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The Universe in a Glass of Wine (Richard Feynman Remixed)
Season 2
Episode 13
What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.
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