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.
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Sauerkraut, kimchee, kefir, kombucha — Sandor Katz calls himself a "fermentation fetishist."
Fermentation revivalists share a slow food philosophy, a DIY approach to foodcraft, and a deep interest in the health of the American gut.
Our planet is facing a mass extinction crisis. By the end of the century, we could lose up to half of all living species. But people are working hard to save endangered species and habitats, and a few scientists are even trying to bring lost species - like passenger pigeons and woolly mammoths...
The story of finding and recording the rarest bird in America: the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
Writer Benjamin Kunkel bookmarks Herman Daly's "Steady-State Economics."
Photographer Rachel Sussman has documented 30 of the oldest living things in the world. Beautiful and romantic, her photos document both the adaptation and fragility inherent to surviving for tens of thousands of years.
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