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Jun 2019
23m 46s

Buscando el Río Hirviente (In Search of ...

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Andrés Ruzo grew up listening to his grandfather tell a story about a river with boiling waters in the Amazon. When he later became a scientist specializing in geothermal energy, he set a goal for himself: to go deep into the jungle and find that river.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3rer8Px.

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