[ExI] James Watson (was: Re: Gender-Neutral Side Note)

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 10/11/2025 04:30, spike at rainier66.com wrote:
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> *From:*Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net>
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> *>…* We like neat stories about some lone genius making a 
> world-changing discovery, but it rarely happens like that…
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> Ben
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> Ben meaningless but fun aside: I went down to Moss Landing today to 
> look around where that big battery fire was, thinking of strategies 
> for investment (more on that later perhaps.)
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> As I was heading down HW 101, the flags were at half mast.  Who 
> perished?  Dick Cheney, but it is dubious that they would half-mast 
> flags for Dick Cheney. Suddenly it hit me: Watson!  The co-discoverer 
> of the structure of DNA.
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> Approximately three seconds after the Watson realization, I passed a 
> sign: Watsonville.
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> spike
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Good example
RIP one-half of the alleged discoverers of DNA

To be fair, it could be considered more of a 'team effort', with the 
main contributor originally marginalised, but I doubt it's as simple as 
that in reality

(was Watsonville actually named after /that/ Watson, or someone else, 
farther back in history? I don't imagine Watson is a very rare name)

-- 
Ben

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