Could we LOSE FOOD due to CLIMATE CHANGE?🍔😲

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly explores the impact of climate change on food, brilliant inventions like LEDs, and a look at a deadly creature.

Dan starts with the latest science news, discussing a gigantic ring-shaped structure in space, the discovery of an ancient city in the Amazon, and the world's oldest bit of skin from an amniote.

Then, food scientist Maryn McKenna discusses how climate change could alter our diets, with crops potentially moving to different growing areas. Techno Mom explains how LEDs work and why they're energy-efficient. In "Dangerous Dan" we find out about the rough-skinned newt, a creature with a toxin in its skin. Finally, Benny and Mal, two microbes, debate the ethical dilemmas of replacing body parts and the concept of living forever.

What do we learn about?

- A gigantic ring structure in space and an ancient city in the Amazon have been discovered, challenging previous scientific understanding.

- The rough-skinned newt's toxic skin makes it a dangerous creature.

- Maryn McKenna talks about the future of food in the face of climate change, suggesting that crops may need to be moved or changed to adapt.

- Techno Mom highlights the benefits of LEDs as an energy-saving lighting solution.

- Benny and Mal's discussion raises questions about the ethics of body enhancements and the potential inequalities it could create.

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Grab your BFFs and get stuck into Girl Talk magazine.
0:05.0	Full of your fave celebs and youtubers.
0:08.0	Each issue is packed with fun, including puzzles and cute pets, quizzes and
0:12.0	quizzes and amazing bakes.
0:14.1	All this plus awesome prizes, fab fashion and amazing gifts.
0:18.9	Girl Talk magazine, get it every month.
0:21.6	What are you waiting for?
0:25.0	All right explorers welcome along. It's time to get creative and to get curious.
0:31.0	We're searching out all the science secrets in the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:35.1	My name is Dan. Welcome along every week you and me we travel all over the place,
0:41.6	finding some of that science that no one's discovered before.
0:46.7	This week we'll chat to food scientist Marin McKenna, all about how climate change will affect what you eat for dinner.
0:54.0	People who work in crop science and farmers and so forth are terminal optimists.
0:59.8	They have to be, right?
1:01.0	And what they say at this point is that this is a big world and there's a lot of
1:06.4	growing areas in the world that we're not fully exploiting so it's not necessarily that we're all going to
1:12.4	starve but we might have to get used to food
1:15.6	crops coming from different places than they come from now.
1:27.8	And our gadget genius, Technom arm is back looking at how brilliant inventions are made and how they help you every day and today we're making things brighter.
1:34.0	LEDs are another type of lighting made from tiny bulbs that are lined up in
1:39.2	grids. You can see these on some torches, cycle lights and even on some street and traffic lights and in people's lights at home.
1:45.9	Each LED is made to produce one color of light when electricity passes through it.
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