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We live in interesting times…

Not that other times weren’t equally as interesting…

But it is a specifically interesting time if you happen to be a human.

For one…

Humans weren’t always around.

So, just being on the planet now is in and of itself an interesting thing.

For another…

Despite all of the interesting times in which there were humans on the planet…

This time is perhaps the most interesting.

Not because humans are in and of them selves more interesting now than in humans past…

But because our access to interesting information is greater than at any other time in human history…

And this,

as it turns out,

means that times are likely to just keep getting more interesting as time goes by.

Making this moment just a little less interesting than the next one to come…

Or in this case,

the moments spent listening to a protracted show intro will be a lot less interesting than…

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An Interview with Dr. Raquel Peixoto

Dr. Peixoto is a visiting assistant professor at UC Davis from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a research associate from the Rio de Janeiro Marine Aquarium (AquaRio) in Brazil. She also coordinates the Beneficial Microorganisms of Marine Organisms (BMMO) Network, which seeks to unify and facilitate studies on the