The Sponge's Tale @JacksonWheat

Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

A discussion of “The Sponge’s Tale” in Richard Dawkins’ and Yan Wong’s book The Ancestor’s Tale. All pictures are from Google.
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$Jim Jordan vs. Plankton Correcting Ohio’s Representative Jim Jordan’s misunderstanding about the US federal budget and science. All pictures are from Google. “How much has the U.S. government spent this year?”: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/#spending-categories “About the National Science Foundation”: https://www.nsf.gov/about/ “NSF Budget: FY22 Outcomes and FY23 Request” https://www.aip.org/fyi/2022/nsf-budget-fy22-outcomes-and-fy23-request “Federal Science Budget Tracker”: https://www.aip.org/fyi/federal-science-budget-tracker “Research gets a boost in final 2023 spending agreement”: https://www.science.org/content/article/research-gets-boost-final-2023-spending-agreement “Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58501-w “Ocean Acidification”: https://youtu.be/jW9eqRFGSGM “Is The Earth Warming?”: https://youtu.be/VH_aGqC5LCM “Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long-term food web degradation”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.15161 “The French Fruit Fly Fracas”: https://www.science.org/content/article/french-fruit-fly-fracas “I kid you not”: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615159/ “Two States Now Have Universal School Choice — And Yours Could Be Next” https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/27/two-states-now-have-universal-school-choice-and-yours-could-be-next/ “The High Return on Investment for Publicly Funded Research” https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-high-return-on-investment-for-publicly-funded-research/$

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