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Baby Planets!, Here Kitty!, Curious Viruses, Interview w/ Dr. Matthew Stanley on Einstein, Mole Rats Feel No Pain, Science Sponges, Elephant Footprints, Blood Guts And Autism, Lost Tribe Teeth, You Should Run, And Much More…

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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

Most of the things we have invented over the last hundred thousand years of humans on the earth…

Are still with us in some form…

The wheel, the fish hook, the elastic band and touch screens to name just a few…

Fire on the other hand…

is much older than the last hundred thousand years.

It is a technology older than current humans…

by a million years or more…

When a thing is useful,

when knowledge has a benefit…

It is preserved,

handed down.

As if knowledge were a living organism…

Reproducing through teaching, sharing and learning,

the exchange of information,

From one generation to the next.

And, like any living thing…

it can also die.

If we fail to teach…

Or if we fail to learn…

We humans look at the world of today as if it is a permanent place.

It is not.

It will change.

Based on the lessons we have learned and the new discoveries we make…

The world will change for the better.

And it can also change…

by the knowledge we fail to nurture in the next generation…

For the worse.

Like any living thing,

knowledge needs a healthy environment…

Like the one between your ears.

And a something good to munch on…

Like this week in science

Coming up next…

First up, some science news!

Baby Planets!

Mind the gap! Two new exoplanets support the protoplanetary-disk hypothesis of plane...