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and this is something we like to ask all of our interviewees because it's always interesting to us and to our listeners to hear how everybody started in the hobby. So tell us a little bit about how you first started out with aquarium. That's a great question. It was as a child, I must have been 8 or 10, my mom had a fish pond. I started keeping Livebearers, I think I started out maybe with Mosquito fish which I used to catch in the canals, this was in California, and I had a little 2 gallon bowl and kept Sword Tails, Mollies and Guppies at one time or another, I remember being absolutely fascinated when they gave birth, and all those little Sword tail babies bright red, and then when the black Mollies had babies, the little black babies I just couldn't get enough. That is a neat experience. I started out with Livebearers as well, and I remember the same fascination with the little babies. I remember watching them pop out of the mother, I was just absolutely entranced. So d

if you have various objects in space, what does space look like? How does the universe evolve? I mean, cosmology has turned into a science since the time of Einstein. I mean, before that people had ideas about the universe and you'll often see people refer back to the same notions that occurred earlier. But really, it's now a scientific theory. So it's true there were tremendous breakthroughs in the last century. But if you know what the universe is made of, that's going to tell you how, to some extent how it evolves. And if you know how it evolves that gives you constraints on what it's made of. So it's not like there's one field of physics and you can do it in complete isolation from another one. I mean, part of what makes the field rich and enjoyable for me is that you can ask questions not just about elementary particles, but also about cosmology. And when you begin to think about ideas about the whole global nature of space time, you can't help but

determines how language in a particular country evolves. Why is French for example so different from German? You know, there's no simple measure of how different languages are from one another. In fact, if you look at the language is structurally the way a linguist to look at the French is different from the other romance languages in a variety of ways, which are, which make it more similar to German and other Germanic languages. There are a number of features of French which are sort of Germanic in character. Incidentally, Old French middle France, a French in the medieval period was not it was like the other romance languages. So something happened to it that made it less like the romance languages and more like the Germanic languages. How does language change over time? How did 18th century French change compared to 12th century French? But you know, when we talk about language change, that's very misleading. I mean, up until the the turn of the century