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Apr 2022
48m 59s

Go Forth and Multiply

Festival of the Spoken Nerd
About this episode

In this episode, Matt finds out how a runaway algorithm created the world’s most expensive book, Helen searches for the most singable fruit fly genes and Steve considers whether donating a kidney is easier than buying a house:

- Steve's bit (00:46)

- Helen's bit (11:05)

- Matt's bit (37:30)


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