• 66: What is a Species & What is UK Voting?

  • Jul 18 2024
  • Duración: 1 h y 56 m
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66: What is a Species & What is UK Voting?

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  • It's a word we say all the time but... what IS a species? How has it been used in the past, and could the different answers all be right? And how does voting work in the UK? It starts with voting for knights, and could hopefully end in the future with something even better.Images we Talk About:Ella's Zoom MoustacheTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:04:23) What is a Species?(01:01:54) UK Voting(01:50:46) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Jenny Lec, the definition we know is wrong, has anyone taken my title On The Origin of Species? This is my favorite! Oh shit… generic and specific, thinking of species as logical units, Kingdom Phylum Friends Acquaintances Work Friends Genus Species, the anime dewey decimal system, dark fungi, the cognitive dissonance of science at the time, even Darwin didn’t have a good definition of species, 1942 is when the common species definition was popularized, Biological - Evolutionary - Genetic definition of species, species gerrymandering, there is only 1 species of giraffe but should there be 4? policy first science, you don’t need hard definitions to do amazing things, nature is constantly doing kickflips over our no skateboarding signs, you really put your whole polizzy into naming that hybrid, a ring of banging around the himalayans, ring species in actuality look like a biblically accurate angel, let’s just ask what definitions scientists use, you can’t tell if fossils ever fucked, we only knew about human neandrethal interbreeding since 2010, what’s so wrong with having multiple species definitions? there’s a lot to biology! in between “there’s one answer” and “there’s no answers” is “there’s many answers”, Lizzy Poll, you can just call an election early?? in the UK you just vote for your member of parliament, it’s actually really weird to have a separate vote for president, every 2 steps forward is brought 1 step back by “the monster raving loony party”, Elmo think women no need to vote, the house senate and president, coalitions, tea cups with electoral college members on them, electing knights in the first parliament in 1264, bloc voting lets you pick your top favorites, Cromwell was the first Footloose, we had discovered quantum physics before women could vote, First Past the Post was only establish in 1948 in the UK, what are the positives of First Past the Post and cockroaches? please let us loose to bash FPTP, tactical voting, Australia has a version of Ranked Choice, Tom finally gets to wax poetic about Ranked Choice Voting, france’s 2 round voting, if the definition of species should match the task why not the type of voting system? the 2011 voting reform attempt, it’s been the foundation of this country for generation, try ranked choice voting on smaller scales and locally, Ella falls in love with herself, happy hour gender confusionSourcesCarl Zimmer for NYT "What is a Species Really?"Aristotle's Use of Species and GenusQueiroz on Ernst Mayer and Species DefinitionsMontana State on Linneus and Species DefinitionsDark FungiErnst Mayer's Modern Excellent "Systematics And The Origin Of Species"Paper Debating Darwin's Definition of SpeciesBird InterbreedingScientific American on Wolf SpeciesThe Greenish Warbler Broken Ring SpeciesStankowski and Ravinet's Amazing "Quantifying the use of Species Concepts"NHM "Are Neandrethals the Same Species as Us"---Sky News: General Election ExplainedUK Parliament: Voting Systems in the UKElectoral Reform Party: How Long Have We Used First Past the Post?2019 Paper: Electoral Systems and Electoral Reform in Historical Perspective by David KlempererParliament UK: Magna CartaPDF: UK Parliament and the MonarchyUK Parliament: Women get the VoteBBC: Voting System in the UKUK Parliament: Proportional RepresentationThe Guardian: ‘Disproportionate’ UK Election Results Boost Calls to Ditch First Past the PostThe Conversation: The Conservatives May Regret Campaigning to Keep First Past the Post in 2011
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