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Jan 2024
32m 9s

Doing the bees’ work with Thai Sade of B...

Guy Raz | Wondery
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Thai Sade is the co-founder and CEO of BloomX, a company that has developed crop-pollinating technology to replicate natural pollinators like bees and other insects.  So much of what we eat depends on bees, which have been used for centuries to pollinate crops. But today, the world’s growing appetite and other environmental stressors are pushing bee populat ... Show More
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