{"podcast":{"title":"Recombination Nation","slug":"recombination-nation-7074994","podcast_index_feed_id":7074994,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/zeroinputagriculture/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/zeroinputagriculture/20251101_011137_8332e5c9d1ea11b2e70aae811057e22c.png","author":"Shane Simonsen","episode_count":84,"summary":"Explore the intersection of evolution, ecology and civilisation with crop and livestock breeders, low input farmers, social engineers and a dazzling array of deep thinkers. Read more of Shane Simonsen's work at the Recombination Nation substack.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T12:18:53.441680+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994"},"episode":{"title":"The Microbiome Revolution with Stephen Skolnick","slug":"the-microbiome-revolution-with-stephen-skolnick","published_at":"2026-01-08T03:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/the-microbiome-revolution-with-stephen-skolnick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture/2416019","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/297868/2416019/zeroinputagriculture/2025_12_28_04_24_16_8b75e425-bce1-4cfe-a4c0-0363b93a0803.mp3","summary":"Stephen Skolnick is a human microbiome researcher exploring the outer fringes of this rapidly expanding field. His theories on the microbiological origins of a host of significant and baffling diseases like schizophrenia and type 1 diabetes can be found on his substack. Stephen's Substack Eat Shit and Prosper: https://stephenskolnick.substack.com Another episode about the power of microbiology with Bacterium: https://rss.com/podcasts/zeroinputagriculture/2198945/ https://youtu.be/I30ZJcklA3Q?si=HWKM6yL-GB-ywtGh Find more of Shane's work at Substack: https://recombinationnation.substack.com Read his book, Taming the Apocalypse, about the future of post industrial biological technology: https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Apocalypse-Shane-Simonsen-ebook/dp/B0D2XCLJ85/","meta_description":"Stephen Skolnick is a human microbiome researcher exploring the outer fringes of this rapidly expanding field. His theories on the microbiological origins…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8715,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recombination-nation-7074994/episodes/the-microbiome-revolution-with-stephen-skolnick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recombination-nation-7074994/the-microbiome-revolution-with-stephen-skolnick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}