The egg came first. Mutations happen in the production of gametes, or sex cells, so a proto-chicken would have produced a slightly mutated egg that turned out to be a chicken.

The Romans didn’t use base 12. Roman numerals aren’t a positional system.

I’ve never heard of crossing your fingers like that to indicate 10.

Mendel’s experiments are a lot easier to recreate on your own than Darwin’s observations at Galapagos. And that’s what good science is all about.

You can do it yourself and see it firsthand. You can breed plants and artificially select the traits you want to see in future generations.

Start weighing your pasta. You’ll never cook too much again.

You left out some important context, that she followed that up with “you people are next.”