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Humans.

Since the dawn of time…

Wait…

humans haven’t been around since the dawn of time

Since the dawn of somewhat recent events maybe…

Science has been humanities greatest accomplishment…

There have been a few other accomplishments along the way…

But really too few to mention…

Mostly having to do with figuring out what is and isn’t edible,

trial and error type things.

Without science we would know nothing reliable about the past…

We would know precious little about the present…

And the future would reliably include cycles of famine, war and pestilence…

Worse still, dishes and laundry would all be done by hand.

And long distance communication would require a lot of walking…

While humans continue to build upon the best thing they ever came up with

We continue to report upon their progress

In the hope that through better understanding of the greatest accomplishments

We can understand where humanity has been

And where it is headed.

And while not all humanity seems headed in the same direction…

You are certainly headed for a bright future as you walked into another episode of

This Week in Science…

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