{"id":1618,"date":"2013-01-04T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2022-03-25T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:55:45","slug":"henry-david-and-k-alum-rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/henry-david-and-k-alum-rob\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry David and K Alum Rob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been on a walk with Henry David Thoreau\u2014not literally, of course, but a second reading (or multiple readings) of <em>Walden<\/em> can seem like an attentive wood-or-wetland perambulation with its author. I came across this: \u201cAt the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.\u201d Wait, wait \u2026 that reminds me of another favorite author, science writer and scientist Rob Dunn \u201997, who writes in a recent article (in which Rob\u2019s grandfather makes an indelible impression): \u201cSo much for my New Year\u2019s resolution, though maybe part of the problem is that we still know so little about so many fields that it is nearly impossible to make it to the end of a story without encountering the unknown.\u201d His resolution was to answer the science questions that come up in everyday life. His <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/01\/01\/eleven-ways-to-avoid-answering-a-question-a-year-in-review\/\">\u201cYear in Review\u201d blog article<\/a> (<em>Scientific American<\/em>) kicked off the resolution with 11 questions. But pretty soon the questions were multiplying, not answers. But that\u2019s a good thing that comes in part from Rob\u2019s long lineage of questioners who \u201cwent long\u201d and went broad to go long (Rob\u2019s other resolution is to write shorter articles, but I\u2019m glad that\u2019s unlikely to work, too). It\u2019s no wonder Rob attended K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been on a walk with Henry David Thoreau\u2014not literally, of course, but a second reading (or multiple readings) of Walden can seem like an attentive wood-or-wetland perambulation with its author. 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