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Better Wine Through Chemistry - Opens in a new windowA team of geneticists and biotechnologists have discovered what triggers "stuck" fermentation, and are bringing winemakers one step closer to perfecting the winemaking process.
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Biotech : the world of Microorganisms - Opens in a new windowThe biotech industry can be divided into three main sections: medicine and pharmaceuticals, industry and agriculture, and plant biotechnology
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Edible Insects - Opens in a new windowFrom crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming planet.
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Essential Chemistry: Visual Clip Library - Opens in a new windowIdeal for launching lectures, illustrating concepts, and reinforcing understanding, this comprehensive video library of 46 three-to-six-minute segments sheds light on foundational aspects of chemistry that every science student needs to know.
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Food Groups and NutritionWe all know eating healthy is important—but why? What are these mysterious “nutrients” that are hiding in these healthy foods? This fun animated Miniclip delves into the world of nutrients and how they help keep us healthy and energized!
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Food Science - Opens in a new windowSteve Spangler shows you science you can eat!
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Food Science and Technology - Opens in a new windowThis video takes a step beyond An Introduction to Food Science. Topics include microorganisms, methods of food preservation including irradiation and freeze drying, functions of nutrients, emulsions, mixtures, additives, toxicology, and other chemical reactions.
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In Defense of Food : An Eater's Manifesto"Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants." With those seven words, journalist Michael Pollan distills a career's worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people's health by today's industrially-driven Western diet.
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The Littoral Zine, Food Chains and Food Webs - Opens in a new windowThis video explores the complex relationships between primary producers, lower level consumers and higher order consumers and how they can be modelled using food chains and food webs.
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New Technology for better-Tasting packaged food. - Opens in a new windowThe art of cooking meets food science.
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The Truth About Take Out - Opens in a new windowThis fascinating documentary uncovers the truth behind the tastes - how much do we know about our fast food, what is it really doing to our health, and can science help us make smarter takeaway choices?
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowVideo clips on a variety of subject areas including art and architecture, environmental science, health and social sciences, technology and trades. The videos are copyright cleared for classroom use at Algonquin College.
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Safari by O'Reilly This link opens in a new windowAn on-demand digital collection that delivers expert content in both book and video format with a focus on technology and business.
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LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowUp-to-date video tutorials on a wide range of skills such as software development, design, and business, and software such as Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), Microsoft Office, and WordPress. To create your account and learn about LinkedIn Learning, view the LinkedIn Learning Guide.
