A Commitment to Curiosity.
We're taking a break from our regular content this week to share this message with you. It's more important than ever to remind ourselves who we are, and what good we can do for our planet,...
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I’m going to share two stories with you today about how I learn about our world. One has to do with how I approach learning about the natural world, and the other has to do with challenging personal biases. Last week, for the first time in my life, I saw a Virginia opossum alive; before, I’d only ever seen them dead on the side of the road, and in our museum preparation lab. They don’t live in the places I grew up in South Dakota, and Montana. But my boyfriend had been seeing one around our house. Every time he spotted it, he’d come inside and say “it’s on the porch” I’d excitedly run outside, only to see nothing. But then last week! Coming home, I saw the opossum. It was emerging from a hole it had chewed in a pumpkin on my front porch. T...
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I’m going to share two stories with you today about how I learn about our world. One has to do with how I approach learning about the natural world, and the other has to do with challenging personal biases. Last week, for the first time in my life, I saw a Virginia opossum alive; before, I’d only ever seen them dead on the side of the road, and in our museum preparation lab. They don’t live in the places I grew up in South Dakota, and Montana. But my boyfriend had been seeing one around our house. Every time he spotted it, he’d come inside and say “it’s on the porch” I’d excitedly run outside, only to see nothing. But then last week! Coming home, I saw the opossum. It was emerging from a hole it had chewed in a pumpkin on my front porch. T...
