The race to build a super battery, Broad City's musical mind and Girl Scouts' origin story

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Author Steve LeVine tells us about the motley crew of scientists on a quest to build a world-changing super battery. Get to know Hot Sugar, the musical maverick from Comedy Central's Broad City. And hear the origin story of Girl Scouts.

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0:27.4	We would clean up the air and the scientists would run out the door
0:32.0	to the bench, jazzed about how they were going to
0:34.9	change the world. Author Steve Levine tells us about the ragtag bunch of
0:38.5	scientists who are racing to invent a super battery that will change the world.
0:41.8	And then we get to know the woman who started the Girl Scouts.
0:45.0	Oh gee girl Scout?
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1:02.0	Steve Levine writes about energy and energy markets for courts, this national publication,
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