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Hope Jahren
American
Scientist
Born:
Sep 27
,
1969
Me
People
Science
Think
Women
You
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I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.
Hope Jahren
Time
Writing
Other
Spend
Talking
Scientists
Lot
I grew up in a small town.
Hope Jahren
Small
Small Town
Town
Up
Grew
The turkey oak can grow practically submerged within the wetlands of Mississippi, its leaves soft as a newborn's skin.
Hope Jahren
Skin
Oak
Mississippi
Practically
Within
Leaves
Submerged
Newborn
Turkey
Grow
Soft
Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.
Hope Jahren
You
Made
Looking
Meal
Teeth
Say
Those
Ate
Tells
Component
Composition
About
Something
Had
How
Years
Lot
Diet
Just
Meals
Us
Across
Your
Researchers
Large
Many
Lived
Last
Bones
Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.
Hope Jahren
Corn
Calling
Occupies
Been
Role
American
Really
Special
My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.
Hope Jahren
Memories
Happy
Wonderful
Way
Smelled
Looked
Toys
Felt
Lab
Just
Cement
Being
Where
Place
Warm
Full
Earliest
Earliest Memories
The wood of any tree growing anywhere records fairly faithfully the oxygen and hydrogen chemistry of the water the plant has access to through precipitation.
Hope Jahren
Water
Plant
Chemistry
Tree
Hydrogen
Records
Through
Fairly
Access
Faithfully
Any
Wood
Oxygen
Anywhere
Growing
Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun.
Hope Jahren
Will
Sun
Rock
Climate
Still
Regardless
Humans
The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.
Hope Jahren
Time
World
Worth
Down
Every
Tree
Every Time
Bit
Easier
Than
Breaks
Little
Little Bit
Cut
Much
Grow
Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.
Hope Jahren
Failure
You
Business
Science
Joy
Thrive
Increment
Incremental
Able
Small
Steps
Days
Order
Breakthroughs
Much
Really
Full
Forward
Setbacks
Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.
Hope Jahren
Women
Men
Men And Women
Our
Study
Because
Cultural
Conditioning
Product
Differently
Things
Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.
Hope Jahren
Science
Women
Seen
Other
Say
Out
Study
Know
Couple
How
Doing
Decades
Controversial
Order
Figure
Connected
Things
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