Videos SS #41: 1/30/19
Facilitated by Renata Martin
From enforced sex change in crabs to sleeping sickness to a cicada whose butt falls off to become a “flying saltshaker of death,” welcome to the weird and wonderful (?) world of parasitic host manipulation. You can run, but you can’t hide from these incredibly unique evolutionary strategies!
Chris will recount some of what transpired in San Francisco in the 1850s when bold & entrepreneurial (some say foolish & greedy) men scaled the cliffs of the Farallon Islands to plunder the eggs of the Common Murre. This led to the inevitable – the wealth of a few, the decline of the murre population, and violent conflict.
Frederick Douglass once said that the moment we created slavery, we also created freedom. In an effort to justify Native American extermination and the Slave trade, Europeans created the concept of race out of thin air. They then set out to prove their theories by backfilling them with bad science. Today race drives elections, beliefs, and every other facet of our lives…but in truth, the concept really means nothing.