After surgery as a teen left her temporarily blind, Edith Widder decided to become a deep-sea explorer. Here’s why she says that everyone can benefit from nurturing a sense of exploration.
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Your dream of becoming a marine biologist almost ended at age 18 when surgery for a broken back led to frightening complications—including temporary blindness. What was that experience like for you? is able to turn it into information and how it can be used as a kind of language. Light is communication at a distance.While I was in the hospital, I learned to control my feelings of
. And that’s just so wrong. We’ve visited only about .05 percent of the bottom of the ocean—and that’s just the bottom! We’re talking about 300 million cubic miles of volume, and we’ve explored just a teensy fraction of that.
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