Much more likely to be false…. Maybe they should stop, before it’s too late.
Think of it like the Mozart effect or ghost hunting or neoliberalism or whatever. Just keep making noise about it, and somebody out there will eventually believe. If you can get it on a cable network, even better.
PaulBCsays
Aren’t the tastes that indicate future success usually developed a bit earlier in life?
davidc1says
Robert Scott, in a last letter to his wife, advised her to “make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games”
Enough said.
We might extend the principle to arthropods in general. Scorpions? Resurrected, giant trilobites?
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Also, the necromancer Johannes Cabal has a spider demon as a girlfriend, so if you are into celebrity worship this is another reason to be open-minded.
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Would Gregor Samsa qualify as a specimen?
consciousness razor says
Much more likely to be false…. Maybe they should stop, before it’s too late.
Think of it like the Mozart effect or ghost hunting or neoliberalism or whatever. Just keep making noise about it, and somebody out there will eventually believe. If you can get it on a cable network, even better.
PaulBC says
Aren’t the tastes that indicate future success usually developed a bit earlier in life?
davidc1 says
Robert Scott, in a last letter to his wife, advised her to “make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games”
Enough said.
Pierce R. Butler says
Darwin’s “gateway drug” was barnacles.
Lofty says
A Way Down Under spider story for Da Pee Zee:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-22/nullarbor-cavers-discover-new-trapdoor-spiders-species-csiro/13167944
birgerjohansson says
We might extend the principle to arthropods in general. Scorpions? Resurrected, giant trilobites?
.
Also, the necromancer Johannes Cabal has a spider demon as a girlfriend, so if you are into celebrity worship this is another reason to be open-minded.
.
Would Gregor Samsa qualify as a specimen?