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are born with a curious nature. It stems from our need to understand our world. The fear of the other is a drive that runs
counter to our curious nature. To be
curious is to understand the so called other, which often eliminates this fear. One wonders why certain people want us to
ignore our innate curiosity of different people, lifestyles, cultures, and
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biggest whales first evolved somewhere unexpected</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://theconversation.com/19-million-year-old-fossil-jaw-bone-hints-the-biggest-whales-first-evolved-somewhere-unexpected-219961#:~:text=Roughly%2019%20million%20years%20old,Royal%20Society%20B%3A%20Biological%20Sciences" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://theconversation.com/19-million-year-old-fossil-jaw-bone-hints-the-biggest-whales-first-evolved-somewhere-unexpected-219961#:~:text=Roughly%2019%20million%20years%20old,Royal%20Society%20B%3A%20Biological%20Sciences</span></a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thirteen Discoveries Made About Human
Evolution in 2023</span></p>
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Neanderthals?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Migration of Ancient Indigenous People in
South America is a Complex Tale</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lost ancient colony off coast of Australia
that hundreds of thousands once called home discovered</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dinosaur
finger bone from Lesotho rock shelter suggests Africans discovered fossils
centuries before British did</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">What
killed the 'real King Kong'? Scientists say they now know the answer to an
ancient mystery</span></p>
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dinosaur discovery may be the closest relative to Tyrannosaurus rex, scientists
say</span></p>
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prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental?</span></p>
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uncovers potential origins of life in ancient hot springs</span></p>
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much life has ever existed on Earth?</span></p>
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blocks most of an Iowa law banning some school library books and discussion of
LGBTQ+ issues</span></p>
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on Christmas Eve</span></p>
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belt buckle of 'dragon' eating frog discovered in Czech Republic may be from
unknown pagan cult</span></p>
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the Past Faster Than Ever Before</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest
runestone’</span></p>
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discovery in Italy</span></p>
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for the past: the Ukrainians trying to save their archaeological treasure amid
war</span></p>
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ancient lost city found in the Amazon</span></p>
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gold buckles depicting ruler 'majestically sitting on a throne' discovered in
Kazakhstan</span></p>
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early medieval carving of naked bald man with club is probably Hercules, new
study suggests</span></p>
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Neolithic Vessel Excavated in Central China</span></p>
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ceramics for extreme environments</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">World's
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Scientists
show how shallow learning mechanism used by the brain can compete with deep
learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-scientists-shallow-mechanism-brain-deep.html?fbclid=IwAR22kgZUZYikJHsFtisQy0Qjf9euQM_6RJnJvLBilSptotNqPmu0bhrgfdU" style="color:blue">https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-scientists-shallow-mechanism-brain-deep.html?fbclid=IwAR22kgZUZYikJHsFtisQy0Qjf9euQM_6RJnJvLBilSptotNqPmu0bhrgfdU</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Catalytic
combo converts CO2 to solid carbon nanofibers</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">US
military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last
years</span></p>
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the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space
missions are slated for launch in 2024</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Take
a look at these astonishing new images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io</span></p>
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to Earth are torn apart by its gravity</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mysterious fast radio bursts in space keep getting
stranger</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A method to straighten curved space-time</span></p>
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delays for NASA’s astronaut moonshots, with crew landing off until 2026</span></p>
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leak forces U.S. company to abandon moon landing attempt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/01/08/1223424903/first-u-s-lunar-lander-in-more-than-50-years-rockets-toward-the-moon" style="color:blue">https://www.npr.org/2024/01/08/1223424903/first-u-s-lunar-lander-in-more-than-50-years-rockets-toward-the-moon</a></span></p>
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Nation objects to a plan to send human remains to the moon</span></p>
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black holes’ might be neither ‘rogue’ nor ‘black holes’</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Astronomers
find spark of star birth across billions of years</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-01-astronomers-star-birth-billions-years.html" style="color:blue">https://phys.org/news/2024-01-astronomers-star-birth-billions-years.html</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">New
paper explores four nearby fast radio burst sources</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Role of Science and Technology in
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">TED Talk, A mysterious design that appears
across millennia</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">My
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Autonomous
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Orbital Case Study</span></p>
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weathering the storm”: rethinking climate resilience</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://council.science/current/blog/beyond-weathering-the-storm-rethinking-climate-resilience/" style="color:blue">https://council.science/current/blog/beyond-weathering-the-storm-rethinking-climate-resilience/</a></span></p>
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Affairs Invests $1.5 Million in Bison Herd Expansion and Ecosystem Restoration</span></p>
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Seeks Public Comment on Draft Environmental Analysis of Central Atlantic
Offshore Wind Energy Areas</span></p>
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scope of Indus inscriptions comprising taxation, trade and craft licensing,
commodity control and access control: archaeological and script-internal
evidence</span></p>
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