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Higher Animals with Michael Specter
Revisionist History
The Existential Question of Blue Jeans
The book began with smallpox and moved on to blue jeans. You end up getting to someone who solved the blue-gene dye problem. It's an environmental problem that is a result of us having to rely on chemicals. And what they're saying is we don't need to build with chemistry. We can build with biology instead.
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