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Human-Monkey Chimeras, Tardigrades on the Moon, Police Violence, Old Dark Matter, Starfish Love Guts, Blind Caterpillars, What the IF?, And Much More…

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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

The following disclaimer has been interrupted

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to bring you this important message on behalf of humans everywhere…

Enough with the gun violence.

Enough with weapons meant for war in the hands of troubled men and boys…

Enough with empty thoughts and insincere prayers.

And enough with the rhetoric of hateful speech.

Enough of racism.

There is nothing uniquely American about racism…

It’s something ignorant people have in common with other ignorant people all over the world…

Racism is not an American idea…

it is the opposite of our ideals

Racism fed and clothed this country

Through centuries of a slave economy

Racism gained us this great land

By the ethnic slaughter and genocide of its native peoples

Racism built this country

Through the waves of immigrants who worked harder for less in order to be Americans.

And while the ideals of freedom and equality have for most of our history

seemed hypocritical to our actions as a nation…

It is because they were ideals deemed so noble…

more noble than the men who wrote them…

And more noble than the nation born from it…

That the ideals of equality and freedom were written into our foundation…

Our idealism as a nation has eventually led us to become the most ethnically diverse nation on the earth.

And there is nowhere else I would rather be than right here,

On this week in science,

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First up, the BIG science news stories of the week!