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

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On Sun, Nov 9, 2025, 10:56 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On 10/11/2025 04:30, spike at rainier66.com wrote:
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> *From:* Ben Zaiboc <ben at zaiboc.net> <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 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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>  Discovery was Female Women, go on write her name in the same paragraph!
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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
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> Approximately three seconds after the Watson realization, I passed a sign:
> Watsonville.
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> Good example
> RIP one-half of the alleged discoverers of DNA
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> 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
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> (was Watsonville actually named after /that/ Watson, or someone else,
> farther back in history? I don't imagine Watson is a very rare name)
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