University to set up new 'dinosaur department' as popularity grows

dinosaurs? at a university? surely not! oh! I see.... courses, not faculty....

An easy credit 'bird course'...!

So they're going to be researching the dinosaurs of the LDP?

Well, everyone is right. Knowledge is a terrible thing. Learning something about animals from millions of years ago. . .why, that's wasted knowledge. We don't need no stinking dinosaurs. We've got the Flintstones, haven't we? (Or had. Are they still known?) There is nothing learning about fossils that will give us any insight into anything. So let's not do it. Let's put an end to classes like this. Someone might learn something that might give them an innovative idea that might lead to something big.

Here, now, is Be·heʹmoth, which I made as I made you.

It eats grass like a bull.

 Look at the strength in its hips

And the power in the muscles of its belly!

 It stiffens its tail like a cedar;

The sinews of its thighs are woven together.

 Its bones are tubes of copper;

Its limbs are like wrought-iron rods.

It ranks first among the works of God;

Only its Maker can approach it with his sword.

For the mountains produce food for it,

Where all the wild animals play.

It lies down under the lotus trees,

In the shelter of the reeds of the marsh.

The lotus trees cast their shadow on it,

And the poplars of the valley surround it.

If the river is turbulent, it does not panic.

It is confident, although the Jordan rushes against its mouth.

 Can anyone capture it while it is watching,

Or pierce its nose with a hook?

new 'dinosaur department' as popularity grows

among who? elementary school children?

A littel FYI on this as an Okayama resident. Okayama University of Science (岡山理科大学) is owned and operated by the Kakei family and group (加計学園) . If you remember, the head of the group was college roomantes with PM Abe and his dear friend. There was a whole scandal involving a new veterinary school in Kagawa a few years ago concerning them. Anyway, this whole department and funding is just another way for LDP to funnel money to the Kakei group in exchange for votes, construction contracts for their cronies, and amakudari positions. Kakei has been getting away with this for years: buying cheap public land, getting funding to build new schools and stocking them with foreign students (check out the story of 吉備国際大学). They run several schools propped up by LDP and somehow keep expanding even though the population of domestic students is falling.

dinosaurs? at a university? surely not! oh! I see.... courses, not faculty....

LOL　in the West. You can get a PHD in breaking dancing.

sounds like a cool program.

Cool. With all the dinosaur fosils they have found in Fukui and other places I can imagine that interest is growing.

plans to increase the number of lectures, opportunities for field work, and professors with the new department, as well as widening research to include areas such as biosciences in addition to geology and paleontology.

The origin of our planet and all its living beings is crucial to understand who we really are as a species, add that to mandatory basic Astronomy in school just like Chemistry and Physics and watch how 90% of what you see on tv etc. become extremely shallow and devoid of any meaning, entire industries would crumble overnight as people would finally be able to focus on what really matters and enjoy life and all its possibilities to the fullest.

Most people have absolutely no clue about where they even live in the Universe or the mind-boggling amazing things happening right now all around us.

Why call it Dinosaur department instead of Paleontology?