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100			_a Bronson, Po & Gupta, Arvind
245			_aDecoding the world : _b How the genetic era will change the world _cBy Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta.
250			_a1st Ed.
260			_a London : _bWildfire, _c 2020.
300			_ai-xvii+327p.
505			_aFirst Corono virus Death in U.S. and new cases detected as testing expends Worlds Supermarket Returns as Epidemic Eases in China Silicon Valley's New Obsession 33.48 Tons of dead fish collected in Pinellas county as red tide bloom lingers Tide Bloom Lingers ABC ACTION NEWS Mail Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack The Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees Is Still What Colors Are This Dress? BUZZFEED 10 James Bond Villians, Ranked by How Evil Their Plans were What are the 10most watched food TV Shows? Meet the Mafias Making Buckets of Cash from Illegal Sand What's your Purpose? Finding a sense of meaning in life is linked to health Meet the Pope's astronomer, who says He'd Baptize and Alien If given the chance There is an absolutely Gigantic Rouge Planet wandering our galactic Neighborhood
520			_aIn Decoding the World, Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta-two renegade venture capitalists from Silicon Valley-take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their twisted and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapter is prefaced with a real-world headline ripped from today's chaotic news cycle: Trump's trade war. Dying bees. Rogue planets. Beyond Meat. Glaciers melting. Bronson and Gupta then decipher what's really going on behind these headlines, and why. What they offer is first-hand experience in funding technologies to solve these problems, most of which involve genetic engineering. But what the authors then do with that premise is always surprising and unexpected. In one paragraph they are ripping it down to the bare bones physics or chemistry, and in the very next paragraph invoking history, philosophy, or psychology-while using literary devices borrowed from the surrealists, along with storylines from popular movies. The narrative holds a tightrope suspense, as we wonder what they'll do next, or what brazen thing they'll say. Decoding the World is the kind of book you get when you give two guys $40 million, a world full of messy big problems, a genetics laboratory to play in, and a set of Borges' collected works. After looking through their lens, you'll never see the world the same
650			_aGenetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
942			_cBK
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