Horse + Donkey = Mule
You know this. Well, you should.
Apparently there are many animals that…appreciate variety.
Whale + Dolphin = Wholphin
Leopard + Lion = Leopon
Cow + Buffalo = Beefalo
The Kansas Board of Education is at times in the hands of a conservative (read: religious) majority. During such times, evolution comes up for debate.
Having recently ambled through the Natural History Museums in New York and Washington, D.C. (and since then Vienna as well), I find this hard to believe. In museums, evolution is a an undisputed process, responsible for the ever changing cabaret of life through the ages. Only art museums contain alternatives to evolution, being archives of fantasy as well as fact and history.
But perhaps they’ve no museums in Kansas.
For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgoten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxys than people. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions, and by the depth of our answers.
There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it.
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
They’re smart, flexible and ancient. Article.
Apparently, microwaves make for many unsafe (and scientific) activities. And if you’re too cool for science, you can watch videos of others having fun. Also grape plasma.