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Interview w/ Drs. Konstantin Batygin & Mike Brown About Planet 9, Thank The Clouds, CO2 Into Coal?, CBD From Yeast, Repellent Stripes, BIRDS ARE SMART, “Flying Bulldog” Rediscovered, Sweet And Sour, Abundant Life, And Much More…

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Say you want to say something that sums up everything that is known about a subject…

The easier a time you have doing so the less we likely understand about the thing you are summing up…

In fact there are few things worth thinking about that can be summed up succinctly.

There are just too many things we do not understand well enough

to say anything meaningful about them without leading us to more questions.

Which is fine…

it’s the way it has always been.

It is a big wonder filled world out there…

But there comes a time from time to time when humans attempt make demands of the universe…

To tell a story that sums it all up,

a text shall we say,

that summarizes the universe into chapters and verse…

As if to say…

Everything that is not understood by this time tomorrow…

does not exist!

This occasional human tendency to end the pursuit of knowledge

has come and gone and lingered lavishly throughout history…

But there is one place where the pursuit of new knowledge never rests…

Where wondering humans are never satisfactorily silenced by answers…

A place where the next question and not the last conclusion gets pulses pounding…

And that place is right here on

This Week in Science

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