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20. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)

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The Future of Food

Food scientists have done things that a few decades ago nobody would have thought possible. By some estimates, between one third and one half of all food produced in America is never eaten. Pablo's Holman made his name as a computer hacker; he now works at Intellectual Ventures Lab. He has worked on commercial spaceflight, building the world's smallest computer, making self-sterilizing elevator buttons for hospitals,. And trying to stop destructive hurricanes from reaching land.

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