2014年5月19日 · Brazil and Myanmar, which supply much of the world’s sesame seeds, are about to face their worst cicada infestations in two centuries.

In the first season of the HBO series Silicon Valley, Peter Gregory - an eccentric owner of a VC, orders a bunch of hamburgers, but instead of eating them, he just stares at them. When we...

This reminds me of the scene in Silicon Valley where Peter Gregory notices the popularity of Burger King, the number of sesame seeds they use, and remembers that sesame seeds only grow in Myanmar, Brazil, and Indonesia - the former two of which have large Cicada populations that emerge at different times.

2014年5月19日 · Brazil and Myanmar, which supply much of the world’s sesame seeds, are about to face their worst cicada infestations in two centuries. But Indonesia also grows sesame seeds but has no cicada ...

2020年5月21日 · The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17. Next year they will hatch, simultaneously, for the first time in 221 years. Crops from both countries will be decimated.

2020年1月5日 · This is my all time favorite Peter Gregory scene: Amusing coincidence that two of the three countries that provide the world's sesame seeds have such large cicada population, no? The cicadas of Myanmar emerge every 13 years, while the Brazilian cicadas emerge every 17.

From HBO's "Silicon Valley" S01E03, the genius of Peter Gregory is displayed in all its glory. In this episode Gregory realizes that the future market of ses...

2020年5月27日 · Cicadas appear somewhere in the US pretty much every single year because we have something like 23 different broods all on their own cycles. And every single year, someone publishes the headline "First cicadas in US in 17 years" because no journalists are held to facts anymore lol

2015年3月22日 · Couldn't find a vid for this so made one. Wow what an actor!

2014年6月19日 · In the third episode of HBO comedy Silicon Valley, titled “Articles of Incorporation,” eccentric tech billionaire and angel investor Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch) demonstrated exactly...