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Dec 2021
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GMO Food Science 101 and How to Hear Som...

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Learn about GMOs with help from Dr. Patrick Cournoyer of the FDA. Plus: a trick for hearing someone in a noisy room.

FDA's Feed Your Mind website: https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/agricultural-biotechnology

To hear someone in a noisy room, look at their face by Grant Currin

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