| Fear the Reaper: Breeding the World's Hottest Pepper | | In the competitive world of hot pepper breeding, one man is smoking the competition. Meet "Smokin'" Ed Currie. He's the man behind the world's hottest pepper—the "Carolina Reaper." For the past three decades, Currie has been pushing the limits of the Scoville scale—breeding hotter and hotter peppers. You may want to have some milk ready for this one. | | | This Man Turned a Car Into a Motorbike to Escape the Desert | | In one of his many road trips to Morocco, Emile Leray (nicknamed the "Doctor of African Mechanics" by his friends) hit a roadblock ... literally. With his car's front axel destroyed and a limited food supply, Leray faced an uncertain future. So what did he do? He engineered the ultimate DIY escape. | | | | | Welcome to the City of Violins | | Cremona, Italy, is a city with a very special (and very musical) history. It's a city of master craftsmen who specialize in one thing—violins. The northern Italian city is credited as the birthplace of the string instrument and remains home to Stradivari, maker of some of the world's most coveted and expensive violins. To this day, more than 100 traditional violin makers carry on that legacy. | | | | This Dialect Coach Can Transport You With Her Perfect Accents | | Sammi Grant has an ear for accents—so much so that she can flawlessly speak English in 12 different accents from around the world. How does she do it? Grant says that being legally blind helped her become more in-tune with her hearing. Now, as a dialect coach, she uses her talent to teach stage and television actors how to speak with accents from Australia to Scotland to Russia. | | | | | |
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