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When scientific knowledge dies with its keeper

My mentor died last month and I realized I never asked him about half the things he discovered and now that knowledge is just gone forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The irretrievable nature of unshared wisdom creates a specific form of grief.

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