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Sep 2024
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398: Organic Plastic

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When do I stop using a bar of soap? What’s the current state of the first plastics ever made?  How do you best judge peoples’ character when dating?  What’s going on with bacteria in my math problem?  How do authors get health insurance?  Hank and John Green have answers!

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