The World is a Laboratory
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The 50 Cent Microscope
Manu Prakash is a bioengineer at Stanford and he's invented a paper kit that unfolds into an actual working microscope. He wants the tools of science to be portable and inexpensive so they can go anywhere in the world. This 50 cent microscope can actually detect malaria and lots of other infectious diseases. Hope Jaren is a geobiologist at the University of Oslo. Her memoir is called Lab Girl.
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