January 28, 2012

SandBox Comments: Durango Telegraph "Southern exposure"

This is a fascinating look at what life is like.  Living in Antartica.  From Shawna Bethell.  Way over and all the way up on the Durango Telegraph.

"...Though he attends the weekly science lectures offered at the station, Jackson says he doesn’t always understand the complexities of projects, but the sense of exploring remains with him.

“Humans have always been ‘wonderers,’” he said. “One of our distant ancestors looked up into the night sky and wondered what the stars were, and he probably walked up the nearest ridge to get a closer look. He may not have found the answer then, but what he saw over the ridge may have lead to another discovery.
“It’s the fact that we are looking, maybe finding that next thing to help human kind,” Jackson said. “That’s what science is about.”
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