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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Cockatrice

4/19/2022

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In 1474, the people of Basel tried, convicted and sentenced to death a rooster, in one of the strangest court cases in history.
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Ami link
4/19/2022 07:33:23 pm

Possibly the most elegant response to the sudden passage across the country of a host of laws which seem intended to plunge this country back to a time when it and we knew less than we do now.

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Erling Hope link
4/24/2022 01:27:15 pm

Great episode, great show in general. I thought you might appreciate this from H.G. Wells' 1936 Science of Life: ""In the year 1474, a remarkable trial took place in the Swiss town of Bale. A barndoor cock had laid an egg. With all due formality, it was tried for witchcraft, sentenced, and publicly burnt. Such sexual aberrations in fowls are not excessively rare. Crowing hens are sufficiently well-known phenomena to figure in a rhymed proverb- "A whistling maid and a crowing hen Are neither fit for God nor men." A bird ceases to lay, her comb enlarges, and she begins to crow. Some go farther and exhibit male behavior--they fight with cocks and pay court to hens. This is not uncommon." p. 568

"...the adolescent oyster is male; then it becomes female; and thereafter it swings slowly from sex to sex with a yearly rhythm." p.569

"On the one side a little abnormal thought and behavior is represented as a terrible crime, on the other hand it is elevated to the dignity of a marvelous distinction. Sexual fuss is rather characteristic of the primates, as any cage of baboons will testify." p.574 Wells, H.G., w/ Julian S. Huxley and G.P. Wells, "The Science of Life" (New York: The Book League of America, Inc., 1936).

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