Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.
Locally, Tsakonas has developed close working relationships with artisans, whose traditional techniques are behind the houses' stacked stone walls and perfect whitewash.
The team heads north to Fes, Morocco's culinary capital, to receive cooking lessons from Lahcen Beqqi, a top chef who has figured out how to blend traditional cooking with modern techniques.
Opened in 1986, El Celler is known for dishes that blend innovative cooking techniques with traditional ingredients, such as lobster parmentier with black trumpets and Iberian suckling pig with pepper sauce and garlic and quince terrine.
"Caviar in France is produced in a very traditional way, with techniques almost identical to the production of wild caviar in Iran and Russia, " says Alan Jones, a caviar consultant and former producer.
"Floribbean" cooking mixes elements of traditional Caribbean cookery with modern techniques and an emphasis on fresh produce, while the style known as "Nuevo Latino" revisits classic recipes from all over Latin America, using choicer cuts of meats, healthier ingredients and an added an North American sensibility.
The teams blend traditional style with modern, innovative techniques, so the result is more than just living history, it's the evolution of a culture that most Americans think has all but died away.
In working to restore monumental buildings using traditional techniques, Daemokjang practitioners reinterpret the beauty of traditional architecture with their artistic creativity and re-create it with their technical skills.
Though he's known for upgrading traditional Southern cuisine with cutting-edge techniques (he uses liquid nitrogen in cold-milling corn for grits), Mr. Brock believes cooking simply is just as challenging as cooking with modern gadgets.
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The new sensors are able to produce a result in two minutes, compared with the 30 minutes or more required by traditional laboratory techniques.
Risk analytics can augment more traditional reporting, business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities with newer techniques in modeling, claims analytics and fraud analytics.
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Vatsaloo brought that about, too, by sketching out modern designs based on the natural forms of the countryside, and with Srithap painstakingly devising a way to render them by combining two traditional techniques.
Even with alternative investments and other portfolio hedging techniques, bonds are a traditional asset class that can play a useful role in diversifying a portfolio and mitigating risk in any market environment.
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As computer circuits shrink toward atomic dimensions - which they have for decades in accordance with Moore's Law - chip designers are running into physical limitations using traditional techniques.
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Young people might now be totally au fait with social networking sites, but are not aware of all the techniques of more traditional networking.
The idea was to go beyond traditional motivational techniques to cultivate passionate employees who believe in what they are doing with an almost religious zeal.
However, in recent decades the numbers of women with the weaving and embroidery skills at their command has severely declined to the extent that traditional Li textile techniques are exposed to the risk of extinction and are in urgent need of protection.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
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