"As the bee plays a vital role in pollination, its extinction would severely disrupt the food chain."

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If I have children one day,
I'll incorporate philosophy (and ideas abt religion too), literature (and not be bored by classics like me - living vicariously) and all areas of knowledge (preferably many languages too) into the process of bringing up these children.
Of course, I'll force all that on myself just to be fair.

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The working explanation, though by no means the definitive one, is that everything we know -- the whole cosmic fabric ranging from your coffee cup to the sun to entire clusters of galaxies -- is only about 1 percent of what's actually out there. Another 3 percent or so is hot interstellar gas we can see because it radiates X-rays and radio waves. Then things start getting weird. An invisible substance called dark matter, possibly phenomena such as giant black holes and unseen particles, is thought to compose 22 percent of the cosmos. Everything else, almost three-quarters of the total, is dark energy, a force that is apparently driving the universe apart.

The reaction among cosmologists was something like Keanu Reeves's in "The Matrix": Whoa!

"Your whole life as an astronomer, you learn that the universe is expanding, but it should be slowing down," said Tod R. Lauer, an associate astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory who is investigating dark energy. "But we find out it's speeding up. That's the most incredible shock we've had in cosmology in the last 40 years."

- washington post