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Spark of Science: Jon Beckmann

henever you face a challenge and you’re trying to solve a problem,” says conservation ecologist Jon Beckmann, “it always helps to take a different perspective than your own.” We’ve all heard that advice before. Just this week in his’s Atticus Finch: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

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