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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Bill Nye

Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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Brain Different Memories
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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Summer Water Bottle Winter
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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Climate Cutting Real
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Dollars Inference Real
For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Life Meaning Strive
There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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Believe Engineering People
The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
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Apples Next Taste
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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Needs Taxpayers Voters
There really is no such thing as race.
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Blue Dot Pale Race Space Vastness
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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Breathing Dangerous Situation Technology
I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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Answers Bang Way
This is in stark contrast to creationism, which offers a static view of the world, one that cannot be challenged or tested with reason. And because it cannot make predictions, it cannot lead to new discoveries, new medicines, or new ways to feed all of us.
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Challenged Creationism Discoveries Static
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Common Dog People Sense
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Meaning Life People Stars
The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.
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Facts Natural World

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

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If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

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