9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for April 21, 2002

Transcript:

Juliette: "Anbody will tell you..." Juliette: "...this is no way to begin a lecture." Juliette: "During his voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, Darwin was greatly impressed by the diversity yet congruity among South America's flora and fauna, and with their geological forebears. He came to see these links as revelations into the origin of the species...'that mystery of mysteries,' he wrote." Student: "I don't, like, get it." Juliette: "When he went on the ship and, like, say the animals, he was, like, whoa!...Then he thought about it and was, like, wow!" Student: "Kewl." Juliette: "And for this I got tenure."