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Gabriel Licina -- researcher and “sometimes biohacker”
Lynne MacTavish -- operations manager at Mankwe Wildlife Reserve
A. Roger Ekirch -- historian at Virginia Tech and author of At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
Ernest Freeberg -- historian at the University of Tennessee and author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
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A. Roger Ekirch -- historian at Virginia Tech and author of At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
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Maria -- Cara Rose de Fabio
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