10:00The arcade
Insert no coins.
Games from inside your gut. No high scores here: your gut doesn’t keep score either.
Games
- Lunch RushLunch is served. Somebody has to do the dishes.Teaches: Which enzyme tool handles which food, and why inulin goes all the way to the colon.
- Spore Wars
A spore, a lake of acid and no swimming lessons.Teaches: Why a spore coat rides out stomach acid (about pH 1.5 to 3.5) and hatches further down. - Build-a-Microbe
Rods, branches, spores and sneakers. Mostly sneakers.Teaches: Microbes come in real shapes (rods, pairs, chains, Ys, spores, balls), and the shape tells you who you’re looking at. - Which Microbe Are You?
Deep down, are you a rod or a Y? Let’s find out.Teaches: Who the crew really are: their shapes, their jobs and their favourite hangouts. - Gas Forecast
Tonight’s outlook for Downtown, with Barry Metric.Teaches: Fibre and bean sugars your enzymes can’t cut get fermented by colon microbes into short-chain fatty acids and gas. - The Soundboard
Every SNIP, CLUNK and BLOOP on the channel. Press responsibly.Teaches: Which tool or moment each cartoon sound belongs to, and what that tool really does.
Far-out fact
Your gut has its own nervous system, with hundreds of millions of neurons.
Most of the traffic on the vagus nerve runs from the gut up to the brain, not the other way round.
Player two, press startAll games work with a mouse, a finger or a keyboard. Sound only plays when you press something.
Coming up next on Channel GG
Lunch Rush
Lunch is served. Somebody has to do the dishes.
