Interview w/ Ron Naveen, Water Plumes, Under Pressure, Mini Neanderthal Brains?, Homo Naledi’s Brain, Memory Transfer?, Turtle Sex, Birds Of Pay, Change Your Sheets, Ice Records, Cure The Cold?, And Much More…

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There are many things we humans take for granted…

And often we do this without much thought or introspection.

Like, when’s the last time you raveled anything?

We plot, we plan, we schedule…

never do we ravel.

Raveling of things must take place all the time,

otherwise nothing could ever unravel.

We assume that we exist…

reasonably enough…

Because if we did not exist it would be difficult to consider

how we might be able to pose the question of our own existence to begin with.

And while we wander through life leaving unasked questions everywhere

There is one simple question that can lead us to the end of our assumptions

Why?

Why this and not that?

Why here and not there?

Why did it happen and why did it not?

Why is such a simple looking word,

and yet without it would be difficult to consider how we could have

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Interview with Ron Naveen

Ron Naveen is the founder and president of Oceanites, a US-based, nonprofit science and educational organization, that got its start in 1987. He also began the Antarctic Site Inventory project in 1994, the only nongovernmental, publicly supported, scientific research project working in Antarctica and the only project monitoring penguin population changes across the entirety of ...