If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help. (via TYWKIWDBI)
US ranks first in swearing. (via Fark)
When Daddy comes home.
A Century Ago, a High School Teacher From a Small Tennessee Town Ignited a National Debate Over Human Evolution.
Cool Tips. This is satisfying to watch, even if you never need to use any of them. (via Nag on the Lake)
The Movie Flop That Led to The Andy Griffith Show.
These Trailblazing Black Paramedics Are the Reason You Don’t Have to Ride a Hearse or a Police Van to the Hospital. A video documentary is included.
Space-Time for Springers. An amazing story of a kitten growing up. (Thanks, Marco McClean!)
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Goodbye Darwin
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3311949/french-lamarckism-beats-darwinism-chinas-groundbreaking-study-evolution
First in swearing? You need to watch English soccer. Every other word is F***
I always watch those useful tips/hacks and instantly forget what was shown :P
I always do a word search, in articles about the Scopes trial, on the surname of George William Hunter, whose textbook "A Civic Biology Presented in Problems (New York: American Book Company, 1914)" was at the center of the controversy.
It is absent in this article.
We've got the fictionalized play "Inherit the Wind" and the general idea that "science" won over "religion" (in the end even if Scopes himself was convicted at trial before appeal), and completely sweep under the rug the fact that the "science" in question was the racist pseudoscience of the time.
It is sobering to read the contemporaneous descriptions of the trial testimony and the related portions of this textbook, and then see how differently the trial is framed in articles such as the one linked above.
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