At the University of Colorado, microbiologist Rob Knight is exploring a new frontier — the human microbiome.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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"Natto" is gaining popularity with home fermentation enthusiasts. Producer Erik Lorenzsonn heads to the Reedsburg Fermentation Fest to ask why, as well as ponder other fermentation mysteries.
What if we could harness nature to grow clothing for us? London-based fashion designer Suzanne Lee explains how.
Take a big slab of shark meat, bury it in a pit and let it rot. Then dig it up and hang it in a windy shack for four months. No wonder the Vikings took to sea.
Sauerkraut, kimchee, kefir, kombucha — Sandor Katz calls himself a "fermentation fetishist."
Nobel Prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk offers his take on why he writes.
In her book "Citizen: An American Lyric," poet Claudia Rankine challenges readers to explore their underlying assumptions about race. She tells Charles Monroe-Kane what compelled her to write the book, and about visiting Ferguson, Missouri.
The story of finding and recording the rarest bird in America: the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
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