Waching daily Mar 18 2018

Hi everyone, it's Sandy and today I'm doing the NOPE Book tag. This tag was

created by A Booktube Book and I wasn't tagged by anyone but I saw my friend

Mel from BooksWithWings doing this tag video and I knew I wanted to do it. The

questions for this tag are pretty long so I'm just going to be reading the

questions off my phone. The first question is a nope ending: a book ending

that made you go nope - either in denial, rage, or simply because the ending was

crappy. For this question, I'm going to go with The Girl on the Train by Paula

Hawkins. This book is a psychological thriller and after all the build-up in

this book, when the whole mystery was revealed, I felt like it was just very

anticlimactic, and I was pretty disappointed by how things turned out, so

I felt like this ending was just a big nope. The second question is a nope

protagonist: a main character you dislike and drives you crazy. I'm going to go

with Shazi from The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh. I don't dislike Shazi

but she did drive me crazy. The main and probably only thing that annoyed me

about Shazi's character is how her relationship with Khalid was built. I am

all for the enemies to lover trope. That is one of my favorite tropes to

read about but I didn't like how it was executed in this book. I thought the

romance was very sudden. The way Shazi felt about everything was just kind of

all over the place and it drove me crazy, so that is why I didn't really like this

book that much but I know so many people loved this book, but unfortunately it

wasn't for me. The third question is a nope series: a series that turned out to

be one huge pile of nope after you've invested all that time and energy on it

or a series you gave up on because it wasn't worth it anymore. A series that

turned out to be a huge pile of nope is The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey. If you've

been watching my videos for a while now, then this answer isn't really a big

surprise. I did enjoy the first book but the series just went downhill as the

books went on. As the series went on I just didn't know what was happening

anymore, like what were their goals? Like what are they trying to do?

I just wasn't as engaged anymore. Don't even get me started on the last book. I

really did not like the last book. The fourth question is a nope popular

pairing: a ship you don't support. I don't ship Alina and the Darkling. There are

people out there that actually ship them together but nope, I personally don't

understand it. I would never in a million years ship Alina and the Darkling. I

know a lot of people who have read these books don't like who Alina ended up

with but personally, I really didn't mind. the end game wasn't my preferred ship

but I don't dislike it as much as I do with Alina and the Darkling and also,

there are a million other reasons why Alina and the Darkling shouldn't be

together but I'm not going to discuss that in this video. The fifth question is

a nope plot twist: a plot twist you didn't see coming or didn't like. A plot

twist that I didn't see coming but I actually liked is in Killer Instinct by

Jennifer Lynn Barnes. The plot twist at the end of the book just blew me away.

There are multiple plot twists in this book and each one just constantly blew

my mind. If you haven't read the series, please check it out. The first book in

the series is called The Naturals and it's like a YA Criminal Minds. It's a

really great mystery/thriller series and I highly recommend it. The sixth question

is a nope protagonist action or decision: a character decision that made you shake

your head nope. I want to mention two books for this question and the first

one is Little Monsters by Kara Thomas. This is another mystery/thriller book

and it follows our main character Casey, who moves to a new town to live with

her father. She becomes really close to two girls

and they pretty much do everything together but on the night of a huge

party, Casey is left out and the following day, one of her friends go

missing and people become pretty suspicious of Casey. And in this book,

Casey kept doing things that was pretty much asking for her to be suspected

because she kept putting herself into situations that made it seem like she

was the one responsible for one of her friends going missing, and it just

frustrated me so much. I did like this book overall but I had pretty mixed

feelings about Casey's character because of her decisions but it definitely was

interesting to read from her point of view. Another protagonist I wanted to

mention is Desi, from I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo and I

really love this book. I think it's wonderful

but Desi does make some pretty crazy decisions that I don't agree with. A lot

of the decisions that she makes are due to this guide that she creates in order to

get a boy to fall in love with her. She basically studied a bunch of K-dramas to

create this guide, so a lot of her decisions are pretty dramatic and kind

of extreme. I don't agree with them but based on the context of K-dramas, I didn't

really mind her decisions that much. The seventh question

is a nope genre: a genre you will never read. I feel like never is a pretty

strong word and I don't always like saying I will never do this. I will never

do that because I don't know, maybe one day I will. But definitely for now, a genre

that I probably won't read for a really long time is erotica because that's just

something I'm not into and I don't think that genre needs an explanation. But

another genre that I rarely ever pick up a book from is historical fiction. A lot

of the historical fiction books that I have read are books that I thought were

like okay or didn't really like. There are definitely a few historical fiction

books that I did like but most of them I just thought were okay, so that's just a

genre that I don't ever really gravitate towards. The eighth question is a

nope book format: book formatting you hate and avoid buying until it comes out in a

different edition. There really isn't a book format that I hate. I pretty much

read from all different types of book formats, whether it's eBook, audio book,

physical print. However, I don't like mass-market paperbacks and I don't ever

read from mass-market paperback, but that's something I don't really have to

worry about because a lot of the books that I read which are young adult, are

not printed in mass-market paperbacks. And even though I do listen to

audiobooks, I will never buy an audiobook because (a) they're really really

expensive and I don't think it's worth the money to buy an audio book. A lot of

the audiobooks that I do listen to are books that I checked out from Overdrive,

which is connected to my local library and that works really well for me and

I'm really happy with just using Overdrive and checking out audiobooks

from the library. The ninth question is a nope trope: a trope that makes you go nope.

I feel like this trope is pretty specific but I hate it when one

character pushes another character away and that character is typically the love

interest, and they push their love interests away in order to protect them

for one reason or another. This does kind of fall under the whole miscommunication

trope because one character isn't telling the other character the full

truth because they think that once the whole truth is out, the other character

will think of them differently, will hate them, or will be really hurt, or for

whatever reason. And I feel like this always happens when it's so obviously

clear that both of these characters have feelings for each other. This trope

happens way too often and it's pretty present in a lot of my favorite books

such as The Darkest Minds, the Lux series, and all of the Shadowhunter

books. The tenth question is a nope recommendation: a

book recommendation that is constantly hyped and pushed at you that you simply

refuse to read. So I'm going to go with One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus and

this isn't a book that was necessarily recommended to me but it is a book that

I do think has hype surrounding it. It's a book that I will probably never read

because I've heard things about it that makes me not want to pick it up. I'm not

going to go into any of the details but Trina from Between Chapters has a very

very great Goodreads review that explains basically all of the reasons why I don't

want to read this book, so I will link that down below if you are curious. The

eleventh question is nope cliche or pet peeve: a cliche or writing pet peeve that

always makes you roll your eyes. I'm going to go with insta-love. This is a

trope that I really hate reading about and the second that appears in a book, I

would just automatically dislike the romance.

The 12th question is nope love interest: the love interest that's not worthy of

being one, a character you don't think should have been a viable love interest.

I'm going to go with Will from The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli.

This book sort of has a love triangle but I don't really consider it a love

triangle. This book follows Molly, who has had 26 crushes but has never been in a

relationship and she has a twin sister named, Cassie, who's basically tried to

set her up with this other guy. Once Reed is introduced, who is Molly's co-worker

and the other love interest, how can you not ship him and Molly together? I mean,

they are so cute and adorable and I really love them. I didn't really mind

Will that much but I definitely didn't ship him and Molly. I still really love

this book and I definitely highly recommend it. The thirteenth question is

a nope book: a book that shouldn't have existed that made you say nope. I'm

choosing Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong and I really didn't like this

book. I think I still ended up giving it like a three out of five stars, which I

don't know why. Honestly this is more like a one-star book for me because I

really didn't like it. I didn't know what was going on. I thought it was confusing

this book was just a huge pile of nope, so I'm not going to talk about it

anymore. The 14th question is a nope villain: a scary villain or antagonist

you would hate to cross and would make you run in the opposite direction. I'm

choosing Adelina from The Young Elites by Marie Lu. And Adelina is an antihero.

Her powers are hella scary. She can create these vivid and powerful

illusions that can scare someone to death and I definitely

do not want to cross her path because she can basically make you imagine

something terrible happening to you and I don't want to experience that because

reading about all the things that she does do throughout the series just makes

me want to stay as far away from her as possible. The fifteenth question is a

nope death: a character death that still haunts you.

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare. Still not over it.

Still not okay. Moving on. And the very last question is a nope author: an

author you had a bad experience reading from and decided to quit. There really

isn't an author that I read a book from and decided that I will never read any

of their books ever again but an author that I probably won't read a book from

anytime soon is Pierce Brown, the author of Red Rising. I read Red Rising a couple

years ago and I really didn't like it. I didn't really understand the world in

this book, and I thought it was just really confusing that I couldn't find

any piece of enjoyment from this book. I don't think Pierce Brown has written

anything outside of the Red Rising series yet but whenever he does, I'm

definitely willing to give him a second chance, but I probably won't be doing

that for a while. Those are all the questions for this tag. I hope you

enjoyed it. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.

Bye!

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[ENG SUB] Vlog Made In Asia 2018 - Brussels (Belgium) - Duration: 7:33.

Hello everybody !

We are at Made In Asia

We're going for a walk ... With the "Free Hugs" ^^

So, the Made In Asia is already over

I hope you enjoyed the video

Although there were plenty of other things to see, I really did not show everything

Feel free to see the cover videos I made

See you later ;)

Nox

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The Saddest Celebrity Breakups Of 2018 So Far - Duration: 4:09.

Love often has an expiration date in Hollywood, and 2018 has already proven that even the

rich and famous aren't safe from heartbreak.

From stars who dated for just a few months to couples who'd been married for more than

a decade, here are some of the saddest celebrity pairings that called it quits in 2018.

Nicki Minaj and Nas

In early January, news broke that rap superstar Nicki Minaj and hip hop artist Nas were starting

off 2018 as newly single celebs.

According to TMZ, after seven months of dating, the distance between the pair contributed

to their split.

They'd reportedly been living in two different cities, and a source told Us Weekly,

"They were never in the same place at the same time, so it was hard to move their relationship

forward."

Fortunately, there's no bad blood between these two.

The source went on to reveal that Nas and Minaj remain friends.

Anne Heche and James Tupper

Despite being together for more than a decade, actress Anne Heche and her longtime partner,

Big Little Lies actor James Tupper, broke up in January.

According to Us Weekly, Heche filed paperwork to establish custody and child support for

their son.

The former couple had also been caring for Heche's son from a previous marriage.

In a joint statement obtained by People, Heche and Tupper said,

"Relationships change and grow; we're taking time for that.

We care very much for each other and plan to continue raising our two beautiful boys

in love and harmony."

Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff

No one saw this breakup coming: Girls creator and star Lena Dunham and Bleachers musician

Jack Antonoff ended their relationship after logging more than five years together as a

couple.

An E! News insider revealed the split was mutual, saying,

"Jack and Lena were growing apart and it just made sense for them to end their relationship

where it was.

They want the best for each other no matter what.

They are both moving on."

Fans can rest easy knowing that neither celeb harbors any ill will toward the other.

Opening up about why she'll continue wearing a ring Antonoff gave her, Dunham told her

Instagram followers in a live video,

"I'll always wear [it] because love is a really cool, powerful, eternal thing.

It doesn't have to be defined the way we, in Western culture, define it — as beginnings

and ends."

Brandi Glanville and DJ Friese

These two are over.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Brandi Glanville announced her breakup with her boyfriend

of one year, Donald "DJ" Friese — and, apparently, social media was to blame … Instagram in

particular.

Taking to Twitter to share the news, Glanville wrote, "Social media is ruining romance!

It ruined mine."

She later added, "Is official I'm SINGLE!

He is all urs IG hoes!

He is lovely so be nice."

Soon after, Glanville tweeted, "When IG is the real true love of your life I think you

really need to check yourself and change your focus."

Daniel Christopher Allison and Monica Potter

News that Parenthood star Monica Potter and her husband, orthopedic surgeon Daniel Christopher

Allison, ended their marriage circulated in early February.

According to E! News, Potter filed for divorce from Allison a month earlier, citing irreconcilable

differences as the cause of their breakup.

They had been married for more than ten years.

A source told People,

"[Potter is] very sad and heartbroken.

But they are focused on co-parenting their daughter."

Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston

Fans were crushed in February when Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston announced their

separation.

After tying the knot in 2015, the Leftovers actor and the Friends starlet seemed like

they'd be together forever.

Alas, after a little more than two years of marriage, the pair called it quits, as E!

News reported.

In a joint statement to The Associated Press, Aniston and Theroux said:

"This decision was mutual and lovingly made at the end of last year.

We are two best friends who have decided to part ways as a couple, but look forward to

continuing our cherished friendship."

Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane

After more than a decade of marriage, actress Rebecca Gayheart filed for divorce from Grey's

Anatomy's Eric Dane just two days after Valentine's Day, citing irreconcilable differences.

As reported by People, the couple announced the separation in a joint statement, saying:

"After 14 years together we have decided that ending our marriage is the best decision for

our family.

[...] We will continue our friendship and work as a team to co-parent our two beautiful

girls as they are the most important thing in the world to us."

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ART GOALS and ESCAPING THE COMFORT ZONE - Duration: 4:48.

[light upbeat music] Hello everyone and welcome back to my channel

today I'm going to be talking about getting out of your comfort zone

and setting some goals for yourself so that you can hopefully improve your artwork in the long run

As artists we all know of stickings to drawing the same thing over and over again

I know I do at least

And it can be very daunting at times to try and draw something new for once

Taking myself as an example I suffer from head and shoulder syndrome

which just means I draw almost nothing but people from the shoulders and up

or from the chest and up but that's about it.

And in the long run it's not gonna help me improve my art. I know that, you know that, we all do.

and let's not even get into the fact that I realized about a month or so ago that I developed

a tendency to draw the same smug looking smile expression with barely any variation at all.

but enough about that. What I'm trying to say is that I have

some tendencies in my art that I'm going to try and develop and push myself out of

so that I don't just rinse and repeat the same art over and over again

And you should be doing the same!

and yes it is daunting to sit yourself down and

practice drawing things you aren't good at, whether it be hands, bodies,

expressions, backgrounds and so on.

because you want it to look perfect from the start

you want to just draw a masterpiece and first try and be done with it.

But here's the thing...

it's just not how things work

so how do you breakout of your comfort zone you ask?

Good question! It feels like there's a million

things I should practice and know and be good at and it gets overwhelming pretty quickly.

So here are a few tips that I use to push myself into drawing new

things and getting better.

number one: remember that you'll never be "as good as"

those artists you look up to if you never actually practice

you might look at a lot of artwork and think: wow I want to make that too!

And you can.....

if you practice.

number two: you can try and focus on a small amount of things you

want to start out practicing more on.

Stuff like eyes, hands, legs and so on.

Because when you practice all these small things they will in the end

combine like some kind of Voltron and BAM you got yourself a new drawing

Or something...

Now where do I start you ask well let me tell you.

When you sit down to draw something and you reach a point in your

drawing where you start struggling and you think "I don't know how to draw this"

that's where you start.

Or you think "I'm average at drawing this but I absolutely suck at this thing"

then you practice that. And if you're not quite sure what

in your artwork needs more work then try and show it to some of your friends.

Show it to people that would actually critique your work and tell you what you

need to improve on and then practice that.

[music stops] do you see where this is going?

we're just going to be practicing forever until the day we die...

That's the artist's life... yep.... I love it

[music resumes] and just as a side note you should still practice the

things you're already good at, but maybe try to vary it up a bit like drawing

different head shapes different eye shapes and so on and so forth

find new ways to better yourself and your skills

so going off on that let me tell you about what I'm drawing today

since I rarely do full-body pieces I decided I

try and do one (for once in my goddamn life)

not only does this push me out of

my normal head and shoulder syndrome but it also forced me to practice on some

other things I struggle with like hands and feet.

The girl I'm drawing is the main character from a webcomic I'm going to be making at some point

But starting off I honestly wasn't really feeling this drawing.

I thought it looked bad, the anatomy was crooked

I couldn't get her arm or face right

but instead of keeping up out of frustration I took a small break from it

went to eat dinner and then came back to try and fix it.

And I honestly ended up liking it!

Sure there are still some mistakes here and there

but I finished it

now there are tons of places online where you can

find reference pictures for things you want to study, there's countless books

and even YouTube videos that teach you how to break down for example a hand and

how you can go about drawing them.

I'll leave some links for you guys down in

the description for videos and youtubers that I've personally watched and that I

feel has helped me out with my anatomy studies and other such things.

Just in case you're not sure where to start, you can do what I tried to practice on which

was hands feet and a full body pose.

if you're interested in finding reference poses

I'll leave a link for some websites for that down in the description too

But yeah that's pretty much it for today's video

if you have any things that you want to improve on or goals you want to set for yourself

tell me about it in the comments, also tell me about what things

you suck at drawing so we can cry together [laughs]

thank you guys so much for watching,

I hope you'll have a wonderful rest of your day and I'll see you in the next video

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Indicator Usage | Tersha Singh - Duration: 3:06.

Hi guys! So...

I told you we needed to make driving drama an entire series

Because there's just so much to say about people and their driving skills

Today... driving drama's title will be

Indicator Usage

Use the damn blinkers! You have it in your car for a reason

I don't know! Is it so hard to just click the sides of your hand while you're holding the steering wheel?

I don't know if you can't multitask And if you can't multitask you should not be driving

I'm driving behind you You could give me a little warning that you're going to veer either way

So that I could like ease up on some gas you know

So I wouldn't hit you

I don't know Help the person behind you know when to slow up

And then when you're switching lanes I don't know if you expect that we are psychic or something

We sit down with a magic ball while we're driving

To try and come up with what you plan to do next

No! If you put on your indicator I will know you're going to cut in front of me

And I will slow down a bit to give you some room

But no! You don't want to use your indicator

I don't if like It's taking away from the functionality of your car or something

You can't use it so you just cut in front of me and now I have to stand up on brakes

You know and you have to do the soccer mom move and hold back your child

Or whoever else is in the car

But why give me the silent, quiet little heart attacks

When it is you could just use your blinkers

You stress out people!

You know! If I was selling the car and I said

"The whole car is perfect! The only wrong with it is that it has no indicators"

You will say, "No ma'am! How could you sell the car without indicators?"

"That is a necessary part of the vehicle! You need the indicators"

And you wouldn't want to buy it you know

Well you bought a bloody car that have indicators

Use them!

When you use it It doesn't use up any gas

When you use it It doesn't run down your batteria

So just use the indicators And use it appropriately too

And not for every God damn thing

And don't leave it blinking because you decide to drive down the road hearing

*tick tick tick tick tick*

Unless you don't hear the noise in the car and we're just seeing the blinkers all road

It is! Is it the law?

If it's not the law it should be the law

When I just started to drive and you got accustomed using hand signals

Because that's how they teach you when you're learning to drive

Man... I had my AC on and I went to go BOOP

I was like "Urgh!" You hit your hand on the glass

Good times!

You take care now! Four things...

Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe

Remember to use your blinkers And...

I'll see you next week

Bye!

My God damn glasses!

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7 Organisms That Can Clean Toxic Waste - Duration: 11:51.

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Humans have done a lot to pollute the world we live in,

contaminating soils and water with everything from oil to radioactive waste.

Luckily, some parts of nature have evolved to survive this pollution,

and might even be able to help us clean up these contaminants.

Using living organisms to get rid of toxic waste is called bioremediation.

It's safe and cost-efficient, and we're discovering new ways to do it all the time.

Bacteria are often the go-to bioremediators, but certain plants and animals can pitch in too.

Here are 7 organisms with the potential to make our world a cleaner place.

Fungi are so useful for bioremediation that there's a special word just for them: mycoremediation.

Fungi grow quickly and are great decomposers, using networks of

threadlike structures called mycelia to burrow into organic material like

decomposing trees and inorganic material like rocks.

Mycelia are actually the main body of a fungus;

mushrooms are just a temporary reproductive structure.

As they dig through the soil, mycelia ooze a variety of chemicals

known as extracellular metabolites.

These are enzymes and other compounds that break down molecules, including potentially toxic ones,

into pieces that fungus can digest and absorb.

Researchers who study fungi have found over 120 different enzymes

being produced by different species.

And in the 1990s, a mycologist named Paul Stamets helped develop a strain of oyster mushroom

with enzymes called peroxidases, which can break down hydrocarbon molecules

in oil-contaminated soil.

This is a big deal because oil contaminants can take a really long time to decompose,

and have all sorts of toxic effects on the ecosystem in the meantime.

Oyster mushrooms and other fungi have been deployed as an experiment to

clean up the aftermath of oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest,

and in an oil-contaminated creek in New York City.

That's something to think about the next time you're picking mushrooms off your pizza!

It turns out that cheerful sunflower plants can be great at sucking up radioactive contaminants.

After a nuclear disaster, radioactive isotopes typically stick around in soil and water,

continuing to emit harmful ionizing radiation for decades.

But some of these radioactive molecules are physically and chemically similar

to some nutrients that plants need, like potassium and calcium.

So as some plants grow, their roots can absorb the radioactive isotopes

right alongside these nutrients.

Sunflowers work especially well for this, because they can grow pretty fast

and can thrive in a lot of different climates.

What's more, they accumulate these isotopes in their shoots and stems,

making it fairly easy to dispose of contaminated plant matter.

After the meltdown at Chernobyl in 1986, a company working on the cleanup

built rafts of sunflowers with roots dangling into contaminated ponds.

The sunflower plants sucked up cesium-137 and strontium-90.

And removing those contaminants with this method cost only two to six dollars

for every thousand gallons of water, which is pretty cheap!

The method was less effective for soil, because some radioactive isotopes

can nestle tightly into tiny cavities in clay, where they're harder to extract.

But sunflowers work well enough that they've also been used to try and clean up

groundwater at a uranium-processing plant in Ohio,

contaminated springs at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

in Tennessee, and even around Fukushima.

Bivalves are mollusks with two-piece hinged shells.

This is the group that includes clams, oysters, and mussels.

They're constantly filtering the water around them,

because they're after tiny, free-floating organisms like plankton.

But in the process, they also suck up chemicals like weed killers, pharmaceuticals, and flame retardants,

as well as removing gunky sediment and algae that can mess up ecosystems.

This can be rough on the bivalves' immune system, but in many cases they survive.

This has led to a lot of interest in restoring natural oyster

populations in places like Chesapeake Bay.

And some scientists are even experimenting with bivalves in other places in need of clean-up.

For a 2014 study, researchers looked at two bivalves:

a mussel species from California and an invasive variety of Asian clam.

They put these species into tanks and flowed wastewater

spiked with 7 chemical contaminants through them.

After 72 hours, the bivalves had sucked up and processed 80 percent of one contaminant,

triclocarban, and smaller amounts of the others.

Triclocarban is an antibacterial chemical that's often used in hand soaps.

If it's in the water supply, it'll kill some bacteria.

But any microbes in the water that happen to mutate and survive

will reproduce and be more resistant to triclocarban,

or possibly other antibacterial compounds they come across.

Which isn't good for us if they cause disease.

Plus, triclocarban can also have effects on hormones in living things.

The same group of scientists then tested their bivalves in a polluted lake in San Francisco

known to have high concentrations of E. coli bacteria.

And some strains of E. coli can make people sick.

They fed water from the lake through tanks of bivalves and took some samples of the

water going in and the water coming out.

And turns out the mussels efficiently filtered the bacteria out of the lakewater,

digesting it with no apparent bad effects.

Lead-contaminated water has been in the news a lot in recent years,

partially because of the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.

Lead builds up in our teeth and bones, spreading to other parts of our body from there

and interfering with the brain, liver, and kidneys.

Which… becomes a big problem.

We've been developing filtration devices that remove lead from water,

but a recent study shows that a species of moss may be able to help.

Japanese researchers found a possible lead decontamination option in bonfire moss,

known to grow well in sites contaminated with heavy metals,

which are just metallic elements that tend to be pretty dense and toxic.

The scientists exposed the moss to solutions with

varying concentrations of 15 different metals.

About a day later, analysis with a mass-spectrometer

showed that the cells of the moss samples that were exposed to lead

had absorbed enough to make it around 74% of their dry weight.

Most of that lead was in the cell walls of the moss,

and the scientists couldn't determine the exact mechanism.

But a different analysis showed that these cell walls contained an unusually large amount

of a compound called polygalacturonic acid.

So they think it might be involved in binding lead atoms somehow.

Applying this to real-world cleanup is still in the future,

but the researchers definitely think it has promise.

Especially because the lead uptake worked across different conditions.

Who knows, maybe someday lush carpets of moss will be a part of our water treatment systems.

There's a humble-looking plant species with white flowers called alpine pennycress.

It's a member of the cabbage family, and it has an unexpected superpower.

When it grows in soil contaminated with heavy metals,

it concentrates a bunch of them in its leaves.

Like, more than 100 times the heavy metal concentrations that a typical plant can handle.

That's why it's considered a hyperaccumulator.

There are actually hundreds of hyperaccumulator species in the world,

but alpine pennycress is pretty unique.

It's one of only three species known to take in cadmium,

and the only one that can do both cadmium and zinc.

Like with lead, chronic exposure to these heavy metals

can have a variety of health impacts on humans.

Cadmium can cause severe liver and kidney problems, and too much zinc can cause vomiting,

fatigue, or mess with your immune system.

Part of the secret behind this plant's ability lies in specialized transport proteins,

although other molecular pieces are probably involved.

In most plants, transport proteins regulate the accumulation of heavy metals in cells,

letting the plant take in low levels but

rejecting them once the concentration reaches a certain point.

But alpine pennycress seems to lack this kind of regulation;

it just keeps sucking up more heavy metals with seemingly no adverse effects.

Unfortunately, pennycress plants are too small to have a big remediation impact on their own,

but researchers have been looking into how to

harness the molecular mechanisms at work.

In 2011, for example, Chinese researchers managed to express the gene for a key alpine

pennycress enzyme in tobacco, which significantly increased its ability to accumulate cadmium.

Now, that tobacco plant with an alpine pennycress gene wasn't the

first tobacco plant engineered for bioremediation.

In 1999, researchers in the UK inserted a gene from a bacteria species into tobacco.

The gene coded for a protein called PETN reductase,

which is capable of digesting two nitrogen-based compounds.

One's called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN,

and the other is glycerol trinitrate, or GTN.

Both of these chemicals are powerful explosives, and sometimes military and industrial activity

leaves trace amounts of them behind in soil.

Which is not good.

When the scientists tested out their creation,

they found that the plain tobacco plants they used as controls

could barely grow at all in soils containing even just a little bit of GTN.

The engineered plants, on the other hand, not only sprouted and grew at a normal rate,

they also absorbed and broke down the explosive compounds.

Since then, scientists have turned their attention to another nitrogen-based explosive that you've

probably heard of: 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, or TNT.

For a 2007 study, tobacco plants engineered with both the PETN reductase gene and a second

bacterial gene for breaking down nitrogen compounds were grown in soil spiked with TNT.

Not only did the plants lower the concentration of TNT in the polluted soil, but in doing

so, they also seemed to help out nearby microbes.

Both the biomass and metabolic activity of bacteria

growing around the roots of tobacco plants increased.

And since microbes are essential for soil health, that's good news too.

Wax moth caterpillars are probably most familiar to two kinds of people: anglers and beekeepers.

They're bred and sold as premium fishing bait.

And in the wild, they eat beeswax and are a major beekeeping pest.

But a scientist and amateur beekeeper discovered by accident

that they'll also chow down on something else: plastic.

She removed some wax moth caterpillars from one of her hives and put them into a plastic bag.

And later, she was surprised to find that they'd eaten their way out.

Then she did a follow-up study in a lab, which was published in 2017.

And experiments showed that in just half a day, a hundred worms could eat

almost a tenth of a gram of polyethylene.

Scientists also smashed up caterpillars and spread the goo on plastic surfaces.

And that goo ate holes in polyethylene, too.

This test confirmed that an enzyme in the caterpillar was truly breaking down the plastic,

they weren't just chewing it up into smaller bits.

This is a big deal because polyethylene is used in a lot of packaging.

Some estimates say about 40% of the plastic products today are made of this stuff,

and it doesn't easily break down on its own.

We don't know yet exactly what enzymes are involved in the caterpillars' plastic-eating prowess,

but presumably it's the same ones they use for digesting wax.

So, the next step will be identifying those enzymes and figuring out how to

put them to work breaking down plastic waste.

Some have raised concerns that breeding lots of these

wax-eating caterpillars could put bees at further risk, but maybe their

plastic-destroying genes could be stuck into bacteria or something else.

So if science looks hard enough, there's probably a plant, animal, mushroom,

or microbe out there that can help us deal with pretty much any kind of toxic waste.

Adaptations can be pretty incredible.

Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow!

If you want to learn more about pollution and how it's being cleaned up,

check out our video about some of the most toxic areas in the United States, called superfund sites.

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Motor Club of America|MCA Associate Shares Why MCA Pays So Well - Duration: 3:54.

hi guys it's Candice with Kings Prosper network in Motor Club of America thanks

so much for joining me today alright guys I'm going to talk to you

about why Motor Club of America pays its associates 200 percent commissions so

give me just a second and I'll be right back and we will talk about why they MCA do

this

welcome back so why does Motor Club of America pay its associates 200 percent

commission and that's one of the things that I wanted to talk about on today's

video you guys because that's a question that I'm asked sometimes and the reason

being is one of the most expensive things for any business out there is

paying for advertising advertising can cost millions of dollars per year

for a big business like Motor Club of America and so for that reason MCA has

taken a very different approach to get its brand out there to solidify its

brand and they have taken a much different approach than its competitors

okay so instead of spending millions of dollars on MCAcommercials on television

radio magazines

things of that nature and even in even those mass-market mailings that you

would get in your your mailbox outside rather than do that they have decided

that they would pay its motor club of america members its associates for referring others to their

services it's as simple as that and when we earn the 200 percent commission what

that means is we earn double of what the sale was so if you sell the total

security package at descents Motor Club of America is paying

you $80 for that sale and it's unlimited you can make 10 sales a week which would

be $800 or even more there are many on my team who are making

a significant income through Motor Club of America and it's 200 percent

Commission's so if you guys want more information you want to enroll with

Motor Club of America and start earning those unlimited Commission's yourself

check the information below you guys and that's really all I had for you today so

I hope that that has answered the question as to why does Motor Club of

America payout Commission's to its associates and I will be seeing you guys

soon on the next video please give me a like comment down there

share this video with someone who made me this information and if you haven't

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The Sims 4: Reality show "The Survivor" - Jungle Adventure - Part 2 [Machinima] - Duration: 10:45.

This is the temple, where the treasures of Omiscan are hidden.

When I get rich, I'll buy myself shoes made of natural materials that do not rub my feet...

Where? Where are the treasure chests?

Passage to the lower levels of the temple is closed by some strange force field.

Maybe I can go through it?

Surely there is some kind of puzzle here!

So, now we have:

4 bowls on the pedestals covered with glyphs,

An impressive statue of an animal.

Cat or mouse...

Eh... whatever.

A strange device with a lever,

Also, there is a swimming pool. Which is very handy!

A bar counter.

Wait. The bar counter. How?

And where does this come from?

Apparently the Omiscans were a very developed civilization...

So ... I'll try to pour sand into one of the bowls.

Damn, now I'm covered in ashes!

Maybe I should try another glyph? For example the sun.

"Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun! Mr. Golden Sun! Please shine down on me! "

W-what was that?

I almost pissed in my pants...

Oops... Not almost.

What a stink! I need to swim.

It's good that there is a swimming pool here. I don`t even know why I got scared.

I wonder if all this technique works? Wake up, Henry!

Wow! Latin music. Awesome!

DJ Greens rocks! Oh yeah!

But, the passage is still closed.

Heh. Almost like in the Vegas. I'm betting on the Tree.

I push the lever ... And ...

Ouch! What the hell is this?! It's not funny anymore!

I'm feeling weird.

Maybe I should try a leaf symbol.

Woohoo! I think I got it!

Passage is open!

This is the road to wealth.

I feel sick.

What? Are you kidding me?

I'm sick of all these Omiscan stuff.

But Henry does not give up so easily!

Wonderful. All the same set ...

So. The sun. The tree ... Hmm ... the leaves multiply by sun... minus the square root of the tree ...

That's bullshit! Maybe there are some hints here?

Ugh! I'm terribly stinking!

Why is this guy here? Smile!

Picture. What is it like? ... As for me, it looks like a two-color feces.

Although, in the background, it looks like the sun's rays.

I think I got it right.

Have patience, Henry. Soon you will find a treasure ...

Here! Here he is my little chest! Go to Daddy!

A wooden stand and some bone dust...

Oh my! Bottle of soda! Here is the real treasure!

And again the closed gates. I'm getting used to it.

These guys were serious about protecting their treasures ...

No. I won't touch the lever. I've had enough.

And who is this?

Let's see. African type of face. Full lips. Bulbous nose.

Um ... What can I say, buddy?

You have a nice carvings, man!

I hope this isn't another room with traps ...

This chest looks different! I hit the jackpot guys!

I found 2.8 thousand, a relic and a valuable artifact with precious stones!

But it's still early to leave. I am hopeful I can unearth some valuables here.

Wow. I think I'm hallucinating

The skeleton that dances salsa ...

So...the psychiatric hospital is not far away. I'm overtired.

I need to sleep.

Do you know what is the good news? Near the temple there are two bushes.

In the first you can relieve yourself, and in the second you can sleep.

It's almost five stars, guys!

After a couple of hours of sleep, I felt better.

The morning greeted me kindly.

Believe me, nothing will cheer you up like a few bee stings in the morning!

I washed off some dirt, swimming in the pool

and finished with the remaining excavations.

There's nothing more to do here!

It's time to return.

But I think I took a wrong turn.

I have to fight with vines again.

It's not a road to the town. But, the place is just magical!

I want to swim here naked!

Who can see me here anyway! It's the wild jungle!

It feels amazing!

As if there is some kind of magic in this ancient place.

Who is this?!

Judging by the slaps, she is local ...

I think I'd better put on my swimming trunks.

Look! Did she really jump into the pool in her shoes?

Weird granny. Better stay away from her.

Here is another pass.

I wonder what's there?

This filthy vines again... Then some attacks of wild bees and I got into an unusual location.

It seems to be ancient Omiscan gardens.

Many fruit-bearing plants are still growing here.

Black beans, avocados and plantain trees

as well as trees with Berries of Emotions. I'm sick of them.

Also the chest was a pleasant surprise

What if I try to assemble the base with the bird's head?

Wow! However, something is still missing.

I returned to the baths. The restless old woman was still here.

Why is she here? I'll go talk to her.

Hi! I'm Henry Greens. Explorer and adventurer.

- You are too young. You haven't saw anything yet.

Yeah, I have not yet seen the old ladies swimming in shoes at night.

It turns out that these pools were used by ancient queens for rejuvenation.

Soon, another fan of the night bathing in pink shoes came to swim in the moonlight.

Is it a wild jungle or a place for meeting crazy retirees?

The second young old woman was called Kiara.

She was a nice old lady and we talked all night long.

Kiara told me about local culture and legends.

She laughed when I boasted that I fully explored the Omisсan temple.

"It is impossible to fully explore this temple," she said.

In this temple there is still ancient magic and it is constantly changing.

And every time there will be new traps and a new treasures.

"Endless treasures?" "It sounds tempting, doesn't it?"

And even if someone says that it is foolish to believe the old lady who swims at night in the pink shoes,

Nevertheless, I decided to check this legend and again went on the road to the temple.

That's incredible. However, the temple has really changed inside!

Look at this tree! It was not here before.

English is not my native language so please forgive me for some mistakes!

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Interstellar Cinderella: Geek Books for Kids - Duration: 3:45.

Hey guys it's Carrie Anne and this week's book pick is the picture book,

Interstellar Cinderella. If you have kids, Cinderella isn't an unusual story. A

fairy tale, Interstellar Cinderella is a bit of a twist and actually a more of a

girl-power twist which I really like.

I am a big princess fan I like, like the

gowns and everything and just the stories. So that's the reason I read this.

This takes place in space and Cinderella still is a girl that lives

with two stepsisters and stepmother who don't really appreciate her. Cinderella

loves to tinker with machines. There's a big ball and with the help of her fairy

godrobot, Cinderella is given a fancy new space suit with gems and fixes up her

spaceship so that she can go to the ball too. And actually while she's going there

she encounters a ship in distress, lots of smoke, and it turns out it's the prince.

The prince's ship is in distress. So she offers to help gets a ship up and

running again and as a thank you he wants her to come with him to this big

ball. In her rush she ends up leaving her socket wrench behind ... forget fancy shoes.

Leaves our socket wrench behind and the prince is so smitten with her

because of her knowledge and what she can do with the ship. And so he's

determined to find her.

He gave all the girls that ask anyone around the galaxy

and he gave them all the wrench to see if they could fix the ship.

I kind of like this twist of Cinderella. It does follow, as you can tell, the whole stream

of that story. If they haven't heard it, this is kind of a fun twist on that.

I even love the end papers in the book, showing Cinderella's robot clamp,

antimatter hammer.

This book is different because this

Cinderella, instead of her dream to marry a prince and live in a castle and

do of that. Her dream is to be an engineer. Like she wants to help fix

rocket rocket ships and stuff like that.

I think is a great story for girls and

boys. Really it's a great story for kids. This still touches on, you know, relationship

and helping others but a little bit of a twist. That the girl in this role,

Cinderella in this role, is not somebody waiting to be rescued. She's determined

and self-reliant and has a lot of moxie and has no problem speaking her mind and

asking what she wants. And I think those are great traits to to raise our girls

with. So that's this week's book pick, Interstellar Cinderella. Fun more girl

powered twist to a classic fairy tale. On Wednesday's you'll find us here

sharing great book picks with a little bit of geekness in them for the kids but

we'll also be here kind of talking unique family travel with a little bit

of fun, toys, games and just other sort of geek stuff that families might be

interested in. Make sure to subscribe to catch more book reviews on Wednesdays

Make sure to subscribe to catch more book reviews on Wednesdays.

See ya. One to beam out. [zzzzzz]

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