Category: Schools / Schooling / Education / Libraries
The story of the Earth in 33 minutes
CORRECTIONS: At 3:20 the calcium silicon oxide is labelled “CaSiCO3”. Of course it should be CaSiO3,
At 14:34 – Yes, there was an audible “no” on the soundtrack. This was from part of another track that was supposed to have been wiped. Apologies!
15:20 — Synapsids are not reptiles. Reptiles are diapsids.
18:20 – The first mammals were egg-laying. I should have said they evolved to give birth to live young. And ‘suckling’ implies a nipple, whereas they probably produced milk from pores.
23:12 – The terms Paleogene and Neogene are now universal. The International Commission on Stratigraphy abolished the term “Tertiary” in 2005.
23:16 — I should have said: “It’s likely the only surviving dinosaurs were smaller, feathered species that HAD evolved into birds.”
PLEASE NOTE: This video is explaining science, so please do not write in and claim there’s an “error” because it conflicts with your personal religious or ideological beliefs.
And please don’t post lots of “You forgot to mention….” messages. I didn’t ‘forget’ to mention anything, I decided very deliberately what to include depending on its importance, interest and relevancy.
So yes, I didn’t mention overfolds because although that places certain strata underneath other ones physically, they are still “on top” stratigraphically. And — I know — I didn’t mention reworked fossils, but I did say that finding fossils in chronological and stratigraphic order is a “general principle” and a “rule of thumb.” And I didn’t mention a host of other geological facts because this is not a three-year geology course, it’s a half-hour video. What I DO welcome are errors of scientific fact. If you see one, please let me know and I will add it to this video description.
25:07 – Someone is bound to point out that it’s possible for a person to throw an old phone from the 1900s onto a garbage dump of the 1980s. That would mess up the dating system, right?
No, because this is an analogy about fossils. It’s easy to do this in rubbish tips, but not easy in sedimentary rocks. Creationists have tried it, and their attempts have all been laughable failures.
Fossils can only be properly dated in situ – in other words, if they are found embedded in the rock itself. Just placing a Cambrian fossil on top of a Cretaceous limestone is not going to fool anyone. So nice try, but no.
Does that take care of all the repetitive, erroneous and pedantic posts I’m going to get? Probably not.
SOURCES: I usually put sources in the video description, but since this is just a basic and uncontroversial geology course it is unnecessary. Any basic geology textbook in your local library will have these facts, but if people want to dispute any of the science I will be happy to put a specific reference in the video description. And if they conflict with your personal beliefs or what you have seen in blogs, then see my videos: The Theory of Evolution Made Easy Natural Selection Made Easy The evidence for climate change without computer models or the IPCC Consensus and arguments from authority
NH Senate Nominee Demands Schools “Prove” They Aren’t Providing Litter Boxes: “I’m Not Backing Down”
The fact that every school official denies that there are litterboxes doesn’t matter to him because it is a great talking point to tarnish trans kids with. Besides a right wing media has said it is happening so that is proof it is happening right? Now I did find out that there are a few schools that do have emergency kits in classrooms that do include a bucket with kitty litter so that kids in a mass shooting lockdown stuck in the class room have a place to pee. Columbine was the first school to set these emergency kits / buckets up in the classrooms. It is not a littler box really, it is not for furries or kids playing dress up. It is a sad commentary on our country these days that something so serious as our children being in hiding from an active shooter is misconstrued to attack trans kids and ridiculed an important safety asset. Hugs
First, a reminder of his batshit claim:
“They’re putting litter boxes,” Bolduc said in the recording. “These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs. Yet they let children lick themselves and then touch everything. And they’re starting to lick each other.”
Bolduc claimed this was taking place in schools in Claremont and Derry and named Pinkerton Academy, which took to Twitter this week to refute the allegation.
“It has come to our attention that at a recent event in Claremont Don Bolduc named Pinkerton in false claims suggesting that unhygienic, disturbing practices are taking place in our classrooms and spaces on campus,” the school said. “We want to assure our community that Mr. Bolduc’s statements are entirely untrue.”
And below is this latest. Watch.
Someone should ask Don Bolduc to prove that he’s not beating his spouse.
Low information voters will think ‘it’s so outrageous it must be true’.
Also deflect from talking about real issues.
John T April Smith • 3 hours ago
They believe all that bullshit from Sunday School for no reason other than someone with authority told them to believe, so why wouldn’t they believe this?
S_E_P April Smith • 4 hours ago
Yes. Pay no attention to the erractic and devastating weather. Or Nazis. Or child molesters at the local church. Or caged children at the border. Or nuclear holocaust
Its litter boxes and drag queens that are the real problem
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 April Smith • 4 hours ago
Well, as people here have pointed out before, schools are buying litter boxes for their classrooms. As part of an “active shooter classroom lockdown” kit, because fucking Republicans think arming the mentally unbalanced is a good idea.
Instead of politely saying “this is untrue,” they need to say “this is a lie.”
These people think never backing down is a virtue. When you’re objectively wrong and your position is just plain fucking stupid, it’s time to back down.
Besides, who wants to hear this bullshit from a guy who hasn’t even proved that he doesn’t regularly rape babies and goats and baby goats? What a sicko.
NS Misutaa Roboto • 4 hours ago • edited
They think “never apologizing” is a virtue. It’s just a sign that you didn’t grow up.
Remember when they called Obama the “apologizer-in-chief” or whatever? He was already bombing the Middle East. What did they want him to do, nuke Isis?
Voldemort Runs Anti-Trans Ads In Dozens Of States
This man help push a police of separating children from their parents at the Southern border. He belongs to a party that has cut funding for child healthcare, food assistance programs, school meals, and any assistance program that helps kids. Now suddenly the focus on trans kids. They love the culture wars and worrying about the sexual organs / gender expression of other people. Hugs
Politico reports:
A deluge of radio spots and mailers targeting transgender children is hitting swing-state voters as part of a broad ad campaign directed by prominent Trump administration alums. Polling rarely registers transgender-related issues as a top priority for voters, with other topics like the economy and public safety taking the lead in this midterm cycle.
But America First Legal, launched by longtime Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, has plastered airwaves and mailboxes with the issue ahead of the election — all without mentioning candidates currently running for office, as both groups are registered nonprofits.
Ads targeting transgender children have spread in at least 25 states across the political spectrum — from Texas to Illinois to Michigan — in the last month.
Read the full article.
What the fuck. I simply cannot imagine having the time, energy, or other resources to be so vehemently opposed and oppressive toward a demographic that poses absolutely zero threat to oneself. Good grief, dude. Take up knitting or ceramics or something.
April Smith Bungee • 4 hours ago
It takes attention away from real issues.
TnCTampa • 4 hours ago • edited
Anti trans ads are all the rage in the Tampa market from Rubio. He got one he talks about boys wanting to be girls because democrats
Michael • 4 hours ago • edited
Every GOP political policy is based on hate
Let’s talk about Halloween, filters, and Fermi….
Laboratories of Autocracy – David Pepper – It’s the States, Stupid!
This is one of the most important posts I have made in my life. This audio (sorry to the hearing impaired but this is too important to ignore) shows how the republicans have seriously skewed the vote due to gerrymandered districts where democrats have to win over 75% or even more to get less than the republicans seats in states, shows how drastically skewed states are in all other aspects. Yes All gives his normal comedian intro warm up, but bypass that to get to the real story. It really is more important than I can describe. Thanks and hugs
Let’s talk about Trump endorsed candidates and swing voters….
Angry mom goes viral after giving an anti-LGBTQ commissioner hell during a public meeting
At the end of the article you will read what is behind this. A woman demands that the LGBTQ+ materials with stories about or include LGBTQ+ characters be removed and banned from everywhere because “I will not raise kids in a county that has sexual-oriented books on the counter,” she asserted. She told the group they need “to understand that God’s judgment is for Christians and non-Christians, and a fear of the Lord, if it’s not upon you, it will be upon you in hell.” This is not her church and she is not saying her kids shouldn’t be able to read the books, she is demanding that your kids not be able to read them either. Did you notice she goes on to say that judgement is coming for Christians and non-Christians implying that you non-Christians had better live by my church doctrines and rules. Republican elected office holders like DeathSantis have opened the flood gates and let the hyper religious think they now hove more rights than anyone else in the country, in fact they have the right to force you / your family to follow their rules. How long until these people insist you go to their church even if you are not of their religion? In some Islamic countries there is a tax on anyone not Muslim simply to be allowed to exist. First they came for the trans kids, then they came for the entire LGBTQ+, now they are moving the goal to enforcing their “morality from 2,500 years ago” on everyone. Hugs
Jessee Graham going off at the Maury County Board of Trustees Photo: ScreenshotA woman came to a board of trustees meeting and trounced conservative Christians after a county’s library director was driven from his job for refusing to take down a Pride display.
Maury County, Tennessee Library Director Zachary Fox resigned last week after getting pressured by a group of residents who said that the LGBTQ-themed books were inappropriate, according to WSMV-4. Fox said that his last day working would be tomorrow, October 28, but that he would stay until a replacement could be found.
“Coming to this decision has been incredibly difficult, but it is in the best interest of my family and my own health and well being,” he wrote.
Maury County Commissioner Aaron Miller – who runs the local organization Foundation for Liberty and Freedom – was at the center of the controversy, calling on Fox to resign.
“The library invested your tax dollars into a book display for LGBT History Month,” Miller told the Epoch Times. “This was surprising, considering that June is already Pride Month, a period of celebration for the LGBT community.”
Miller said that the materials were “child-targeted.”
“As a father, my line in the sand was crossed when the library exhibited a bright, colorful display of no less than 28 books for this past Pride Month, all of which were written and marketed specifically for minors, especially young children,” he said.
Last night the Maury County Board of Trustees held a meeting that got heated. And one woman – identified as Jessee Graham – is going viral for her righteously angry speech about the people who drove Fox from his job.
“Our town has never seen so much homophobic crap as we have since Miller came along,” Graham said. “These people have been with us this entire time and we have never had a problem with it. They have never done any of the vile and disgusting things that that man and his weird cronies have leaked out of their mouths.”
“I’ve never been sexually assaulted at a drag show, but I have been in church. Twice!” she continued, adding that the church “told me it was my fault.”
She called out the group’s homophobia, accusing them of wanting to “completely annihilate a group of human beings who just wanna exist.” She said that if any of her four kids are “part of this community, they will be lucky because there is not a whole lot of families that would love their child unconditionally.”
“And the fact that they want to take that away from children, that is child abuse, to immediately tell your child that he is wrong for feeling like he doesn’t belong in conversion therapy.”
The board approved Fox’s resignation.
Earlier this month, a woman who introduced herself as Stephanie went on a diatribe at a meeting discussing LGBTQ books in the library system in Maury County that was caught on video.
“I will not raise kids in a county that has sexual-oriented books on the counter,” she asserted. She told the group they need “to understand that God’s judgment is for Christians and non-Christians, and a fear of the Lord, if it’s not upon you, it will be upon you in hell.”
The woman said she represented “every law-abiding, taxpaying citizen here in Maury County,” then told her would-be constituents, “you are blind” not to see that “when perversion permeates our county, that’s when the devil gets our children.”
“Obviously, revelation prophecies are occurring right before our eyes,” she said.
Tudor Dixon: Ban Books About Divorce
Read more HERE: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/g… “The types of books Michigan’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon wants to ban appear to keep expanding. In recently released audio, Dixon suggested that books about divorce shouldn’t be available to all students in public schools.
This week, the progressive PAC American Bridge 21st Century unearthed the October 2020 clip from Dixon’s time as an anchor on far-right streaming network Real America’s Voice show America’s Voice Live, in which Dixon claimed that a children’s book about divorce caused her daughter anxiety.”*
