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Gal Beckerman — How Newness Enters the World

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Letters of the Republic of Letters

i is really taken by these words of his. A, the brevity of human ife does not allow that one person alone is sufficient. It is necessary to adopt the observations of a good number of others from the past centuries and future ones. And in fact, what they did in that incredibly analogue way, was one of the foundations on which we know how to do what we knowHow to do. They would send each other data. They'd find sometimes artifacts, you know, strange bones theyd discovered, or frascls, and sort of check each other. That's, that's how they did their work.

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