Bart Weetjens How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

Sit, sniff butt.

So I said to a nurse, 'Did you know that the U.S. army is training bumblebees to sniff out explosives?' When I read my medical notes, I saw they'd written 'Believes bees can sniff out explosives.' He said, You know, they're always looking out for non verbal clues to my mental state.

Yes, we put sniff butt on queue.

I subscribe to New Scientist, and recently it had an article about how the U.S. Army was training bumblebees to sniff out explosives.

The dog can sniff your butt, if you like, when he wants to.

As I said, if he's in the park and there's a rear end to sniff, why come to the owner?

MUMBAI Every day, a small Japanese jet brings another 60 businessmen from Tokyo to sniff out new commercial opportunities in Mumbai and the heart of the Indian economy. Naturally, there may be a touch of geopolitical calculation about this.

At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his hero rats in action, and previews his work's next phase teaching them to turn up tuberculosis in the lab.

And sometimes they'll resort to what's known as the burn and sniff technique where they'll burn the plastic and smell the fumes to try to determine the type of plastic.

Now, the idea of connecting a sensor to your phone is not new phone makers around the world offer phones that sniff for bad breath, or tell you to worry about too much sun exposure.

We don t literally raise our hackles when angry, or sniff each other s backsides when making new friends. And dogs don t gesture with their forepaws or use an elaborate grammatical language when trying to explain things.

Elizabeth Get out! Get out! Get out!

Watch out! Watch Out!

Out of my way. Out of my way. Out of my way.

This comes out. This comes out.

Helium splits out, and a neutron comes out and lots of energy comes out.

Get out of it, get it out.

The chorus continues Pump it out, pump it out, I'm feeding them babies, pump it out, pump it out, I'm milking my ladies.

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

But now, we're going to meet out! Out!

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

It can be achieved out of innocence, or arrogance, or out of selfishness, sometimes out of carelessness.

Third box is out. The fourth box is out.

Now bring it out, bring it out. Anybody else?

Out of them both come out pearl and coral.

Out of them both come out pearl and coral.

And we're starting to move out of the just out of copyright into the out of print world.

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Handing out aid, shooting back, handing out aid, shooting back.

And then everybody kind of runs out and goes out.

The candle went out instead of having been put out.

Going out in this rain is out of the question.

Out!

Get them out of schools, and keep them out of schools.

You get one out of 20, one out of 30 products.

OK, now they're duking it out. Now they're duking it out.

The uterus would fall out, literally fall out of the body.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners

And it turns out that different things crystallize out at different stages.

Get out of the airplane, it turns out you're trekking in Nepal.