Do you like mussels?

Timed degradation packaging that is good until you don't want it to be good anymore, and dissolves on cue.

One of the other things we did was begin to diversify the species that we served small silverfish, anchovies, mackerel, sardines were uncommon.

Placed over white rice 'cause clams were easy to get.

We went and found these incredible clam beds sitting on the barren rock.

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Gramshell's folly.

I'm allergic to shellfish.

This is the shell.

Off the coast of California comes this

What do you want to eat right now?

Natural shells, natural biological materials.

Now, you've heard about this in terms of nanotechnology.

It depends on the strength of the flame, the pan used and the type of ingredients.

I don't like shellfish.

I didn't talk, because I played a waiting game.

Large clams, and when we opened them, they didn't look like a clam.

This is just a simple list of some of the types of poisons that come out of these harmful algal blooms shellfish poisoning,fish ciguatera, diarrheic shellfish poisoning you don't want to know about that neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning.

And you look behind you, and there's destruction all around you.

You're so clever, but you're not as clever as a clam.

Shellfish, mussels, oysters, clams, tilapia, char these were the common species.

But when you look closer at this, look at what's there, it's really quite amazing.

We're done. You know, I've seen that island.

No mouth, no gut, no digestive system.

If there used to be a sea here, why aren't there any sea shells?

My family own half of Print Shop Boulevard. I want a lawyer

The Yoruba, in Nigeria, used cowry shells as currency and developed an amazingly complex number system.

French physiologist Raphael Dubois, asked about this bioluminescent clam.

So you can imagine a reality where the central bank of our island, all of a sudden, they find hundreds of seashells.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

I thought I'd talk a little bit about how nature makes materials.

What did you do that was so bad?

Hello? This is the Coquille d'Or, that's right.

How was your meal at the Coquille d'Or?

I'm making you another Seashell necklace.

Then she uses that seashell to buy a house.

So this is a potent force in fluid systems, and just to sort of take it one step further,

Right now? I want to eat cockle! Cockle...

Marge is ill. Ate a funny whelk.

And maybe I'm the builder, and this guy's the fisherman, and she's the farmer.

What's it going to look like?

You have things like coral.

Put on a mask and believe

Now in the laboratory, if you take a clam and you put it in the pH that is not 8.1, which is the normal pH of seawater, but 7.5, it dissolves in about three days.

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