Thomas Jefferson And The Giant Moose
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Countries are like sports teams: they love their mascots. Some are powerful, some are adorable, and some are… completely fictional. Wait, that’s real? If you say so! Here in the United States? We picked this. [ROCK AND ROLL!!] But maybe it should have been this? [MUSIC] America’s first, and maybe most important scientific battle wasn’t the space race, or the atom bomb… it was between Thomas Jefferson, a French nobleman, and in the middle, a moose. In America’s early days, science and nature were actually part of everyday life. Reading the weather, finding game, knowing which plants were poisonous… these were literally matters of life and death. [EAGLE SCREAMING] But across the Atlantic, science was still mostly for folks with fancy names, like this guy. The Count of Bu...
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Countries are like sports teams: they love their mascots. Some are powerful, some are adorable, and some are… completely fictional. Wait, that’s real? If you say so! Here in the United States? We picked this. [ROCK AND ROLL!!] But maybe it should have been this? [MUSIC] America’s first, and maybe most important scientific battle wasn’t the space race, or the atom bomb… it was between Thomas Jefferson, a French nobleman, and in the middle, a moose. In America’s early days, science and nature were actually part of everyday life. Reading the weather, finding game, knowing which plants were poisonous… these were literally matters of life and death. [EAGLE SCREAMING] But across the Atlantic, science was still mostly for folks with fancy names, like this guy. The Count of Bu...
