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Smart Reads: Curt Stager’s ‘Your Atomic Self’
You are made of stardust—but how do the elements in that stardust become molded into such a specific shape? In his new book, Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe, ecologist Curt Stager traces the fascinating paths of all the different kinds of elements in our bodies as they enter and exit us. We got a chance to talk with Stager recently about, among other things, how we can truly be individuals if we’re just an assortment of ever-shifting combinations of atoms:
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