American - Scientist | September 27, 1969 -
Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.
Hope Jahren
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Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.
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My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.
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I'm interested in how the bare bones of the planet, things that aren't alive, are transformed into things that are alive.
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For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months.
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My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers.
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Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun.
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The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.
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I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.
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I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.
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I grew up in a time when there were very few women in the physical sciences. And people started to ask me, 'How did you decide to become a scientist?' And I couldn't really answer. I always knew I'd grow up to have a lab because my dad had one.
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I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.
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