SciShow: What Fake Fragrances Teach Us About Sustainability

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Content of the Lesson: Humans love to make perfumes and fragrances from the weirdest sources, And to protect those sources, we sometimes come up with synthetic alternatives....which then create their own sets of environmental problems. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Drew Hart. Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/231442 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27757133?seq=1 https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/61/8/1313/630486 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058951/ https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Squalene https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54730-w https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41755/160983555 https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/wildlife_practice/about_species/ https://us.whales.org/2015/09/10/ambergris-lucky-lucrative-and-legal/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504449/ https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/163263 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sclareol https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-12-119 https://www.scentspiracy.com/synthetics/ambroxan https://www.nature.com/articles/srep32650 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76624-y https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160781/ https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-069X-13-14 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30888404.pdf https://chemistry.illinois.edu/system/files/inline-files/12_Moore_Abstract_SP05.pdf https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/4/392/htm https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/9/2/371 https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/103260/2/104416.1.pdf https://pubs.rsc.org/hy/content/articlelanding/2010/gc/b921126h https://www.jstor.org/stable/24089347?seq=1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00049158.2020.1841441 http://www.fao.org/3/ap001e/ap001e15.pdf https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/11944/2/Texto%20integral.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/56377175.pdf https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/gc/d0gc03685d https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00121/full http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/vanillin/vanillinh.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6547943/ Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecomare_-_ambergris_van_potvis_in_2012_(potvis2012-ambergris-2164-em).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambergris.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Test_tubes_of_porphyrine_solution_under_UV.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primary_Form_of_Musk.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santali1.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santali2.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SandalwoodEssOil.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santalum_album_(Chandan)_in_Hyderabad,_AP_W_IMG_0029.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indonesia_Madagascar_Locator.svg


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