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Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould · 初版 1991 年
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收录自作者在Natural history上发表的专栏This view of life中的随笔散文集。
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Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould · 初版 1991 年
收录自作者在Natural history上发表的专栏This view of life中的随笔散文集。
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我很喜欢斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（Stephen Jay Gould）的书：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus
I enjoyed Stephen Jay Gould's books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus
我推荐斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德写的《Bully For Brontosaurus》（雷龙的得势）。这是一本90年代初左右的有趣读物，我是偶然收到这本书当礼物的，读得很过瘾。里面聊了聊科学普及及其意义，还有一些有趣的……
I recommend the book "Bully For Brontosaurus" by Stephen Jay Gould. It is a fun book from the early 90s or so, I got it as a random present, and enjoy reading it. It talks a bit about popularisation of science and what it means. Has some interesting…
……教科书行业的一种机制：比起准确性和实用性，它更鼓励把书编得和别的教材差不多。揭露这一点的经典文章是古尔德《Bully for Brontosaurus》一书中的《猎狐梗克隆蔓延事件》（The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone），该文梳理了教科书将始祖马（Hyracotherium*）比作猎狐梗的历史。尽管实际上大多数学生和作者根本对猎狐梗有多大毫无概念。而且这也不会……
…dynamics in the textbook industry that reward looking like other textbooks more than accuracy and usefulness. A classic essay showing this is "The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone" in Gould's book Bully for Brontosaurus" that traces the history of textbooks comparing Hyracotherium* to a fox terrier. This, despite the fact that most students and authors have absolutely no real idea how big a fox terrier is. And it wouldn't…
我挺喜欢你说的“反对派委员会”和“赞成派委员会”的想法，值得琢磨。我还特意去查了古尔德的“间断平衡论”（punctuated equilibrium）以便更好地理解。我读过古尔德的《Bully for Brontosaurus》，最初就是在那里听过这个词，后来把它的含义给忘了。在这里留个链接给其他人：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
I like your No Caucus vs the Yes Caucus idea. Interesting to think about. Had to look up Gould's punctuated equilibrium to understand it better. I read "Bully for Brontosaurus" by Gould, that's where I heard the term first but then forgotten its meaning. Leaving a link here for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium
你肯定会惊讶，有些毫无道理的话竟然能流传这么久！我最喜欢的例子记录在《Bully for Brontosaurus》里（想买的话可以看 https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Brontosaurus-Reflections-Natura... ），就是那篇《猎狐梗克隆蔓延事件》。近一个世纪以来，大家首先都会……
You would be astonished at how long phrases can last, with little sense behind it at all! My favorite example is documented in Bully for Brontosaurus (see https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Brontosaurus-Reflections-Natura... if you want to buy it) in the essay, "The case of the creeping fox terrier clone." For close to a century, the first thing that everyone…