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water or that can grow in water, depending on how the genes are spliced, and that corn can be grown without nitrogen. There's a whole series of things that means that in the next ten to 15 years we can feed the world much better than it's ever been fed before. Isn't that fantastic?

Q:

Well, it is, yes.

Lasker:

And it means that in the field of bio-mass, any kind of protein mass can be made into some form of energy. From alcohol you can drive a car, as you know. So while what I'm saying is extremely simplistic, a really good take-out description that I think you and I would be able to understand is going to be in the current Scientific American, and I begged Mrs. Mason to look at it, too.

Q:

Is this a group of authors?

Lasker:

Yes. They've been advertising it for about six months, and it means that they've decided that they're going to do something that everybody is interested in science like us can understand it as well as the scientists. Most things now are so scientific and so specialized that only people in the field understand it.

Q:

I shall have a copy.





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