{"id":45,"date":"2006-09-20T17:04:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-08-04T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:06:48","slug":"darwin-and-the-racing-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Darwin and the Racing Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great NPR story on Charles Darwin<\/a>. FlCfS president Joe Wolf told me when he brought this story to my attention that, “It is told as a story but it is really teaching about science and evolution. To me it is a good example of how we can use stories to teach the public about evolution.”<\/p>\n

That it is.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a great, earth-shaking, new idea in science can be created in the most homespun ways.<\/p>\n

Listen to my Morning Edition<\/em> piece to hear how Charles Darwin and his butler dropped asparagus into a tub and how Darwin and his oldest son studied dead pigeons floating upside down in a bowl to test ideas about evolution.<\/p>\n

— Krulwich on Science<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great NPR story on Charles Darwin. FlCfS president Joe Wolf told me when he brought this story to my attention that, “It is told as a story but it is really teaching about science and evolution. 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