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Ryan North: How to Invent Everything

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Evolution of the Tuning Fork

A lot of the food we eat today benefits from selective breeding. We've made plants that we found in nature, and we've made them more suitable to our purposes by just breeding them the way we want it. So corn is a great example of a thing we have selected we bred the heck out of. But there's also some foods you can't reproduce in the past but will if you go back in time. Another example here is the pink, red grape root which had a bad rap thanks to atomic bombs.

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