What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin 79
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from the great-beard-on-that-one dept.
Calopteryx writes "The correspondence of Alfred Russel Wallace has gone online for the first time. New Scientist has opened a wormhole between the 21st and 19th centuries and has 'interviewed' the great man."
Re:Is a blog format possible (Score:5, Funny)
No. No digital representation of a date can represent values before 1900, nor is it even mathematically possible.
Re:Is a blog format possible (Score:4, Funny)
Whatever buddy, it doesn't really matter.
It's all in the past now.
The Wallace Award (Score:3, Funny)
The Wallace Award is for people who would get a Darwin Award, but are slighted full recognition for their achievement.
Re:Blacklisted, not just "fired" (Score:2, Funny)
there's nothing racist about the word "blacklisting" or "blacklisted."
Agreed. Incorrectly perceived racism is no reason to be niggardly with your vocabulary.
Re:Correct. (Score:4, Funny)
We gained color as compensation for the missing days, under the Law of Conservation of Colors/Days:
[reoiv.com]http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/dadbandwandcolour.jpg [reoiv.com]
Little known fact that Wallace lived in a black and white world