Lightbulbs Strike Back

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Lightbulbs Strike Back

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Encore episode. Humans have a long history of inventions that shape the world around us: electricity, telephones, computers, music — the list goes on. But as Ainissa Ramirez explains in her new book, The Alchemy of Us, those inventions are shaping us, too.Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.

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Jul 10, 2020

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