Episode 284: Climate Change, Crystals and Cheese

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Episode 284: Climate Change, Crystals and Cheese

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Nov 21, 2016

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Dr. Paul Kindstedt – University of Vermont professor and author of the seminal book on cheese history, Cheese and Culture – joins host Greg Blais. They discuss how his program of literature-based scholarship on cheese history has converged with his laboratory-based research on cheese crystallography through the topic of climate change.

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Nov 21, 2016

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