GMO Food Science 101 and How to Hear Someone in a Noisy Room
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn about GMOs with help from Dr. Patrick Cournoyer of the FDA. Plus: a trick for hearing someone in a noisy room.
FDA's Feed Your Mind website: https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/agricultural-biotechnology
To hear someone in a noisy room, look at their face by Grant Currin
- To better understand speech, focus on who is talking. (2021, October 26). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932401
- Fleming, J. T., Maddox, R. K., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2021). Spatial alignment between faces and voices improves selective attention to audio-visual speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), 3085–3100. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006415
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about GMOs with help from a special guest from the Food and Drug Administration, |
| 0:13.2 | and a trick for hearing someone in a noisy room. |
| 0:16.4 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:19.9 | If you see anything about GMOs on your food packaging, chances are at some phrase like non-GMO or |
| 0:26.6 | GMO-Free. |
| 0:28.4 | And that might make you wonder, does that mean that GMOs are bad? |
| 0:32.5 | I mean, what even is a GMOs anyway? |
| 0:35.3 | Well, today we're laying out the basics of GMOs with an expert from the U.S. Food and Drug |
| 0:39.7 | Administration, also known as the FDA. Dr. Patrick Cornwier is a regulatory scientist at the FDA who works to ensure the safety of food from genetically modified plants. |
| 0:51.0 | Patrick explained the GMO stands for genetically modified organism. |
| 0:56.7 | It refers to plants or animals that have been modified through genetic engineering. |
| 1:01.7 | We asked him why GMOs exist in the first place. |
| 1:05.0 | Scientists have been developing GMOs for the same basic reasons that humans have been breeding and modifying crops for thousands of years, so for higher productivity, less |
| 1:16.0 | lost due to pests and diseases, longer shelf life, better appearance, better nutrition, or any combination of those traits. |
| 1:25.0 | Back in the 1980s, |
| 1:27.0 | scientists started coming up with new ways of making really specific modifications to crops |
| 1:32.0 | and doing it faster than they could have through really specific modifications to crops |
| 1:32.8 | and doing it faster than they could have |
| 1:34.7 | through regular plant breeding. |
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