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There are things that we know…

And there are things we do not know.

We can,

for a moment,

condense the world into these two categories.

Knowledge and the lack of it.

But as we drill down,

the picture can become murky.

Of the things we do not know,

there are things we know we do not know.

We often refer to this as the unknown.

Like a mechanism for gravity,

or what existed before the big bang,

or where all of our missing socks have gone…

There is another category of unknowns that are far more irksome.

Unknowns that we think we know.

Things that we think we know,

but actually know nothing,

or at least have noticeably wrong.

And what makes this most irksome is that most of human knowledge

may actually fall into this category.

And while most of humanity gets by relying on a knowing

about things that they do not actually know about…

We will endeavor to keep you as much in the know

of newly known things as your noodle can navigate.

For nothing makes us more knowledgeable as a species…