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Scientific Ingenuity from the American Garage

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Forget garage bands. It’s all about garage science. DIY tinkerers working on shoe-string budgets are producing some mind-blowing advancements:  think mud-generated power and home-made lightening. Indie-science isn’t just about impressing us, though we are impressed. Serious work like finding a cure for cancer is also happening in basements across America.  

Judy Dutton wrote about the topic for Mental Floss magazine. She joins us with more about the latest in garage science.

 

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