<div dir="auto"><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000">Ilsa Bartlett</font></font><div><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#3333ff">Institute for Rewiring the System</font></font></font><br><a href="http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett</a><br><a href="http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm" target="_blank">www.hotlux.com/angel</a><br><br>"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person."<br>-John Coltrane</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 9, 2025, 10:56 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>On 10/11/2025 04:30,
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We like neat stories about some lone genius making a
world-changing discovery, but it rarely happens like that…<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> Discovery was Female Women, go on write her name in the same paragraph!<u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Approximately three seconds after the
Watson realization, I passed a sign: Watsonville.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Good example<br>
RIP one-half of the alleged discoverers of DNA<br>
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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 reality<br>
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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)<br>
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