And no, I'm not talking about my position as a halfway-to-graduation college student, although that is a reasonable assumption. I'm referring to this:
www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html
Pardon my French, but how the hell do 125,000 gorillas go unnoticed?? In a world where man has claimed to go everywhere, that's a pretty big notch on zoologists' collective bedpost. I know we're still discovering microorganisms, and life in the oceans...but mainland Africa?
Or this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25350389/
An undiscovered tribe of people...mind-blowing. Both of these examples make me feel a lot better about my own shortcomings. People who are paid to research have missed huge segments of the world as they thought they knew it. I, on the other hand, am paying to realize that there are huge things I don't know about my profession. When put that way, it doesn't sound as comforting, but whatever.
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