Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

What we say has meaning even if that meaning is lost on others. When other people speak, it has meaning to us even if it is not what they intended to convey.

Whether our words are chosen wisely or allowed to escape before being carefully thought through, the impact of those words will depend more on who is hearing them than on what we have said. Such is the case even now as I say these words.

For whatever point I intended by saying them in the beginning has already left my ability to control and has been made irrelevant by the fact that you are interpreting what I’m saying and associating meanings that I couldn’t possibly have imagined let alone intended.

Or perhaps you understand exactly what I intended to say and have thought these thoughts to yourself making what I’m saying now just a reminder of your own thoughts which are ultimately what I’m talking about even though I have no idea what those thoughts may be.

And while a thought-filled confusion much like this disclaimer in the following hour of programming do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California Davis, KDVS or its sponsors, one thing should remain perfectly clear. What that one thing is, we will surely not agree upon. So instead, we will drop the subject all together and instead turn our attentions to This Week in Science, coming up next.

Good morning, Kirsten!
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Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

It is written that Socrates had no use for the written word. Newton did all those calculations without the aid of the calculator. Michael Faraday unified electricity and magnetism without computer modeling. Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity long before anyone thought of googling space time.

All these great minds were stripped of the information technology we enjoy today and yet, they managed great feats of informational mental gymnastics. And while comparing the intellect today with that of the past, maybe a bit of downer in light of our huge advantages, the comparison – much like the following hour of our programming – does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of University of California at Davis KDVS, or its sponsors.

Still we can imagine that if through some trick of time, by some outrunning of the laws of physics in some flipped switch of possibility, even greater accomplishments may have been possible if the great minds of history could spend just one hour a week listening to This Week in Science coming up next.

Good morning Kirsten.
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Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

Without the darkness, there can be no light. Without light, there is no energy, no quark. Without the quark, there can be no atom. Without the atom, there would be no matter and no mass, no gravity. Without gravity, there’d be no way to get down with our bad selves.

And while getting quarky within the dark – much like the following hour of our programming does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors – the more you look, the more it becomes clear.

The universe is an intricate, complicated place where even the most basic components are far from intuitive to our human perspective. Without this unintuitive complication, we would not be here. Without science, we wouldn’t know where here is or even where or when here is. And so, we couldn’t be possibly saying, This Week in Science, coming up next.

Good morning, Kirsten!
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Justin: Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

Nature in all its splendorific glory cannot answer the fundamental question asked by mankind, “Why are we here? Why are we here?”

Nature does offer answers of course, we are to eat, to reproduce and to survive for another day. This would be fine if the opposite were not just as true, that we are here to be eaten, to die and to fertilize the soil – The Cycle of Life.

Appealing at first, seemingly unfair later, is perhaps the greatest driving behind all of human knowledge, what we learn of the world, what we teach our children, what we discover in the darkness of the unknown and light the torch of the future generations to blah, blah, blah, see clearly.

Is knowledge part of ourselves that outlives flesh and bone, propels our minds beyond the limitations of nature’s life cycle? And while propelling reproductive questions – much like the following hour programming – does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the University of California at Davis, KDVS or its sponsors.

Think deeply from the fountain of immortality knowing that knowing will connect you not only to the here and now, but to the past and the future as well. For it is knowing that allows us to live in happiness on This Week in Science. Coming up next.

So check it out. I’m going to release this new album.
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