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This guy is officially the first-ever 60 Seconds interviewee who happened to be carrying a cooler full of dirt that he gathered in Kenya into the BART station. He was taking it to Berkeley to have it tested for charcoal levels, he said. He’s studying how charcoal levels in dirt affect subsistence farming.
Hear that? You’ve got some interesting neighbors, Mission.
H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.
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