fault and many more. He is currently executive producer at the american chemical society. Interviewing george tonight is statistics professor and a awardwinning science communicator regina, her writings on probability, Statistics Data have appeared in the los angeles times, new york t
Theres a group of people called the aymara who have lived for time immemorial in what is now peru in theandes. And they are, its a tough life wherethey live and the part of the reason is that not a lot grows their. One of the things that does grow there is potatoes. But these are notyour Grocery Store potatoes. These are small, wild andtoxic potatoes. Toxic in the sense that not theyre going to kill you but they will make you vomit, give you diarrhea. Basically make you never want to eat another potato as long as you live. And you cant just boil them. That will destroy the toxins. And they are not environmental contaminants. The toxins are made by the potatoes themselves. Why would a potato or any other plant make a poison . Basically to protect itself. The potato is the plants Energy Storage thing. And it doesnt want humans or any other animals digging up its Energy Stores and eating them makes them toxic to protect itself they are the potato plants batteries. They are stealing the po
A comment to let us know we are watching from and hit the subscribe belt to get notifications about our latest and upcoming presentations also, we encourage you to support tonights offer by purchasing his book through independent booksellers partner politics and prose. And very importantly extremely big thank you to dbs sponsors downtown crown are pai and montgomery college. Lets get started. Tonight we have with us george zaidan, author of ingredients the strange chemistry of what we put in us and on us. George, an mit trained abcnbc hit show make me a millionaire inventor reveals what will kill you, what wont, and why, exploring high octane hilarity historical hijinks and other things that dont begin with the h. George created National Geographic web serious ingredients and cowrote and directed mit web serious for a ahis words have been featured in the New York Times for the boston globe National Geographic magazine and npr the salt and many more. Its currently executive producer of
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