More than a collection of fixed truths, science can be an ongoing narrative, one that continually reshapes how we understand bodies, identity, and life itself. In this episode, we explore how scientific ideas evolve, transform, and eventually become obsolete.

This shifting nature of knowledge is at the core of our conversation with artist Kirsty Hendry. Through texts and moving images, Hendry’s practice examines the body as a social and cultural construct, with a particular focus on the human microbiome, questioning where the boundaries of the self begin and end.

If you send a mixture of soybeans and koji mold to outer space, will it ferment as miso, even so far away from home?

How do you bring it back to Earth? How will it taste like? Can we still call it miso?

This is the second part of our conversation with Joshua Evans, from the Sustainable Food Innovation at the Danish Technical University’s Center for Biosustainability. We had previously talked about how miso was sent to space. In this episode, we will find out how it returned to Earth, and what fermenting in space means to earthly food systems.

Get ready for a techy and scifi’sh episode, where we learn more about designing an experiment that implies sending fermented food to outer space.

There’s a phenomenon experienced by people who have seen the Earth from outer space. It is known as the “Overview Effect”: a new level of compassion and understanding of how fragile and interconnected life is. What could bring us closer to the Overview Effect without leaving Earth? How can we embody what is hard to grasp, relate to, and integrate into a conscious interconnectedness beyond intellectual understanding? What if, instead of looking from far away, as in the Overview Effect, we looked into ourselves from a microscopic close-up? Could we get closer to a sense of expanded consciousness within the Earth’s ecosystem and beyond our simplified identities?These are the questions that led me to develop the project “Insideview”, an audio-visual ritual to compost human exceptionalism, performed in January 2025, at Helsinki’s SOLU space. Together with an amazing team that included Aga Bułacik, Vaim Sarv, and Ola Zielińska, we intertwined folk songs, ferments, words, and holographic projections of the human microbiome to set on a dreamy journey to re-imagine our relationship with the living world, both within and around us. Drawing inspiration from death doulas who use songs to create safe spaces for letting go, we hummed along to hospice human exceptionalism and confront our fears of insignificance.