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261. Jim Al-Khalili on the Joy of Science

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Is There a Democracy?

I was born in the early sixties, so i gew up in the sixties and seventies there. My father knew that if we didn't get out, you know, there'd be trouble. And sure enough, had we stayed in erarc, six months later, my brother and i would have been conscripted into the iraciran war of the nota. But sir, no, the allies decided, no, we've taught him a lesson. We need him as a buffer between us and the evil iatullas. So for me, two thousand and three, over throu sadam, i was very much conflicted. On the one hand,

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