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Every kid can afford a microscope. Here's how.

Manu Prakash has always loved science, but as a child in India, couldn't afford the traditional tools that would have empowered him to explore his passion. Now he's making sure children all around the world don't go without, by inventing and distributing low-cost, low-tech tools that are accessible to everyone. Prakash gives his Brief but Spectacular take on frugal science.

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