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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Maybe because it's about a nerdy/geeky topic? There was a similar little tizzy when it was announced that Angelina Jolie was planning to play Cleopatra for a film. Some people thought the actress portraying Cleo should be "more ethnic" than Jolie.
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I volunteer only on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the science museum in the dinosaur exhibit while I'm home for the holidays. Well, it's an insect, spider, and parasite exhibit, right next to the dinosaur exhibit. I brought some bugs, parasites (mostly worms/nematodes) to talk about. My presentation went really well, except when I accidentally scared a little boy.
We had a nice crowd and people asked a lot of questions, which I answered to the best of my knowledge. I had slides, and a cool PPT presentation. Last weekend, I was talking about beetle mites, which I'm going to talk more about this weekend. They're also known as oribatids. Today, they're usually found on plants, but the problem with them is they serve as intermediate hosts to tapeworms (which I talked a lot about and showed). That's what scared the little boy. I felt so bad. He got scared because someone asked me can humans get infected with them. I just told them that probably in third world countries, they can sometimes cause convulsions and death in humans, with heavy infections. I was just telling them that mite-borne tapeworms could have possibly affected herbivorous dinosaurs, but I wasn't sure if they experienced such severe reactions. I haven't seen it in many reptiles today, so it's possible that it could have been similar with dinosaurs.