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DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER, DISCLAIMER!!!

You can’t be everywhere at once!

And while this may be true for you, it is not true for science…

Science is everywhere at once throughout all time…

How is this possible?

Is science a time traveling faster than light super hero,

bending the laws of physics to her will and whimsy?

No.

But if there was a time traveling faster than light super hero,

bending the laws of physics to her will and whimsy…

she’d damn sure be using science to do it…

Science begins with that most human of all human traits, observation…

We watch a thing…

we try to figure it out…

Maybe that thing is another human…

So we watch them…

maybe we watch them try to figure something out…

Maybe that thing we watch them try to figure out is dangerous.

Like the best way to fell a mastodon,

or what poison berries taste like,

or what fire tastes like…

Maybe we watch them try and fail to figure something out…

And in our observing…

We learn something new about the world…

And therefore, science.

And while the observations and potential discoveries are everywhere,

there are some that stand out more than others…

And we’ve got the top eleven from 2016 for This Week in Science…

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Number 11 – Zika