17 August 2026—A tire blew out during a family car trip through Kansas, but it wasn’t all bad news for eight-year-old Nate Stevens, who was eager to dig for fossils along the road. “And then I started pulling out Inoceramid clam fossils, because anywhere in the middle of Kansas, you pick up a rock, there’s a fossil in it, because it’s an old seabed,” Stevens recalls. The memory stayed with him as he looked at college majors. “The rest of my fami…
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