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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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We've Done It, We're Getting on Top of Malaria

We are just a very tempting target for respiratory varuses. The average child gets seven to ten colds a winter. There's something like 200 different types of varus that cause the common cold. We will win our battles against most pathagins because we have so much possibility of ingenuity now, of human ingenuity, to help us defeat them. It was a fascinating experience digging deep into the origins of those ideas.

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