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Alan & Beth Hiking the Inca Trail Videos

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Here are the links to some YouTube videos I posted from our trip to Peru. They were shot with a GoPro Silver 4 and edited down to about 20 minutes each. There are broken down by days on the trail and there is an extra one from out days in the Ica desert. Inca Trail Day 1 Inca Trail Day 2 Inca Trail Day 3 3 days in the desert with Penny Cabrera

Google University Graduates

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For many years I like many other scientists have had to deal with the newly minted Google graduates. Don't get me wrong, the massive amounts of data that is available now at the touch of a button is nothing less that astounding. Google can be a powerful tool much like PubMed when searching for scientific articles but there is a drawback....just because someone publishes it (book,journal,lecture,blog post,twitter) doesnt make it true. We all still suffer somewhat with our early educational training in school where what we read and were told was known to be true. Now when you read something there is still that default position that "it must be true" as opposed to being a healthy skeptic and asking " can that be true". This leads me into the current internet/and public media battle over "The Food Babe" and her campaign against "Toxins".  Dont get me wrong here....I'm a firm believer that as a society we are eating the wrong stuff. We now co