# How the tiny tardigrade could help solve big problems

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxBermuda
- Speaker: Dr. Thomas Boothby
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_thomas_boothby_how_the_tiny_tardigrade_could_help_solve_big_problems)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Meet the tardigrade: a 1-millimeter animal capable of surviving environmental extremes of heat, cold and high radiation. Science educator Thomas Boothby examines the chemical processes that preserve tardigrade physiology under duress and explains how they can inspire solutions to some of humanity’s own weather-related problems.

## Lectures

1. [How the tiny tardigrade could help solve big problems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dr_thomas_boothby_how_the_tiny_tardigrade_could_help_solve_big_problems/aa078f6f2a5d), 17 min (TED's player)