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Jad Abumrad

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What answer?

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Well, the answer to the question about what carries through.

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The continuity question.

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Oh, right, yes.

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A memory carries through.

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Which is freaking cool, I gotta say.

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It is freaking cool, but there's a little more freaking cool.

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All right.

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And that is that there's actually a continuity, but it goes in the reverse direction.

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What does that even mean?

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Well, uh, Matthew Cobb told me this story about this guy.

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Schwamadam.

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Schwamadam, okay.

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That's Jan Schwamadam, a Dutch microscopist from the 1600s.

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And the caterpillar.

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and even its legs that are actually already formed even before pupation takes place.

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So you peel back the skin of a caterpillar and beneath it you see the new creature hidden.

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That's so bizarre.

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It's like if you were to skin me and my 70-year-old self is inside of me or something.

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Wait, and the wings also survive the goo?