More Cheese, Please - Life Lab Pt. 1

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

What does cheese have to do with technology? What does engineering have to do with biology? And why should we know about it? We’ll slice into these questions to get a taste of what synthetic biology is, how it's already in our lives, and how it got there.

Welcome to Life Lab! This is the first part of our five part series about how tiny life can change everything. In Life Lab, we explore the incredible power of synthetic biology to solve some of our biggest challenges - and asking how it could change our future.

This episode features Christina Agapakis and Kristala Prather.

Life Lab is supported by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium, a non-profit committed to educating the next-generation and building a community dedicated to solving big challenges with engineering biology. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

We have two bonus interviews for you this week, featuring Christina and Kris! They’re available to Tumble Patrons who pledge just a dollar or more a month, on patreon.com/tumblepodcast.

You can find a transcript and other educational materials about this episode on the blog on our website, sciencepodcastforkids.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay.
0:05.0	And I'm Marshall.
0:06.0	Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discovery.
0:10.1	We're kicking off this season with something a little different.
0:12.8	This is the first part of LifeLab, our five-part series about how tiny life can change everything.
0:18.6	LifeLab will explore the incredible power of a new technology you probably haven't heard
0:24.3	of to solve some of the biggest challenges on the planet and beyond.
0:30.1	But with great power comes great responsibility.
0:32.9	We'll be asking how this technology could or should change our future.
0:38.9	That sounds kind of like a lot to do.
0:40.9	Where do we even start?
0:42.4	Well, let's start in the most obvious place.
0:45.4	Cheese.
0:46.4	Cheese?
0:47.4	That's not obvious.
0:48.4	You'll see.
0:54.2	A few years ago, my friend did something really weird with cheese.
0:57.9	And they haven't stopped thinking about it since.
1:01.2	You were recording a podcast about cheese, and I was swabbing people's belly buttons
1:08.2	to sample their microbiome, the bacteria that live inside their belly buttons so I could
1:12.9	make cheese out of it for an art project that I was doing at the time.
1:16.9	It's Christina Agapacas, who's a scientist and artist.
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