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Oct 20Liked by Melanie Newfield

As well as "making golf course grasses resistant to herbicide in order to produce a better green" it increases sales of said herbicide. Not a good use of gene technology, in my opinion.

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Exactly. It's just about the worst example I'm aware of in this particular area, although I'm sure I'll come across more.

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This was a very thorough overview. I was especially amazed by the sheer number of footnotes to your prior writings. I still have a lot of catching up to do. For those interested in the topic I thought the Walter Isaacson biography of Jennifer Doudna (The Code Breaker) to be excellent. I have read many of his biographies and always walk away having learned something and his shared insights into what the outliers amongst us can deliver to the world. I find his approach to biography to be striking and found Doudna to be an outlier amongst people who have changed the world. She does not seem to be attracted to fame, fortune, and narcissism as seems to be a common downfall. I would imagine if people read his profiles of Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, they might reach for the vomit bag as these are simply very broken humans.

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