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Zach Galifianakis digs into the world of gardening, interviewing curious kids and eccentric experts in a funny, oddball celebration of the food we eat.
Zach visits a local orchard to get to the core of how to grow apples, alongside some juicy conversations with apple-loving kids.
Fruit or vegetable? Zach enlists some expert farmers to unearth the secrets behind the best tomatoes — and learns they're more than just "pre-ketchup."
Zach strays from the garden into the wilderness to learn the art of finding food from two French foragers, culminating in a woodland tea party.
Zach turns his curiosity about root vegetables into a trip through kid logic, farm fields and the surprisingly wild lives of carrots and potatoes.
Zach gathers kernels of knowledge from a corn expert and rides shotgun with farmer Murray.
From scents to science, Zach and his kid crew dig into composting, as an expert breaks down the dos and don'ts of making healthy soil.
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The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.
Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
