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Life in a Barrel

Radiolab

CHAPTER

The Orderliness of the Earth

i was seeing nick's explanation as yet another loss. To me, it sounds like maybe at the very beginning of life there was an orderliness built right on top of the orderliness of the planet itself. You know, he's pointing out that our beginning, even our scientific beginning, isn't as clean of a story as we thought. There was no lightning strike, no clear moment where it all began,. Just this slow and like, bad breath out of avent, churning, clumsy mix of chemicals in a dark, dank pit.

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