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Lots of people have knowledge and information, but so few have wisdom. Some people have very little knowledge or information but for some reason seem to have wisdom anyway.

The classic example of the first type is the academic who is filled to bursting with knowledge, but is a failure at human relationships. The classic example of the second type is the granny rocking on the front porch, who never finished school, but who is someone you love to visit because she somehow always says the very thing you needed to know.
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UPDATE – Just in time to create really BIG fireworks for the 4th of July, an asteroid that may be a half-mile in diameter wide is coming our way. Astronomers assure us there is no danger of impact, but it will make an unusually close pass on that day. We’ve had other near misses lately.

Joe Rao writes in space.com that when this asteroid was first discovered, there were fears that it might hit the earth sometime in this century, so scientists have been monitoring it carefully in case they felt they had to try out some of their new techniques to destroy it or deflect it.

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Bees use visual cues to find flowers with nectar and do a “bee dance” back at the hive to tell the others where to find them too. Once ants find a good source of food, they also return to the nest to tell others about it, but scientists have always wondered how ants, who often navigate in the dark, are able to find their way back home from their food hunting expeditions. It turns out they count their steps.
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We’ve written in the past about how the pole shift, which is going on right now, is confusing migratory birds. Now we’ve discovered that global warming is confusing them too, by causing them to take off for their winter destinations too soon.

Bjorn Carey writes in LiveScience.com that spring is arriving earlier. Another problem is that this causes fruit to ripen and insects to appear earlier as well, which means they die earlier too, forcing newly-hatched chicks to go hungry when their parents can’t find enough food for them.
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