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b'Humans have a long history of inventions: electricity, telephones, computers, music \\u2014 the list goes on. It\'s clear we\'re shaping the world around us.

But as Ainissa Ramirez explains in her new book, The Alchemy of Us, those inventions are shaping us, too.

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