Thursday, April 03, 2008

For Your Edification.

Even the professionals get things wrong sometimes. Just ask 11 year-old Kenton Stufflebeam (get a load of the name on that kid!) who recently found a mistake on a visit to the Smithsonian. He saw a display that was erroneously tagged with "Precambrian Era". *snort* (Which is a supereon, composed of eons, which are in turn made up of eras, then periods, then epochs... duh) He wrote a note and the museum contacted him later admitting to the 27 year-old error.

Don't worry dude, 5th grade may seem rough but I'm sure things will start picking up when you hit high school. Wait, that's where meticulous attention to details and avid interest in geology semantics really pays off, right?

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