Episode
How Do They Do It?: Salad, Rope, Insulin
Overview
How do they cultivate green salad on scorching desert plains, how do they make rigging for ships and how do they produce lifesaving insulin from bread?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 10
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2013-09-19
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Salad, Rope, Insulin is Episode 4 in Season 10 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2013-09-19. The runtime is 22 min.
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