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Using Bacteria to Dye Jeans
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Tammy Hsu and Michelle Zhu are the cofounders of Huue.  Their problem is this: how do you get bacteria to produce indigo dye? And how do you do it cheaply and ...

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The Quest for the Factory-Built House
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Today’s show is about a problem people have been trying to solve for a hundred years: how can we mass produce houses, like we do cars? Listen for a house ...

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Building Houses Like Tesla Builds Cars
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Alexis Rivas is the co-founder and CEO of Cover. His problem is: How do you build houses in a factory, the way you build cars? And how do you do it so ...

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Human Bones, Made In the Lab
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Nina Tandon is the co-founder and CEO of a tissue engineering company called EpiBone. Her problem is this: How do you grow custom bone from patients’ ...

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Tiny Chips, Giant Stakes
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Microchips are the most important driver of technological progress in the modern world, and governments are fighting over who gets to make them. Right now, ...

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Problems Solved: Drones, Bananas and Real Estate*
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It’s our first anniversary and—almost 50 episodes in—Jacob Goldstein checks in with three past guests. Drone delivery guy Keenan Wyrobek thinks he has ...

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Faster, Cheaper Drugs with AI
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Alice Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Alice’s problem is this: How do you use artificial intelligence to drive down the price of ...

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Creating the Uncrashable Car
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When Austin Russell was 17 years old, he founded Luminar Technologies to work on a remote sensing technology called Lidar.  Today, Austin is one of the ...

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The Electric Truck that Went Viral on TikTok
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Chace Barber is the co-founder of Edison Motors. Chace’s problem is this: How do you build electric logging trucks in rural Canada, with money you raised ...

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Introducing Other People’s Pockets: Mistress Marley, Financial Dominatrix
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Here’s a bonus episode of a new show from Pushkin, Other People’s Pockets. Have you ever wondered how your friend bought that vacation home or why ...

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