The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries
Sandra Dodd
"The concept of extinction took a while to sink in. Thomas Jefferson
saw mastodon bones from Kentucky, for example, and concluded that the
giant animals must still be living somewhere in the interior of the
continent. He asked Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for them."
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None of them disturbed me at all. That fact might disturb some of the
rest of you. :-) (I hope not...)
Can't say this will be comic relief, but it might break some of the
tension and focus of the day's discussions.
Sandra
saw mastodon bones from Kentucky, for example, and concluded that the
giant animals must still be living somewhere in the interior of the
continent. He asked Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for them."
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Ten-Most-Disturbing-Scientific-Discoveries.html?utm_source=smithsoniansciandnat&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20100519-science#ixzz0oUT0F4vB
None of them disturbed me at all. That fact might disturb some of the
rest of you. :-) (I hope not...)
Can't say this will be comic relief, but it might break some of the
tension and focus of the day's discussions.
Sandra
Jenny Cyphers
"The concept of extinction took a while to sink in. Thomas Jefferson
saw mastodon bones from Kentucky, for example, and concluded that the
giant animals must still be living somewhere in the interior of the
continent. He asked Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for them."
Oh, I was watching a documentary yesterday that Chamille walked in on. She came in just in time to hear about Galileo. When his life was threatened by the Catholic church he took back everything he said about the earth moving around the sun. That was way too disturbing for the Catholic church, heresy.
That whole conversation led to the ideas of censorship and the monopoly of knowledge and who gets to know what. But boy oh boy, Galileo's scientific discovery very much disturbed the church!
I don't think Chamille even knew who Galileo was before last night, or that people used to believe that the sun revolved around the earth!
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saw mastodon bones from Kentucky, for example, and concluded that the
giant animals must still be living somewhere in the interior of the
continent. He asked Lewis and Clark to keep an eye out for them."
Oh, I was watching a documentary yesterday that Chamille walked in on. She came in just in time to hear about Galileo. When his life was threatened by the Catholic church he took back everything he said about the earth moving around the sun. That was way too disturbing for the Catholic church, heresy.
That whole conversation led to the ideas of censorship and the monopoly of knowledge and who gets to know what. But boy oh boy, Galileo's scientific discovery very much disturbed the church!
I don't think Chamille even knew who Galileo was before last night, or that people used to believe that the sun revolved around the earth!
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