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From the Ted Talk by Christina Agapakis: What happens when biology becomes technology?
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The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made using bacteria that I swabbed from in between my toes. I told you that the poop changed my life. I worked with the sleml artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas to explore all of the ways that our bodies and cehese are connected through smell and therefore microbes. And we created this cheese to chgelnale how we think about the beactria that's part of our lives and the bacteria that we work with in the lab. We are, indeed, what we eat.
Open Cloze
The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made using bacteria that I swabbed from in between my toes. I told you that the poop changed my life. I worked with the _____ artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas to explore all of the ways that our bodies and ______ are connected through smell and therefore microbes. And we created this cheese to _________ how we think about the ________ that's part of our lives and the bacteria that we work with in the lab. We are, indeed, what we eat.
Solution
- cheese
- smell
- challenge
- bacteria
Original Text
The last chapter of my dissertation was all about cheese that I made using bacteria that I swabbed from in between my toes. I told you that the poop changed my life. I worked with the smell artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas to explore all of the ways that our bodies and cheese are connected through smell and therefore microbes. And we created this cheese to challenge how we think about the bacteria that's part of our lives and the bacteria that we work with in the lab. We are, indeed, what we eat.
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