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Interview w/ Ron Naveen, Water Plumes, Under Pressure, Mini Neanderthal Brains?, Homo Naledi’s Brain, Memory Transfer?, Turtle Sex, Birds Of Pay, Change Your Sheets, Ice Records, Cure The Cold?, And Much More…
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There are many things we humans take for granted…
And often we do this without much thought or introspection.
Like, when’s the last time you raveled anything?
We plot, we plan, we schedule…
never do we ravel.
Raveling of things must take place all the time,
otherwise nothing could ever unravel.
We assume that we exist…
reasonably enough…
Because if we did not exist it would be difficult to consider
how we might be able to pose the question of our own existence to begin with.
And while we wander through life leaving unasked questions everywhere
There is one simple question that can lead us to the end of our assumptions
Why?
Why this and not that?
Why here and not there?
Why did it happen and why did it not?
Why is such a simple looking word,
and yet without it would be difficult to consider how we could have
This Week In Science,
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Interview with Ron Naveen
Ron Naveen is the founder and president of Oceanites, a US-based, nonprofit science and educational organization, that got its start in 1987. He also began the Antarctic Site Inventory project in 1994, the only nongovernmental, publicly supported, scientific research project working in Antarctica and the only project monitoring penguin population changes across the entirety of the Antarctic Peninsula. He is a professional penguin counter.
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Water Plumes
Old data tells new tales on Europa.
Under Pressure
Protons pressure at their core is higher than neutron stars.
Mini Neanderthal Brains?
Svante Paabo wants to grow brain organoids containing neanderthal DNA to see how they grow compared to human mini-brains.
Homo naledi’s brain
Might have been very human-like.
Memories can be transferred between organisms
Maybe…
Sex determination in turtles gets a clue
But strangely leaves more questions than it answers…
You want jobs?? Hire some kestrels!
Tiny birds of prey could save the economy. Or, at least, the sweet-fruit economy of the midwest… But that’s something!
Cure The Cold?
Researchers may have created a compound that combats rhinovirus.
Have you changed your sheets lately?
Whether you have or not, a chimp’s bed is likely to be cleaner than yours…
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