“The Planet Is Literally Becoming A Single Place Rather Than One We Can Reasonably Carve Into Territories”

Dr. Jonas Salk, not his cousin, appears on James Day’s talk show in 1974. He looked like Larry David at this point in his life, which is pretttty, pretttty good. Salk was a cerebral guy not really cut out for the great mainstream attention he received in the 1950s after his polio vaccine proved successful. It’s difficult to overestimate how much his discovery changed the world.

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