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Interview w/ Dr. Richelle Tanner, Sleep Mutations, Fingerprint Earth, Toxoplasma Gondii Genes, Plane Noisy, Crows Like Puzzles!, Strict Fasting, Carbon Chips, How Hot Now?, Vacation Routines, And Much More…

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It started a long, long time ago

In a galaxy much closer than you might think

The one you are on the outskirts of in fact

Was it a spark?

A muddy blob at the bottom of an ocean?

A simple interaction of the right combination of chemicals?

However it began, life has come a long way since then.

With domains and kingdoms

Phylums and classes

Families and genuses

Species of all sorts…

Life diversified in a brilliantly mind blowing explosion of possibilities

So much so, so abundantly so…

That it may be easy to forget that it is truly unique

compared to what we have so far been able to see of the rest of the universe.

And out of all those possibilities

Out of all the seemingly endless diversity of living things on earth

You happen to be one of them

A human living thing at that!

Sentient and self aware with a keen brain and modest ability to communicate

And of all the places you could have been in this amazing world

You chose to be here

And we are so happy you are because you are

In for another episode of

This week in Science.

Coming up next…

First up, an interview with Dr. Richelle Tanner!

Dr. Tanner is a climate ecophysiologist at Washington State University. She also communicates about science and climate change, and is a member of the governing council of the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation, or NNNOCI.