Lupron and school closures

I guess this is about how much language changes. Watching this video: Japanese Plans to Ally with African Americans. I’m not going to comment on the main issue but a detail. In the video Manchu princess Kawashima “ Eastern Jewel'” Yoshiko (1907-1948) is called “she” but also described as transgender. That was new to me. A princess - biological female - who’s describe with the pronouns “she/her” is postumt transgender. Then did that happen? Why? Because Kawashima was in the military? Why use the word "she" of they are so sure she was transgender.

 

Then it seems like it has become politicized. And perhaps it’s like Professor Francois “militant covid centrist" Balloux said that when medical  science get politicized science loses. That’s all I have to say. I know this is personal for one of you. It makes me less likely to write about the subject. In other words, I  would have posted this anyway. It is not a comment on anyones personal life.

 

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“Today, we are in a climate crisis, an extinction crisis, a hunger crisis, a trust crisis. We need all the tools at our disposal if we're going to survive these crises, and we need to learn how to talk openly and honestly about these tools. In fact, the tools that we have now are probably not enough to save us or other species or our habitats. For this, we need tools unlike any that exist today, tools that we have yet to imagine, because the road ahead is going to be bumpy.

But, for now, we still have elephants.”

 

Beth Shapiro in Life as we made it

 

Btw when reading a popular science book about life science my local patriotism forces me to look up what the book says about Emanuelle Capietiere. If the book mentions she worked at the local university when she co-wrote the paper suggesting CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to program genomes. Beth Shapiro doesn’t mention that.