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	Podcast:		Future Tense - Full program podcast
	Episode:		19th Century virality, post-natural history and DIY medical tech
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:59
	Publish Date:		2014-02-15 18:30:00
	Description:		The idea of photos, messages and text going viral is a very modern one indeed. Or is it? NorthEastern University’s Ryan Cordell has been digging around in old American newspapers and he reckons the 1800s were alive with viral media. We also meet the man behind the Centre for PostNatural History, a museum that showcases and documents the world’s bioengineered organisms. And we enter MIT's Little Devices Lab to find out how DIY medical technologies are being used to help improve people's lives in the developing world.
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