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| 0:00.0 | Your listening to to Radio Lab from NPR and WNYC. |
| 0:10.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. |
| 0:19.0 | June 26, 2000, 1019 a.m. at the White House. |
| 0:24.6 | This is the moment that race died. |
| 0:28.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:31.6 | We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome, of the entire human genome. |
| 0:41.5 | See, for 100 years, scientists, or at least a certain group of scientists, had been trying to |
| 0:45.8 | prove that race is real. It is not just something that we see with our eyes, but in fact, |
| 0:50.5 | there is something fundamentally different between a person who is white and a person who is black. |
| 0:56.1 | Or Asian. |
| 0:56.7 | And they looked at blood differences. |
| 0:58.6 | Nothing. |
| 0:59.0 | They looked at differences in musculature. |
| 1:01.1 | The size of our heads? |
| 1:02.5 | Nothing. |
| 1:02.9 | They couldn't really say this is this and that is that. |
| 1:06.5 | Then, in 2000. |
| 1:08.9 | It is my great pleasure. |
| 1:10.5 | Bill Clinton introduces two of the most important scientists in the world. |
| 1:13.4 | Dr. Francis Collins and Craig Venter. |
| 1:16.1 | Both of whom get up to the podium and say, look, we have searched all the way down to our DNA. |
| 1:21.0 | Can't get any deeper than that. |
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