Check out one of the world's most ancient snacks up close - and it looks like a bunch of bubbles. (Reposting to correct "Central America" to "Mesoamerica.")

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Produced by Adam Cole
Slow motion footage by Gabriella Garcia-Pardo

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Microscopy by Murry Gans
http://murry-gans.blogspot.com/

Historic Illustrations:
The Universal History of the Things of New Spain
1575-1577 Bernardino de Sahagún
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10096/

Ancient Popcorn Paper:
Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru
Alexander Grobman, Duccio Bonavia, Tom D. Dillehay, Dolores R. Piperno, José Iriarte and Irene Holst
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/5/1755

Music
“Abu Hassan” by Carl Maria von Weber
Barry Francis, Focus Music

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