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Measure for Measure Episode 5: Scoville
Ministry of Ideas
English - March 06, 2023 09:00 - 9 minutes - ★★★★★ - 146 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture History culture philosophy history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Taste is a subjective experience. We know this because eggs pickled in human urine, cheese with live maggots living in it, fertilized and mostly-developed duck eggs, rotten shark, calf blood and cheese whiz are all delicacies somewhere. But there is a flavor that we can measure and compare objectively. Kind of.
This episode was produced by Andrew Middleton and Liya Rechtman.
Special thanks to our taste-testers: Brian Sexton, Daniel Siegel, Grace Gouddis, Gregory Fredle, Lois Rosson, Maiya Zwerling, Michelle Tigchelaar, Simon Brown, and Val McGraw.
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Taste is a subjective experience. We know this because eggs pickled in human urine, cheese with live maggots living in it, fertilized and mostly-developed duck eggs, rotten shark, calf blood and cheese whiz are all delicacies somewhere. But there is a flavor that we can measure and compare objectively. Kind of.
This episode was produced by Andrew Middleton and Liya Rechtman.
Special thanks to our taste-testers: Brian Sexton, Daniel Siegel, Grace Gouddis, Gregory Fredle, Lois Rosson, Maiya Zwerling, Michelle Tigchelaar, Simon Brown, and Val McGraw.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices