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East Meets West 20

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1. Timothy Says:
   April 30th, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   quick post from the library.

   couldn’t help smiling from listening to you guys towards the end. it sounded like a recording of my evolutionary theory class last wednesday. it’s the same stuff we’ve been going over, around, thru, and over again. re-defining the term species, of which there are 30+ well accepted definitions within anthro, also covered dogs and breeds and species and subspecies, etc.

   as for the term race of which i intensely dislike in its current ignorantly popular usage, my own world view is there’s only a human race. that’s why i look forward to first contact by ETs. then we humans can all get together for a nice pint or two and catch a premier match on the telly.

2. jeff s. Says:
   May 1st, 2006 at 5:05 am

   another great episode,
   On cannibalism, (from ep-19) Vincent Price recorded a series of cooking tapes, one of them was for “Curried Boy” (mp3 file here http://eikonphotografx.com/krap/price_curry.mp3 )

   On Buffalo, Catalina Island has a heard of over 200 (a dozen were brought over for the filming of “The Vanishing American” in 1925), this shocked the heck out of me the first time I went there as a child, because my teachers also said they were extinct.

3. Peterjon Says:
   May 2nd, 2006 at 8:50 am

   What breed am i that would be a weird question to have to check on a job applications and is these days there would be a lot of mutts that pure breeds.

4. barret55 Says:
   May 2nd, 2006 at 10:15 am

   I must be in the minority on the whole ‘my teacher told me that Buffalo are extinct’ quandry, because I never have been (in my 32 years) under any impression that Buffalo were extinct.

   But, they sure do make good burgers.

   -Terry

5. Timothy Says:
   May 2nd, 2006 at 5:46 pm

   lost my way once upon a time on the Oklahoma plains and came across a fence line that stretched the horizon. got out of the car, looked off to the other side and saw a sizeable herd of bison in the distance. wow, even from the distance the bison were huge. not sure if it was a refuge or a farm though. actually wasn’t sure if i was even still in Oklahoma.

6. Timothy Says:
   May 2nd, 2006 at 11:46 pm

   wow, this is literally incredible. here’s a National Geographic article about really being lost – Young Americans Geographically Illiterate, Survey Suggests

   here’s a couple bullets i grabbed from the article.

   “Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East.

   Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel.

   Nine in ten couldn’t find Afghanistan on a map of Asia.

   And 54 percent were unaware that Sudan is a country in Africa.”

   “Half could not find New York State on a map of the United States.

   A third of the respondents could not find Louisiana, and 48 percent couldn’t locate Mississippi on a map of the United States, even though Hurricane Katrina put these southeastern states in the spotlight in 2005.”

   here’s some more stuff,

   “Three in ten respondents put the U.S. population between one and two billion.

   Seventy-four percent said English is the most commonly spoken native language in the world.”

   http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/0502_060502_geography_2.html

7. Timothy Says:
   May 2nd, 2006 at 11:47 pm

   oops, the first quote is regarding Iraq.

8. Justin Broderick Says:
   May 5th, 2006 at 2:57 am

   Well you guys were talking about Guiliani getting rid of the homeless, well think again…
   He pulled one of the biggest shell games ever, Guiliani got them off the street but what he couldn’t shoehorn into shelters and put in jail were driven into the subways. If you know anything about NY city then you probably know there is about as many people living underground in NYC as there are overground.

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