Writing Your Worldview: Biases and Beyond

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

This past weekend, an interesting thread made its way through Twitter. The Ask an Entomologist account (@BugQuestions) shared the history of our understanding of queen bees.

Queen bees? Yep, and the thread was more insightful than you’d guess.

Turns out that for thousands of years, queen bees were known as king bees due to sexism. Aristotle’s The History of Animals was the defacto biology “textbook” until the 1600s, and as the thread expla...