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Collapsing pensions and civilisations

Unexpected Elements

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The Coolest Job in Science

Agriwela: Yeast is safe to pigs because you can take the DNA sequence that's responsible for insulin, take it out of pigs and put it into yeast. I think people do not understand what an essential role it plays to forget our food, right, but culturally. There are religions which specifically prohibit the byproducts of yeast. If I could get half the world to love me as much as they love yeast and the other half of the world to hate me asMuch as they hate yeast, they're like the Kardashians of the microlea. You're so enthusiastic about this and you get to kind of play with these microbes that can do all sorts of almost magic things

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