
The Colin McEnroe Show We're Scrambling to Insert Our DNA Into MRSA
Oct 20, 2014
49:30
Okay, I'm warning you. You're going to have to adjust the band on your thinking cap. Christian Bok, our first guest, is an experimental poet with some fascinating ideas, some of which will strike you as unfamiliar and maybe dissimilar to any other ideas you ever heard. In a nutshell, Bok is part of a small movement of thinkers and writers who want to revolutionize the way literature is produced, stored and consumed. For example, Bok has spent years trying to encode a poem into the DNA of a bacterium able to survive extreme conditions, like vacuums.
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