Starfish

Last week, tourists asked if they called starfish as starfish or as starfish. At the Grant Museum, our asteroids are marked as Starfish. Obviously, this confused name has led the child and adult to distinguish starfish from fish rather than echinoderm. Sometimes, we get similar inquiries from visitors and students that occur when scientific deflation encounters a common name. As another example, please have Paolo Viscardi, a colleague at Horniman Museum explain clearly that Apes is a monkey at once.

People walking along the beach noticed the fool who is throwing starfish in the sea. When asked why he is doing this, do-gooder replied that starfish was washed away by the tide and would die if it did not return to water at once. "But there are thousands of starfish on this beach, I can not hope to create a difference," a man who asked, "This is a sacred do-gooder response, but lifting the effect of starfish" Said. It will affect this! "To emphasize this, the practice moment throws starfish in the sea

There was a catastrophe that carried all the stars from the sea to the shore. The old man will always throw the starfish back to the sea. But in millions of such starfish it is clearly impossible for a single human to return each starfish to the sea. But the old man threw it back every day. One day, when he threw the starfish back to the sea, a single person walked past the old man. He asked the old man: "Why are you throwing them out? There is no difference, these starfish are increasing more and I can not save them all, how important is that?" He said: "This is different from what I saved."

The boy threw the starfish back to the sea. When an adult passes by, he sees the whole beach full of starfish. The boy was anxious to throw all the starfish back into the sea, but the man did not see any meaning. Adults said to the child: "You can not throw them back at all, they are too many, it is not a problem." The child pointed to the starfish in his hand and said.