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We bring together cutting-edge science and the most creative minds in the industry

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On this episode...

Before the railroads, traveling 60 miles was a huge distance.

Also, people kept time by the position of the sun.

So if you were to travel 13 miles east or west,

you would actually have to change your watch by a minute.

We lived in these small pockets separated by distance and also by time.

That's Anisa Ramirez. She's a material scientist with a doctorate from Stanford and a science writer.

And she's the author of the 2020 book, The Alchemy of Us, How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another.

The book has recently been named one of Smithsonian Magazine's 10 Best Science Books of 2020.

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