Being nasty to them what deserve it

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...the people at ICR aren't competent to offer kindergarten level courses in pretty, pretty baby animals, let alone real biology.

-- P.Z. Myers at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/are_we_tired_of_texas_inanity.php talking about Texas considering the accreditation of the Institute for Creation Research to grant M.S. in science education.

I like saying "pretty, pretty baby animals". Z and E both know the Latin names for several dozen dinosaurs and know approximately when they became extinct. _Go Diego Go_ isn't an awful resource for teaching Central and South American ecology, although they do tend to refer to X being a major predator of Y as Yis afraid of X! I suppose there would be problems with blood and gore on kiddie TV cartoons.

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[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Likewise here. LB's been going to the butcher since he was a wee one, with the express lesson that "this used to be a cow, that used to be a hen, that used to be a pig" etc. (My plan being that my son will not believe food appears in plastic wrap at the groc store magically).

It was a piece of information, that's all. Helped him really grok the concept of predator/prey.