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Arts & Culture

"Failure Factor" (July 19, 2020)

Lakeshore Public Media | By Ryan Priest

Published July 19, 2020 at 12:48 PM CDT

Everything has a breaking point. In this program from July 19, 1967; Shep examines at what point machines and groups of humans fail.

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