Dec 16, 2021 11:24 PM
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“Jeopardy” shows that the Woke have won
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/12/1...-have-won/
EXCERPTS (Jerry Coyne): . . . This question/answer was the “Daily double” in the first (single) Jeopardy part of the show.
Answer: Biologist T.H. Huxley was a renowned defender of this theory & in 1893 famously lectured on it ‘& Ethics’
Contestant (English Prof from Penn State U, Hester Blum): What is eugenics?
Host: Sorry, the question is “What is evolution?”
I don’t think this contestant was well-informed on science. She laughed out loud when the subject for Final Jeopardy was introduced: Physics.
[...] "It’s interesting but not surprising that someone would know just enough science to name scientists to cancel but not much beyond that. If it’s any consolation, she lost the contest."
It would be an English professor, wouldn’t it? (Or a sociologist or cultural anthropologist!)
I’ve written about T. H. Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog”) several times, and about how his reputation has been unfairly besmirched. [...] he was NEVER a proponent of eugenics! (MORE - missing details)
World's 1st 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs found deep below Earth's surface
https://www.cnet.com/news/worlds-first-t...s-surface/
EXCERPTS: Around the world, more than 7,000 species of millipede crawl across forest floors and garden beds, pairs of legs pumping as they move through soil in search of food. The limbs can number in the dozens to the hundreds, and while the term "millipede" translates to "a thousand feet," the record number of millipede movers has stood at around 750 legs since the description of a Californian species back in 2006.
"Millipede" has been a misnomer. A thousand feet? A myth. Until today. "All of the introductory textbooks will have to be rewritten because there is a true millipede now," says Dennis Black, a millipede expert and adjunct research fellow at LaTrobe University in Australia.
The "true" millipede has been dubbed Eumillipes persephone. The new species was discovered in a borehole, drilled as part of a Western Australian mining operation, almost 200 feet (60 meters) below the Earth's surface. It's the first millipede to live up to its multi-legged moniker with a staggering 1,306 legs.
[...] Named for Persephone, the Greek goddess of the underworld, the spindly, brown crawler is just over 3.7 inches long and about as thin as a USB cable. The millipede also lives much deeper in the soil than any previously known species, and the story of its discovery makes for a tale of great luck and incredible irony... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OZyGbEUun0s
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/12/1...-have-won/
EXCERPTS (Jerry Coyne): . . . This question/answer was the “Daily double” in the first (single) Jeopardy part of the show.
Answer: Biologist T.H. Huxley was a renowned defender of this theory & in 1893 famously lectured on it ‘& Ethics’
Contestant (English Prof from Penn State U, Hester Blum): What is eugenics?
Host: Sorry, the question is “What is evolution?”
I don’t think this contestant was well-informed on science. She laughed out loud when the subject for Final Jeopardy was introduced: Physics.
[...] "It’s interesting but not surprising that someone would know just enough science to name scientists to cancel but not much beyond that. If it’s any consolation, she lost the contest."
It would be an English professor, wouldn’t it? (Or a sociologist or cultural anthropologist!)
I’ve written about T. H. Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog”) several times, and about how his reputation has been unfairly besmirched. [...] he was NEVER a proponent of eugenics! (MORE - missing details)
World's 1st 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs found deep below Earth's surface
https://www.cnet.com/news/worlds-first-t...s-surface/
EXCERPTS: Around the world, more than 7,000 species of millipede crawl across forest floors and garden beds, pairs of legs pumping as they move through soil in search of food. The limbs can number in the dozens to the hundreds, and while the term "millipede" translates to "a thousand feet," the record number of millipede movers has stood at around 750 legs since the description of a Californian species back in 2006.
"Millipede" has been a misnomer. A thousand feet? A myth. Until today. "All of the introductory textbooks will have to be rewritten because there is a true millipede now," says Dennis Black, a millipede expert and adjunct research fellow at LaTrobe University in Australia.
The "true" millipede has been dubbed Eumillipes persephone. The new species was discovered in a borehole, drilled as part of a Western Australian mining operation, almost 200 feet (60 meters) below the Earth's surface. It's the first millipede to live up to its multi-legged moniker with a staggering 1,306 legs.
[...] Named for Persephone, the Greek goddess of the underworld, the spindly, brown crawler is just over 3.7 inches long and about as thin as a USB cable. The millipede also lives much deeper in the soil than any previously known species, and the story of its discovery makes for a tale of great luck and incredible irony... (MORE - missing details)