Post Aym7S2R4Uv9MvtLPnM by rebeccawb@discuss.systems
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 (DIR) Post #Aym7S2R4Uv9MvtLPnM by rebeccawb@discuss.systems
       2025-10-01T19:18:26Z
       
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       Jane Goodall has died. She was an inspiration and a role model for many of us interested in science, research and investigation of our world. https://wapo.st/3WmnTUU
       
 (DIR) Post #Aym7U9O5cbbR4ZxNpo by ricci@discuss.systems
       2025-10-01T19:38:50Z
       
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       @rebeccawb I went to an exhibit about her life and work, what a fantastic person
       
 (DIR) Post #Aym8Scbs6RDX4yEpJA by csgordon@discuss.systems
       2025-10-01T19:49:44Z
       
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       @ricci @rebeccawb when I was a kid (literally in elementary school) she came and did a book signing in my home town, after a presentation about some of her work.It ended up being one of the real stand-out memories from my childhood. I liked science in school, but it was all very abstract, and if anyone was mentioned in science class at that point they'd been dead for at least a century. But here was this real live scientist! Doing new science! And cool science! (which I was also able to understand!)It made science feel real to me in a way that I don't think it would have seemed without that encounter, growing up in a town where seemingly most of the highly educated people worked in finance.  (The book she signed is still in my mom's basement somewhere.)