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The wonderful thing about the world we are living on…

if you haven’t noticed by now

Is that it is covered with living things…

So many planets in our solar system without life…

So much of the universe apparently uninhabitable…

And yet this one planet…

This one we live on…

Life is abundant.

It is everywhere we have looked…

And it should come as no surprise that with all this teaming, resplendent, abundance…

We would want to learn everything we can about it

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Scientist Doodles

One in three kids now draws a woman when asked to draw a scientist compared to nearly 100% male depictions in the 60’s.

Rogue Star

Simulations of the movements of objects in the solar system suggest that about 70,000 years ago Scholz´s star perturbed their Oort cloud orbits and set them on different paths through the solar system.

New Neander News

The five new genomes will help in reconstruction of Neandertal population histories.

A Dab of Denisovan

Twice over even!