The Stuff of Genius - Refined Sugar

Before Norbert Rillieux's sugar evaporator, slaves across the New World risked severe -- and often fatal -- injury while refining sugar. Learn how this Stuff of Genius saved hundreds of lives and modernized sugar in this episode of The Stuff of Genius.

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[elizagraziani]

GENIUS

[tigersstrike]

no pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mapflu]

@dberisford Over-consumption of anything could kill. So I'm sure I will never mind.

[mapflu]

@Freemans166 Sugar is staple because its consumed often, almost everyday. For example rice is not a staple grain in US because its not consumed much there, but it is in Asia. Wheat is almost opposite. Wheat is a staple grain in US in the form of bread but bread is not consumed much in Asia.

[ericksonboang]

wooot!

[XmojotronX]

LOL



[InuMS]

Loosey goosey baby, loosey goosey.

[LeksServices]

@dberisford - Overconsumption of wheat is also deadly, as is overconsumption of meat. I guess we should just stop producing stuff that people use stupidly.

Mebbe not. We'd have to stop producing electricity and alcolol then.

Alcohol offenders - people who commit crimes while drunk, tend to drink to get over how bad their lives are, which causes them to commit more crimes. Those people should not be allowed to drink, but I don't hear a major national outcry to force them to register.

[Freemans166]

A staple Ohhhhhhhhhhh that's what you call it ....Sugar is NOT a staple food lolol ... great invention of a process

that's about it..

[dberisford]

Nevermind that it kills thousands of people who over-consume it...