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HOW HUMAN INGENUITY HELPED US LIVE LONGER

How We Learned to Live Longer

Why did humans once die so young?
★ AN OMAHAINDIA ORIGINAL ★

A hundred and fifty years ago, an ordinary cut could kill you. Agastya wants to know what changed — and the answer is never one miracle medicine. He follows each mystery from the body to the disease, the discovery, the invention, the factory and the millions of people it finally reached. Charlie asks how he knows; Warren asks how many people can actually get it.

THE LONGER LIFE

🔬 A strange thing → ❓ a wrong guess → 🧪 an investigation → 💡 an invention → 🏭 a factory → ❤️ millions of lives

The Library

60 episodes in eleven parts. Discovering something and getting it to everyone are completely different problems. · Books 1 and 2 are free.
The 30-Year-Old World cover Book 1 Free
The 30-Year-Old World
The World
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The Invisible Enemy cover Book 2 Free
The Invisible Enemy
Delft
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The Water That Killed cover Book 3
The Water That Killed
London
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The Sewer Revolution cover Book 4
The Sewer Revolution
London
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The Day Germs Became Real cover Book 5
The Day Germs Became Real
Paris and Berlin
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The Breath of Life cover Book 6
The Breath of Life
Paris, 1783
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The White Death cover Book 7
The White Death
Madras, 1956
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The Pneumonia Mystery cover Book 8
The Pneumonia Mystery
London, 1928
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The Antibiotic Miracle cover Book 9
The Antibiotic Miracle
Peoria, 1943
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The Smoking Machine cover Book 10
The Smoking Machine
London, 1951
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The Pump Inside You cover Book 11
The Pump Inside You
Frankfurt, 1628
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The Blocked Pipe cover Book 12
The Blocked Pipe
Zurich, 1977
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The Heart's Electricity cover Book 13
The Heart's Electricity
Leiden, 1903
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The Machine That Shocks cover Book 14
The Machine That Shocks
Cleveland, 1947
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The Artificial Heartbeat cover Book 15
The Artificial Heartbeat
Stockholm, 1958
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The Bypass cover Book 16
The Bypass
Cleveland, 1967
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The Command Centre cover Book 17
The Command Centre
Copenhagen, 1952
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The Brain Without Blood cover Book 18
The Brain Without Blood
London, 1977
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The Electric Brain cover Book 19
The Electric Brain
Jena, 1929
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The Brain Inside the Machine cover Book 20
The Brain Inside the Machine
Wimbledon, 1971
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The Spinal Cord cover Book 21
The Spinal Cord
Stoke Mandeville, 1944
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The Seizure Mystery cover Book 22
The Seizure Mystery
London, 1873
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When the World Goes Dark cover Book 23
When the World Goes Dark
Paris, 1747
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The Lens That Restored Sight cover Book 24
The Lens That Restored Sight
London, 1949
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The Camera Inside the Eye cover Book 25
The Camera Inside the Eye
Boston, 1991
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The Ear That Could Hear Again cover Book 26
The Ear That Could Hear Again
Melbourne, 1978
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The Tiny Bones That Hear cover Book 27
The Tiny Bones That Hear
Budapest, 1928
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The Body's Filters cover Book 28
The Body's Filters
London, 1827
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The Artificial Kidney cover Book 29
The Artificial Kidney
The World
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The Gift of a Kidney cover Book 30
The Gift of a Kidney
The World
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The Chemical Factory cover Book 31
The Chemical Factory
Rochford
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The Liver Under Attack cover Book 32
The Liver Under Attack
The World
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The Stomach Mystery cover Book 33
The Stomach Mystery
Perth
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The Control Room cover Book 34
The Control Room
Toronto
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The Tiny Gland cover Book 35
The Tiny Gland
Bern
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The River Inside You cover Book 36
The River Inside You
Bologna
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The Blood Bank cover Book 37
The Blood Bank
Vienna
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The Factory Inside the Bone cover Book 38
The Factory Inside the Bone
Toronto
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The Body's Armoured Suit cover Book 39
The Body's Armoured Suit
Glasgow
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When Bones Break cover Book 40
When Bones Break
Kurgan
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The Artificial Joint cover Book 41
The Artificial Joint
Wrightington
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The Body's Defence Force cover Book 42
The Body's Defence Force
Messina
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The Disease Humans Defeated cover Book 43
The Disease Humans Defeated
Worldwide
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The Paralysis Enemy cover Book 44
The Paralysis Enemy
Worldwide
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The Mosquito Enemy cover Book 45
The Mosquito Enemy
Rome
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The Mystery Virus cover Book 46
The Mystery Virus
Atlanta
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The Disease With a Thousand Faces cover Book 47
The Disease With a Thousand Faces
Memphis
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The Body That Attacks Itself cover Book 48
The Body That Attacks Itself
London
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The Day We Saw Inside cover Book 49
The Day We Saw Inside
Würzburg
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The Body in Slices cover Book 50
The Body in Slices
Erlangen, 1989
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The Magnetic Body cover Book 51
The Magnetic Body
Aberdeen
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The Camera That Enters the Body cover Book 52
The Camera That Enters the Body
Ann Arbor
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The Robot in the Operating Room cover Book 53
The Robot in the Operating Room
Strasbourg, 2001
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The Intensive-Care Machine cover Book 54
The Intensive-Care Machine
Copenhagen
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The Medicine Factory cover Book 55
The Medicine Factory
Frankfurt, 1909
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The Vaccine Factory cover Book 56
The Vaccine Factory
The World
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The Biotechnology Revolution cover Book 57
The Biotechnology Revolution
San Francisco
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The Gene Machine cover Book 58
The Gene Machine
Cambridge
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The Greatest Medicine Wasn't a Medicine cover Book 59
The Greatest Medicine Wasn't a Medicine
Everywhere
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The Longer Life cover Book 60
The Longer Life
The World
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