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Cooper Turley • The Rise of Micro-Economies
amalgam
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
the 1670s, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a cloth merchant in Delft, needed an instrument to examine the quality and integrity of thread.
Siddhartha Mukherjee • The Song of the Cell
Proprietary Technology
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Pincus left Harvard and founded his own research center, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His concern about the world “population explosion” led him to propose a study of contraception. Might there be a pill or a shot that could reliably suppress ovulation? It was a fine question, but Pincus couldn’t get funding to answer it, either from pharmaceutical
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Laboratory for Anatomical Enlightenment in Boulder, Colorado,