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[00:00:00] blasted media outlets that he could not control. CNN
[00:00:03] and MSDNC, they're really corrupt and they're
[00:00:07] illegal. What the president was doing in that
[00:00:11] March speech
[00:00:12] of was signaling that he wanted to take a firmer
[00:00:16] hand in deciding whom to prosecute. He is willing
[00:00:20] to use the power
[00:00:21] of the government in ways we just have not seen before, so
[00:00:24] openly. In
[00:00:28] this second term, it continues beyond the... Trump has engaged in
[00:00:31] pressure campaigns designed to bend institutions such as
[00:00:35] universities or top law firms to his will.
[00:00:39] These are the most powerful firms in the world and they
[00:00:43] just signed whatever I put in front
[00:00:44] of them. We've not seen anything like it. There's been sort of a
[00:00:48] universal falling in line. Schools such as
[00:00:52] Columbia or
[00:00:53] of Brown have made deals with the White House.
[00:00:56] Agree to massive finds and policy changes and number of top. firms have
[00:01:00] pledged nearly a billion dollars in pro-bono legal work that
[00:01:04] aligns with the
[00:01:05] of administration's agenda. if you're a private law firm and
[00:01:09] you helped try to take Donald Trump down, you're going to expect there's going to be some
[00:01:12] consequences. critics
[00:01:14] of the president see pattern, run foul
[00:01:17] of the president and his point of view, and you'll find yourself paying the
[00:01:20] price. the president is not
[00:01:23] necessarily himself going
[00:01:26] of after folks more aggressively than he did in term one, and the difference is not in the... and the
[00:01:30] differences in what's available to him, an
[00:01:33] entirely different government now that exists, generally
[00:01:37] speaking to do what he wants, and what he
[00:01:41] wants is revenge against his perceived political
[00:01:44] enemies. such as former FBI director James
[00:01:48] Comey, who drew
[00:01:49] the ey of Trump over his handling of investigations into
[00:01:52] a Russian interference in the 2016 election. Komi is charged with giving
[00:01:56] false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding related. to
[00:02:00] the testimony he gave before the senate judiciary committee five years
[00:02:04] ago. Komi maintains his innocence, and
[00:02:07] with Trump's pressure on the justice department, more investigations and
[00:02:11] indictments of his foes are likely to
[00:02:13] come. While Jimmy
[00:02:17] Kimmel is back on the air, Charlie Kirk's voice was
[00:02:21] silenced forever when he was tragically killed. And in
[00:02:25] this time of escalating partisanship, both sides can at least
[00:02:28] of hopefully agree on this. "the first amendment is a right that is
[00:02:32] fundamentally American. are we an era where free speech is under
[00:02:36] attack
[00:02:36] in a way we haven't seen it a long time? i'm pretty worried. right now, i
[00:02:40] think we are
[00:02:41] in a parallel stage, and again we have a president who is willing
[00:02:45] to use any lever of power against his enemies, whether it aviolates the
[00:02:48] first amendment or not. what kind of precedent is
[00:02:52] President Trump setting for a future democratic
[00:02:56] president who maybe has the same feeling about free speech?".
[00:03:00] that Donald Trump has, yeah, we've been trying to get conservatives to look at it like, what do
[00:03:04] you think president Aoc is going to do with this power? always think about what your
[00:03:08] nightmare opponent would do with this power? republicans for years and years and years have
[00:03:11] always been the stalwarts of free speech and not getting cancelled because of your beliefs
[00:03:15] and now for conservatives to kind of be the ones looking to cancel
[00:03:19] people, i think is very dangerous rabit hold to go down.
[00:03:23] we've seen
[00:03:24] of settlements, we've seen changes in
[00:03:27] approach to news, the thing we don't yet is how
[00:03:31] many smaller outlets are holding their fire, pulling
[00:03:35] back stories for fear of angering this
[00:03:38] president. these
[00:03:40] in comics, they believe they have a unique role, and they're right, they do,
[00:03:44] they are speaking up on behalf of many Americans who don't feel seen
[00:03:48] right now by the political
[00:03:49] of system. descent is democratic and it's
[00:03:53] critical a time when a democracy is backsliding, when it's moving
[00:03:57] in a more autocratic direction. this show is not in important, what is
[00:04:01] important is that we get to live
[00:04:02] in a country that allows us to have a show like
[00:04:05] this. what do
[00:04:09] you want people to know? just like that the price for a free
[00:04:12] society is that sometimes people are going to offend you? for me,
[00:04:16] i
[00:04:17] of think that we take freedom of speech for granted, and we will really
[00:04:20] regret when it's gone. disagreement is
[00:04:24] difficult, it's all painful stuff, but
[00:04:26] in a society where we can live in communities that are more politically homogenous. You
[00:04:30] shouldn't be surprised that people get somewhat out of practice of disagreement with each
[00:04:34] of other.
[00:05:01] They're found everywhere, Pefas: Toxic
[00:05:04] chemicals you can't see, smell or taste. Fish can
[00:05:08] reveal how much is present in water and which
[00:05:11] types. Birds of prey can show what
[00:05:14] contamination levels look like and bees are now viewed
[00:05:18] as good scientific indicators. Humans introduced
[00:05:22] peephas into the environment and now we're trying to get rid them
[00:05:25] again.
[00:05:30] Breaking down forever chemicals coming up tomorrow
[00:05:34] today. Welcome to the
[00:05:36] show. Pfaz
[00:05:40] sure can do lot of things. They make dental
[00:05:43] floss silky smooth, coat paper cups,
[00:05:47] waterproof clothes, they're in firefighting foam and even
[00:05:51] ensure nothing sticks to your frying pan, and they've been doing
[00:05:55] it for more than a century now. Thanks,
[00:05:57] Pefaz. But there's a catch. This
[00:06:01] group of compounds basically never breaks down. That's why they're
[00:06:05] also called forever chemicals. Once
[00:06:09] in the environment, Pifas get into drinking water. and food,
[00:06:13] eventually accumulating in our bodies. Elevated
[00:06:17] amounts them
[00:06:18] can cause cholesterol levels to rise, damage the liver,
[00:06:21] reduce vaccine effectiveness, impar immune system
[00:06:25] response and even lead to cancer.
[00:06:28] Newborns exposed to pifaz often weigh less at
[00:06:32] birth. Experts assume that nowadays, the
[00:06:35] chemicals can be found in all of us. Can we get rid
[00:06:38] them?
[00:06:42] Maybe with what's called the fourth state of matter, not
[00:06:46] a solid, not a liquid, not a gas,
[00:06:50] but what's known as plasma. It
[00:06:54] surrounds lightning, lives in fire,
[00:06:58] makes stars shine and causes the northern
[00:07:02] lights. Generated from an extremely hot
[00:07:05] gas, plasma is mixture of ions, electrons
[00:07:09] and neutral particles and research indicates it
[00:07:13] might be able to rid our water of forever
[00:07:16] chemicals.
[00:07:19] researchers at the foufa institute for interfacial engineering and
[00:07:23] biotechnology in Stuttgart have focused on contaminated
[00:07:27] water. Paul Reichle and Jacobs developed a
[00:07:31] system designed to eliminate pifas and other pollutants
[00:07:34] completely, one that doesn't leave behind any
[00:07:37] toxic residues. plasma plays a central
[00:07:41] role. "the researchers demonstrate their process
[00:07:45] on water that's leached out of a landfill
[00:07:48] site.
[00:07:52] It contains heavy metals, things like arsenic,
[00:07:56] mercury and cadmium,
[00:07:59] also household chemicals and pefas
[00:08:01] compounds. The polluted liquid contains
[00:08:05] all the stuff that makes life difficult for environmental engineers
[00:08:09] and in extremely high concentrations.
[00:08:13] Our method uses a plasma-based process, one of what are called
[00:08:17] advanced oxidation processes. The goal is to
[00:08:21] break pfast molecules down into their basic
[00:08:23] components. Here's how it
[00:08:27] works: the contaminated water is pumped into a
[00:08:30] vertical tube. At the top, it flows over and
[00:08:34] trickles back down along the outer surface the pipe.
[00:08:38] Above the pipe is a grid. A high-voltage current is
[00:08:42] applied. between pipe and grid, creating the
[00:08:45] plasma, but you can only really see it in
[00:08:48] complete
[00:08:49] darkness.
[00:08:53] plasma isn't just visually striking, it also has an
[00:08:57] effect on the contaminated liquid. as the water flows down
[00:09:01] the outside the tube through the discharge zone, the plasma breaks
[00:09:05] pifas molecule chains apart, shortening them over and
[00:09:09] over until all that's left is either carbon dioxide. or
[00:09:13] fluoride. The same principle can be used to break down
[00:09:16] other organic chemicals, including many
[00:09:19] pharmaceuticals. In this test, the water is cycled
[00:09:23] through the system about 40 times. Let's see
[00:09:27] how well it
[00:09:28] worked.
[00:09:42] and this is after the plasma treatment, you
[00:09:44] can see how it's cleared, most the pollutants have been
[00:09:49] dann removed, auch
[00:09:49] damit ein großteil der schadstoff.
[00:09:53] Today's promising lab results could in the future lead to
[00:09:56] changes in waste water treatment plants, helping to
[00:10:00] finally break down forever
[00:10:03] chemicals.
[00:10:07] stuff we no longer want gets thrown in the trash, but where does it
[00:10:11] end up? Landfills are bad for the environment, and lots of
[00:10:15] what's dumped there still contains valuable resources. We need to
[00:10:19] reclaim and reuse those materials. With textiles and
[00:10:23] some types of plastic, we already do a... fair bit of recycling, but other
[00:10:27] waste remains a big
[00:10:28] challenge. It's a
[00:10:32] treasure worth millions of euros and we throw it
[00:10:35] away. Solar
[00:10:39] panels generally work for about 20 years. After that they're
[00:10:43] mostly dismantled and scrapped. At this research center in
[00:10:47] Hala, find Zoble and his team want to stop the
[00:10:50] waste. In the next few years, Germany will see a massive
[00:10:54] spike.
[00:10:54] Currently
[00:10:59] Germany has about 80 gigaws of photovoltaic capacity, around
[00:11:02] 200 million tons of PV modules. They're made from valuable
[00:11:06] raw materials, about 200 thousand tons of silicon, around
[00:11:10] 3000 tons of copper and more than 2,00 tons of silver,
[00:11:14] essential resources that take a lot of time and effort to
[00:11:17] extract. The problem is that
[00:11:20] aged PV systems are treated simply as electronic
[00:11:24] waste.
[00:11:55] we could stop emitting enormous amounts of
[00:11:57] CO2. That's the researcher's
[00:12:01] plan. Here only silicon and plastic remain from the
[00:12:05] modules. These residues are shredded and
[00:12:08] then sorted into individual components. That's a
[00:12:12] difficult process because clean separation is crucial
[00:12:16] for reuse. The key challenge is
[00:12:19] processing silicon in ways that are both cost-effective and energy
[00:12:23] efficient.
[00:12:55] we're currently seeing on rooftops in Germany will need recycling in 10 to
[00:12:58] 20 years. We need to be prepared with processes that are economically
[00:13:02] viable. The method
[00:13:06] represents a big step forward, but solar panel recycling
[00:13:10] could be made even more
[00:13:11] efficient.os say it can
[00:13:15] be done cheaper and far more environmentally friendly using
[00:13:19] light. Their approach doesn't require shredding
[00:13:23] modules, instead, whole panels are fed into a
[00:13:27] system and exposed to a short, high-intensity flash of
[00:13:31] light. We can't see the
[00:13:35] flash, but we can hear the discharge.
[00:13:38] Okay, bereit, los geht's. The
[00:13:42] flash is quite audible, loud
[00:13:44] thump. It heats the module to several
[00:13:48] hundred degrees celsius, breaking the bond between plastic and
[00:13:52] silicon. Then the back layer is opened and silicon
[00:13:55] fragments are collected, the purity remains high and
[00:13:59] other complex post processing is required.
[00:14:03] another key advantage is that the system is mobile and fits into a shipping
[00:14:06] container, so pv arrays worldwide could
[00:14:10] theoretically be dismantled on site, that's
[00:14:13] cost-effective. the
[00:14:17] current approach is shredding and sorting, which only leads to
[00:14:20] downcycling. what we need is real
[00:14:23] recycling.
[00:14:31] words,
[00:14:33] In recovering other materials in their original quality, we're still far from
[00:14:37] that goal, especially when it comes to wind
[00:14:39] turbines. A company called Novotech
[00:14:43] specializes in recycling those. Systems like
[00:14:46] these also have to be retired after about 25 years of
[00:14:50] operation, but solutions in Germany are still
[00:14:54] lacking. for rotor blades in particular,
[00:14:57] around 50,00 tons per year will need recycling by
[00:15:01] 2040. Novotech
[00:15:04] founder Holga Sassa has made solving this problem his
[00:15:08] goal. The blades often lie
[00:15:12] around in fields for years, so I asked myself, what can we do with
[00:15:15] them? Right now, the standard method
[00:15:18] is to crush them and then burn them in cement plants.
[00:15:21] But our goal is to keep carbon in solid form, not to release.
[00:15:25] CO2 into the atmosphere. When these systems were
[00:15:29] built 25 years ago, no one thought about recycling, now
[00:15:33] Zasa is tackling the problems that's
[00:15:35] causing. his
[00:15:39] idea is to turn the material into a wood substitute for the
[00:15:43] construction industry. old rotor blades are
[00:15:47] delivered in pieces which are shredded in powerful
[00:15:51] grinder. after
[00:15:54] that the sorting begins, weil es ist
[00:15:58] natürlich nicht alles so gebraucht. not everything is usable or useful for
[00:16:02] us. there are lead weights, copper cables, those are all
[00:16:06] valuable materials.
[00:16:24] melted down and molded into new shapes, for example
[00:16:28] floorboards that can replace tropical
[00:16:30] These are hardwood. Because the material is highly durable, it's
[00:16:34] suitable even for demanding applications. like the support
[00:16:38] structures for solar installations, and sassa has of course thought
[00:16:42] about how these can be recycled in
[00:16:44] turn. Das
[00:16:48] neue Material, was hier
[00:16:49] entsteht,
[00:16:54] us in 20 or 30 years and turned into yet another
[00:16:57] product. It's high time
[00:17:01] to rethink recycling for solar panels and wind turbines,
[00:17:05] preserving the increasingly scarce. resources they contain for
[00:17:09] future
[00:17:09] generations.
[00:17:14] What's that noise? It's the sound of a single
[00:17:17] Maybug.
[00:17:19] Its powerful wings make loud buzz when it flies. No
[00:17:23] wonder, the insect isn't exactly aerodynamic, but
[00:17:27] though somewhat clumsy, it remains
[00:17:29] undaunted. People
[00:17:33] in May beetle fever. It's a maybug year,
[00:17:36] millions of... the insects suddenly appeared in Germany in the spring of
[00:17:40] 2026. Why so many at the same time? Is
[00:17:44] there reason to fear the invasion,
[00:17:46] and what does this rare natural spectacle have to do with the FIFA World
[00:17:49] Cup? Let's kick things
[00:17:53] off. This
[00:17:57] major natural spectacle of northern cockchavers is something that
[00:18:01] typically occurs in the dry regions called the Hesish
[00:18:04] Reed in the northern part the upper Rhine valley.
[00:18:17] cock chafers, commonly called may beatles or maybugs, are for the most part
[00:18:21] indigenous to Europe. In the course of its life, the insect undergoes
[00:18:25] a complete metamorphosis. It all
[00:18:29] starts in the soil. A mature female may bug lays
[00:18:33] up to 70 eggs. Tiny Larvy hatch few
[00:18:37] weeks. we call them grubs. During this
[00:18:40] lavel stage, which lasts three to four years, the grubs remain
[00:18:44] underground, a smart
[00:18:45] move.
[00:18:50] That keeps them hidden from potential predators while they feed viraciously
[00:18:54] on plant roots. Very large numbers of grubs can cause
[00:18:58] significant damage to forests, though generally nothing
[00:19:02] unsustainable. After all, woodland ecosystems are
[00:19:05] complex.
[00:19:37] the grubs bore down about meter into the soil and pupate.
[00:19:41] during this stage their bodies transform and they emerge looking like
[00:19:45] beetles rather than grubs. they then spend the winter
[00:19:48] underground before crawling to the surface in
[00:19:51] spring. they come up out the ground
[00:19:55] exiting from small holes, then
[00:19:58] they take off and start
[00:19:59] flying.
[00:20:07] Usually we only see them for few
[00:20:09] weeks. The short period they
[00:20:13] spend above ground is all the time they have
[00:20:15] left. Culturally,
[00:20:19] May beatles were once seen as a sign of spring. In Germany,
[00:20:23] songs and poems have been written about them, and the luck they
[00:20:27] supposedly bring. A distinctive feature, their
[00:20:30] anteni. In female beetles, six feathery structures resemble
[00:20:34] a fan, and the males.
[00:21:50] because may beetles sometimes strip entire forests and fields
[00:21:53] bare, they were hunted for centuries. In
[00:21:57] many places they were captured in huge
[00:21:59] numbers. In the swarm year of
[00:22:03] 1938, records reveal that in the German state of
[00:22:06] Schlesvich-holstein alone, more than 192,000
[00:22:10] kilograms of May beatles were collected, nearly 200
[00:22:14] million insects all told.
[00:22:18] Some ended up in pots. You can still find recipes for Maybug
[00:22:22] soup. First the beetles were fried in butter, then
[00:22:26] boiled in chicken broth and
[00:22:28] purade.
[00:22:31] Nowadays, may beatles have become a much rarer site. Decades
[00:22:35] of monoculture farming and pesticides have taken a heavy
[00:22:39] toll, so a mass emergence like this year's is actually
[00:22:42] reason for celebration, and in some parts of Germany it's
[00:22:46] also associated with the World Cup.
[00:23:20] generation of May Beatles should emerge again for yet another May
[00:23:23] Beatle Year
[00:23:24] classic.
[00:23:29] There's something else associated with springtime, at least here in
[00:23:33] Germany. Asparagus. Every year its appearance
[00:23:37] heralds the end of winter. What happens when you eat it?
[00:23:41] Prompted a question from a viewer in
[00:23:43] Croatia.
[00:23:47] Why does urine have intense characteristic? or after
[00:23:50] consuming asparagus, whether
[00:23:54] green or white, shoots from the asparagus are viewed as healthy
[00:23:58] addition to any diet, but eating it can have noticeable side
[00:24:02] effect: soon after consumption, your urine can acquire a
[00:24:06] powerful odor, or at least in some people it
[00:24:09] can, lots of people would recognize the scent, though some
[00:24:13] can't smell it at all? confused
[00:24:16] yet? okay, let's start at the beginning:
[00:24:20] Researchers believe that what ultimately leads to that smelly tinkle
[00:24:24] is a small molecule the plant contains lots of
[00:24:28] called asparagusic acid. It's pretty
[00:24:31] odorless, but see those
[00:24:33] two esses down at the bottom, those represent sulfur
[00:24:37] atoms and sulphur is an element that plays role in lots of
[00:24:41] powerful sense. It's a major component in
[00:24:44] skunk spray, for instance, and it gives garlic its
[00:24:48] characteristic pong. After you
[00:24:52] chow down on the vegetable, your body can turn innocuous
[00:24:55] asperagus acid into stuff that reaks a lot
[00:24:59] more, like dimethyl sulfide, one
[00:25:02] component in the smell of rotting meat or
[00:25:06] methanethiol, which helps give some cheeses their
[00:25:09] distinctive tangy smell, and not just
[00:25:12] cheeses. The molecule is also
[00:25:16] associated with bad breath, but not.
[00:25:20] everyone's metabolism turns asparagus acid into lots of stronger
[00:25:24] smelling stuff, some people don't have detectible
[00:25:27] asparagus pee. why? either their bodies don't break down
[00:25:31] asparagus acid in the first place, or don't turn it into noticeable
[00:25:35] levels of stinky compounds. what makes things even
[00:25:39] more complicated is the sense of smell itself.
[00:25:43] special cells inside your nose are studded with different kinds
[00:25:47] of highly specific receptors. when the... white scent
[00:25:50] molecules dock on, you smell that specific smell, but
[00:25:54] if you don't have the jeans to make receptors for the stinky compounds and
[00:25:58] asparagus pee, you won't smell them, even in
[00:26:01] your own urine. so bottom line, not
[00:26:04] everyone who eats asparagus will necessarily produce strongly
[00:26:08] scented characteristic pee after, and even in those who do,
[00:26:12] not everyone will be able to smell
[00:26:42] want to remain healthy as we age. scientists have found that
[00:26:46] more than anything else, our relationships with people contribute to
[00:26:49] happiness and wellbeing. having a wide social network has
[00:26:53] powerful effect. that's one the findings from a study at
[00:26:57] Harvard that's been going on for over 80 years now. and
[00:27:01] another factor or... plays
[00:27:03] role, remarks like you have
[00:27:07] beautiful smile make us happy, and they do
[00:27:10] more. compliments are more than just kind words,
[00:27:14] they're an essential aspect of close
[00:27:16] relationships. at the institute of medical
[00:27:20] psychology at Heidelberg university hospital, Monica
[00:27:23] Eckstein researches social interactions. she's
[00:27:27] studied what happens in the brain when couples give each other
[00:27:30] compliments.
[00:29:34] therapy, small positive interactions seem to have a big
[00:29:38] impact on how we feel and perceive our daily
[00:29:41] lives.
[00:29:42] a good compiment a relationship or a friendship should be personal and
[00:29:46] authentic. is
[00:29:49] there a compliment you'd like to give, assume to your
[00:29:52] girlfriend? she has very, very beautiful
[00:29:56] eyes and wonderful smile, and i especially love her
[00:29:59] dimples.
[00:30:33] Happy Faces in Heidelberg, inspired by sincere
[00:30:37] compliments, we could all give them a little more