Grandmother Fish: A Child’s First Book of Evolution. Kids love learning that we are part of the animal family. #evolution #science @GrandmotherFish. Also games.

Seattle, USA
Joined October 2011
Inspired by my daughter, I worked for 15 years to make Grandmother Fish a reality. Now it's in Italian, Chinese, and Japanese! Hoot hoot!
With Grandmother Fish, little kids mimic the sounds and motions of our ancestors as they learn the story of #evolution. There’s no other book like it. “Highly recommended for homes, schools, and libraries.” —School Library Journal @MacKidsBooks @MacKidsSL #ChildrensBooks
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I don’t think it’s great for the president to be accepting huge opaque payments from foreign governments (and lobbyists and everyone else) through his network of clubs and hotels foxnews.com/politics/trump-h…
I agree w plenty of this. If people feel hopeless about working for a better future, then it's their perspective that's causing hopelessness, not the situation itself. Feeling hopeless? Probably you need a better perspective on things.
Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. 1/6
Good overview of conflicts on campuses. It's been a wild 10 years!
A interesting and balanced perspective on the campus wars: chronicle.com/article/a-deca…
Claudine Gay has resigned. Seems like the only way out. Not a happy story on any level.
Replying to @Evolutionistrue
They can't fire her because that would be tantamount to admitting that they were wrong to choose her to be their president. But probably she will resign, saying that she has to do it in order to free Harvard from the negative attention.
Consensus thinking gave us the idea that there were mass graves of children at Canada's former Residential Schools for Indians. The public demanded action. Churches got burned. It wasn't true. davidcycleback.substack.com/…
I like the Emancipation Proclamation. Today I hear that "no one is free until everyone is free", which means that no event in history ever freed anybody and that today nobody is free. Seems like a stretch. Hurray for the EP!
161 years ago today, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. It stipulated— "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Happy new year! I predict that Trump will not be elected president. My predictions about his political trajectory have been mostly wrong, so...
Universalist Unitarian ministers used to get kicked out for things like child porn. Now they're getting kicked out for criticizing the leadership's political views. It's pretty bonkers. UUs are liberal, so now that liberalism is "white supremacy", that's awkward.
On the disintegration of the United Unitarian Church. Kind of feels like "Critical Theory" was hand tailored to destroy liberal institutions. Thoughts? @JonathanMTweet news.fairforall.org/p/the-id…
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Iranian-backed Houthi small boats attack merchant vessel and U.S. Navy helicopters in Southern Red Sea On Dec. 31 at 6:30am (Sanaa time) the container ship MAERSK HANGZHOU issued a second distress call in less than 24 hours reporting being under attack by four Iranian-backed Houthi small boats. The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired crew served and small arms weapons at the MAERSK HANGZHOU, getting to within 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel. A contract embarked security team on the MAERSK HANZGHOU returned fire. U.S. helicopters from the USS EISENHOWER (CVN 69) and GRAVELY (DDG 107) responded to the distress call and in the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats, the small boats fired upon the U.S. helicopters with crew served weapons and small arms. The U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defense, sinking three of the four small boats, and killing the crews. The fourth boat fled the area. There was no damage to U.S. personnel or equipment.
When thinking about how to work for a better tomorrow, my main guide is effectiveness as demonstrated by results. It's curious that the author doesn't compare how effective socialist activism has been compared to decolonial activism. For me, that's the best test.
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In a key exchange in the 1866 Senate debate, Sen. Reverdy Johnson asked why the offices of president and vice president had been omitted from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Sen. Justin Morrill quickly clarified: "'Let me call the Senator's attention to the words 'or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States,' Morrill said, ending the discussion on that point." A second quote sheds light on another major question the courts have grappled with: Was Section 3 a prospective prohibition for insurrections yet to come? Here's what Sen. Peter Van Winkle said: "This is to go into our Constitution and to stand to govern future insurrection as well as the present; and I should like to have that point definitely understood." abcnews.go.com/Politics/fram…
Socialists are talking about history, material facts, and class as if it’s still the 50s. Today the real money is in neo-epistemologies and counter-narratives, but the socialists stay true to their cause. I can respect that.
Cloaked in an impenetrable jargon, “decoloniality” dehistoricizes and culturalizes colonialism. It’s a political and intellectual dead end for socialists. jacobin.com/2023/12/walter-m…
An aversion to good news is common enough to be predictable nytimes.com/2023/12/30/opini…
Presumably, these students are not students of history. Fifty years ago, certain "forward-thinking" Americans supported Mao because he promoted a dramatic alternative to traditional culture, but come on.
Tomorrow will mark 130 years since the birth of one of the most important revolutionaries of all time. Even today, Mao lives on through his contributions to the science of making revolution and liberating the exploited and oppressed masses.
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It's easy to be principled in the yellow zone, when your tribe is behaving admirably. A person's true colors are tested only when yellow isn't an option—when their team and principles are in conflict. Tribal loyalty and principles can't both be sacred—you have to choose one.
Looks like the oppressor/victim narrative derives from Herbert Marcuse & "Repressive Tolerance" (published by Unitarian Universalists), as interpreted today in light of Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw's intersectionality narrative. afterbabel.com/p/victim-oppr…
Trigger warnings are an example of consensus thinking. People implemented them because there was a consensus that it was a good idea. Evidence > consensus. In Over the Edge (2019), I wanted to include a joke trigger warning, but we removed it because it was too triggering.
New data confirm earlier conclusions: trigger warnings don't work to ameliorate trauma, help students avoid what "triggers" them, and improve educational outcomes. Yet they're still being used, mainly because students want them and profs are scared. whyevolutionistrue.com/2023/…
The Rule of Law is a beautiful thing. We're lucky to have it.
BREAKING: Maine Secretary of State rules Trump is ineligible to appear on 2024 ballot. 34-page decision: maine.gov/sos/news/2023/Deci…
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It was about slavery.
Asked what caused the Civil War, Nikki Haley refuses to mention slavery: “What do you want me to say about slavery? Next question.”