Meet the guy who cooks for fliesand for science

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 1 p.m.

\u201cBloomington is known in the science world--if you say Bloomington, people think fruit flies.\u201d\xa0

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This week on our show, we tap into the 15 years deep Earth Eats archive, for one of my very favorite stories. It\u2019s about our visit to the kitchen of a science building on the campus of Indiana University, where they prepare food for a tiny organism that supports genetic research around the globe. This one is from 2020, so you\u2019ll hear some mention of the global pandemic. This is a strange one\u2013but fascinating.