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The proverbial best minds do not go into soil science and do not try their hand at making better cement; instead they are attracted to dealing with disembodied information, now just streams of electrons in myriads of microdevices. From lawyers and economists to code writers and money managers, their disproportionately high rewards are for work
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when high-heat cooking methods are used.
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interference (RNAi).
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Then there’s glass—in our windows, jars and bottles, insulation, cars, and the fiber-optic cables that give you a high-speed internet connection.
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When Watson showed the physicist Leo Szilard the model, Szilard immediately asked him, “Can you patent it?”50 (Szilard himself had many patents, including one on the nuclear chain reaction, which he donated to the British government in 1934.) But Watson knew you can’t patent anything without a practical application, and he still had no idea how
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