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Steven Johnson wants to know how enlightenment happens

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The Extra Life Book - The World's Most Boring Idea

The story of milk is a story bat the limit of science to solve problems. It was like a social movement back then, which sounds strange that people were fighting over milk. And so when we think about innovations that drive progress, right? Part of it is you have to come up with scientific breakthroughs, but you also have to invent things like the fda. Right? These are things that didn't exist before and that now, for the most part, make life better.

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