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Early Morning Random Musings

1. RE: Asian Carp as an Invasive Species
The article linked below is the announcement of a winner in the competition called "Carp Tank".  Apparently, there is a species of fish known as Asian Carp that... "are now only about 50 miles away from the Great Lake. Scientists are concerned that the voracious fish would out-compete native and desired Great Lakes fish species, causing an ecological and economic calamity." 
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/03/27/invasive-asian-carp-innovators-carp-tank-prize/463650002/
I just found this "funny" because if you remove the word "carp" from the article, it sounds a lot like the conversations from a couple of decades ago around my old neighborhood.
Are scientists racists?

2. Makkat Bechorot
It's somewhat of an exception that the male form of a Hebrew word takes on the female suffix when converted to plural (OT instead of IM). And it always bothered me when it came to the 10th Plague in Egypt - The Plague of the First Born.
Until this year.
Because now I have a first-born 12-year old daughter.
And that's probably what the plague really was.

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