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Video of the Week #31 February 22nd, 2012
From:What Processed Food Looks Like during Digestion of Course It s Not Pretty by Philip Yam at Observations.
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Source:Stefani Bardin at Eyebeam
Stefani Bardin, a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn how digestion differs between food chock full of preservatives and food that can actually go bad in a day. To create this video, she and her collaborator swallowed a camera pill along with their meals (which included Gatorade and Gummi bears). The camera here, called an M2A pill (for mouth to anus ) produced a stop-motion video down to the small intestine. Such cameras have limited medical uses, but boy, they sure do create a fun Fantastic Voyage -like experience. The video s actual alimentary angle begins at the two-minute mark.