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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting November 21st. I'm Steve Merski.

This week on the podcast, Carol Chen helps us celebrate the beginning of the official

overeating season with a salute to cheese. And our own Christy Nicholson tells us about the new

Siam community. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

First up, Carol Chen, her official title, one of the great science titles,

Cheese Application Research at the Center for Dairy Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

I was in Madison in October and spoke to Carol Chen at a picnic table right outside Babcock Hall,

home of the Center for Dairy Research.

Hi, Ms. Chen. Good to talk to you today. Hello, Steve. So tell me about your background. You're a food scientist. Yes, I'm a food scientist. I have a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison,

and I've been with the Wisconsin

Center for Dairy Research for about 15 years.

And you are a cheese expert?

I'm not the big cheese here, but I do know a few details about cheese.

So tell everybody, you know, what's cheese?

I know that it's a dairy product, but that's pretty much all I know.

What is cheese?

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