Science education saves lives

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ort of sad they didn't pass on their knowledge to others, but I was pretty stunned that most people (especially those living by the sea) would not know this. I would think it is just as much "sea wisdom" as it is known scienc.

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This may be becuase of the dislocation of people from trtaditional lifestyles into a modern cash-based economy; the sea gypsies may have presevred knowledge lost to others in a traditional context. Most european fieldcraft has been lost, nowadays.