You can eat mussels. Mussels are jolly good-- mussels, clams, things like that, which are low in the food chain in shellfish terms. They're all good. But the third thing you can do as an individual is just-- well, you could do it by getting a copy of my book,
Ese día tuvimos que coger las pateras para cruzar el Mediterráneo. Mussa, mi mejor amigo hasta entonces, no tuvo tanta suerte como la mía. Yo subí a la patera A; Mussa, la patera B.
Which is why I think that one has to really think about how this happens. Mussolini had a great quote which I love to use, which is that "if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, people don't notice the squawks." And it's that kind of a thing that is a warning very deliberately.
These economies were conspicuous for their patronage and lobbying, not to mention cronyism and nepotism. Mussolini, a leading corporatist, promised higher productivity through innovation, but without arranging much for innovation. Corporatists and socialists have continued to claim, right up to the present day, that their systems boost economic performance
You think the fact that people don't like you means they won't buy your products, even if it's the best on the market for their application? No muss , no fuss.
And another marvel is one you can order in most coastal seafood restaurants. Blue mussels are the focus of chapter 6 in my book. And at first glance, they may seem kind of boring.
So let's zoom in closer to see how they do this. The mussel's foot is actually hollow. This hollow chamber is airtight and watertight and acts like a plunger to draw liquid proteins down the hollow tube in its foot.
This hollow chamber is airtight and watertight and acts like a plunger to draw liquid proteins down the hollow tube in its foot. The mussel's foot then pumps and massages those chemicals into a foam-like substance to create a thread. To then create that spot of glue, the most important ingredient is a chemical called L-dopa.
I personally find this fascinating in its own right, but Li's journey didn't end there. Harvesting mussel proteins just simply isn't feasible from a cost perspective. It would take 10,000 mussels to create a quarter of a teaspoon of glue proteins.
Hay guerras. La gente no hace más que-- hay que salir. Son Mussas, son Sapassinis, son Alanza Milos, son Mayid.
and joined the Italian army that was then fighting. Although Mussolini was originally on the other side, there was, in fact, a brigade that was fighting with the Allies. And ended up fighting the Germans in North Italy.
on his fastball. And I saw him use 92, 97. And Mussina, to me, was the most deserving of guys who are still on the ballot.
Like a good Oxford debater, you always have three arguments. So Mussolini says we want to go to war, and we'll go to war.
They didn't call it foraging. We pulled mussels out of the jetty. They didn't call it foraging.
And at first glance, they may seem kind of boring. But blue mussels are amazing in that their glue needs the fortitude to withstand the smashing of waves and baking hot dry spells, all in a day's time. They also need to resist hungry seagulls pecking at their shells and the effect of being sandblasted by debris.
Byssal threads can stretch to 160% of their original length and are five times stronger than our own Achilles tendon. If you spot a mussel making one of these threads, you'll see a brown foot slither out from its shell. I know it looks like some kind of weird tongue, but it's actually a long, skinny foot.
And as soon as I say that, you may think of its use in Parkinson's, but it's actually being used in a completely different fashion here. For the whole mussel, the process takes-- for the mussel to create this thread, the whole process takes only five minutes. I personally find this fascinating in its own right, but Li's journey didn't end there.
And since we can't extract glue from mussels like we can milk from cows, Professor Li needed to invent a synthetic version that mimics the mussel's grip. So he had one more step to complete.
So by mixing together the best of soy and the best of mussel proteins, Professor Li was able to create a soy glue imbued with a Frankenstein mix of mussel strength. A company called Purebond purchased his glue for their manufacturing and ended up replacing 47 pounds million of formaldehyde resins while reducing hazardous air
And they come from a local fishery who's got an interest in not overfishing it, lobster and crab. You can eat mussels. Mussels are jolly good-- mussels, clams, things like that, which are low in the food chain in shellfish terms.
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, When someone tells you mussels with rice, it doesn't-- Exactly.
Yo subí a la patera A; Mussa, la patera B. La patera que iba Mussa más 150, 200 personas no tuvieron suerte de pasar las primeras olas. La patera hundió. Mussa, más la cantidad de personas que iban en aquella patera, nadie sobrevivió.
on his fastball. And I saw him use 92, 97. And I thought Mike Mussina, who is, I think, of the non-PED-suspected pitchers--
on his fastball. And I saw him use 92, 97. And I Mussina is going to get in.
Travel, right-- you see what France is doing. You go see the mussels on the coast of Brittany and where Prince Edward Island actually discovered their similar climate for mussel harvesting. And all these things will start-- even today as I travel now, just constant-- it's like formulaic.
And there are people there who call themselves ostrovegans. So they only eat mussels and oysters, because they think that they don't feel pain, because they don't have the nerve endings for it. And by farming them, you're actually improving the environment.
I'm sure someone out there is going to point out the remarkable life story of the squid. and picking mussels. So that's one place that all you need is a recreational sport fishing license.
Thanks for coming out today to talk about some basic physics and some very interesting phenomena in that area. My name is George Musser. I'm a contributing editor at "Scientific American" magazine.
We added the mussels and the clams, covered them in white wine, covered the pot, and what happens is they'll steam opened letting out
So that was the mussels.
such as blue mussels.
These are zebra mussels.
could potentially fight zebra mussels.
I talked about farmed mussels, oysters, clams.
Harvesting mussel proteins just simply isn't feasible from a cost perspective. It would take 10,000 mussels to create a quarter of a teaspoon of glue proteins. And since we can't extract glue from mussels like we can milk from cows, Professor Li needed to invent a synthetic version that
So had met Hitler and Mussolini.
They're communicating with Hitler and with Mussolini and with all of the Axis leaders and they're reporting it all back to Tokyo in very, very detailed,
except for Russia-- have always been either elected or got their power constitutionally. King Emanuel of Italy gave it to Mussolini. And then also Von Henneberg had asked Hitler to take over.
on his fastball. And I saw him use 92, 97. And part of why I discussed Mike Mussina then in that same chapter too was, as I was finishing the book too,
It was bedside reading of Mussolini.
is we've cut off mussels and clams.
If anybody hasn't ever cooked mussels and clams, what we really did is we're using it for the juice.
When you're cooking your mussels and clams again, save the juice.
And next to the kelp they put mussels.
And so he grows blue mussels and then he collects a couple types of seaweed
I think this is the blue mussel producer that Gunnar works with.
While they were out there, collecting as many mussels as possible, Professor Li was nerding out and bagging some for future research. He was amazed by how hard it is to remove the mussels from the rock. He even needed a small crowbar to pry them away.
It would take 10,000 mussels to create a quarter of a teaspoon of glue proteins. And since we can't extract glue from mussels like we can milk from cows, Professor Li needed to invent a synthetic version that mimics the mussel's grip.
I'm from a family of fascists who are going to Mussolini him out of my life.
They were-- a lot of Jewish intellectuals opposed to Mussolini had been forced into exile.