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The improbability of Bernie Madoff’s $18 billion dollar ponzi scheme is a lesson for origins of life researchers.

Science is about what’s unknown. It requires pushing the boundaries. Sometimes scientists are deeply wrong. They crash and burn. But that’s the cost, of actually reaching the stars.

In focusing just on the stars, we miss the great gift celestial darkness holds. This year is the 400th anniversary of the realization that the winter solstice is the best night for connecting with our cosmic origins in the Big Bang.

I coined the term Stardust Revolution because I believe we’re in the midst of the third in a five-century long series of scientific revolutions that have shaped our understanding of our origins and relationship with the cosmos.

Jacob’s touring  New Brunswick, Canada in May 2011 as part of the Hackamatack awards.