World Dinosaur

Ah, the Dawkins/Pinker/Dennett gene

Posted from Laelaps 80 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

A little levity from John Cleese. [Hat-tip to John Wilkins] Read the comments on this post... (original story)

Where's Waldo?

Posted from Laelaps 131 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

Just for the hell of it (and because Jennifer did it first) here's a Wordle of my manuscript to date. I'll post new ones periodically to see if any evolution can be spotted as I continue to write. It's too big to fit here but click on through if you want to take a peek. Read the comments on thi... (original story)

Photo of the Day #338: Tyrannosaurus

Posted from Laelaps 113 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

The skull of a Tyrannosaurus at the AMNH. This is the actual skull that served as the model for the replica shown here yesterday. Photographed August 9th, 2008. Read the comments on this post... (original story)

A brief recommendation

Posted from Laelaps 158 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

The other night I finally picked up Adrian Desmond & James Moore's Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist and I have found it to be one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read (even though I am only about 130 pages in). I would have proceeded much further already but I started reading it ... (original story)

Church of England member says "Sorry, Chuck"

Posted from Laelaps 79 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

Yesterday a Church of England member announced that the institution owes Charles Darwin an apology. Writing directly to Darwin, the Rev Malcolm Brown said the church should be penitent "for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still.... (original story)

T.H. Huxley on the ignorance of biology

Posted from Laelaps 119 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

Popularizers of science are faced with a daunting problem when it comes to communicating their enthusiasm for nature; their audience doesn't speak the same language. I don't mean this to say that scientists are inherently poor communicators or all deliver jargon-packed lectures that extinguish inter... (original story)

S.J. Gould and Donald Johanson on Charlie Rose

Posted from Laelaps 109 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

I'm hard at work on my book today (I intend to finish the chapter on whales by the end of the weekend) but I won't leave you hanging. Here's a Charlie Rose episode from 1994 featuring both Stephen Jay Gould (starting at the 29:10 mark) and Donald Johanson (starting at 45:25, with a rather unfortunat... (original story)

Catching up on carbon

Posted from Laelaps 188 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

Over at Cocktail Party Physics Jennifer Ouellette has a two-part interview (1 and 2) with Eric Roston, author of the upcoming book The Carbon Age. It's definitely worth a look, and you can definitely expect to hear a bit more about The Carbon Age here in the not-too-distant future (~ne... (original story)

Prehistoric Nom Club

Posted from Laelaps 139 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

Ok, maybe the name isn't as catchy as Jurassic Fight Club but that's what it's all about; ancient critters ripping the guts out of other ancient critters and how we know they did it. I'll have a review of the first episode, featuring Majungasaurus, up next week, but in the meantime the History Chann... (original story)

One week left to help science students!

Posted from Laelaps 39 days ago
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There's now one week left before the end of this year's DonorsChoose Challenge here at ScienceBlogs, and those of us involved this year just got some good news. SEED has generously donated $15,000 (or $715 for each participating blogger) for us to distribute among the projects as we see fit. That m... (original story)

The Boneyard XX

Posted from Laelaps 196 days ago
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[Note: I believe I have all the entries that have been submitted for this edition of The Boneyard. If yours is missing please let me know asap and I will put it in immediately.] Early Saturday morning, before the sun burned off the last bit of moisture left by the previous night's rainstorm, my wif... (original story)

They're not dead, they're just mostly dead

Posted from Laelaps 196 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

I just got back from my weekend trip to Delaware. Friday night was absolutely miserable (cold, wet, half-cooked hot dogs for dinner, etc.), but by Saturday morning the weather had greatly improved. Unfortunately, however, a big storm had thrown off the rhythms of the up the annual horseshoe crab spa... (original story)

Teddy Roosevelt on human evolution

Posted from Laelaps 36 days ago
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As explained in Narratives of Human Evolution (and outlined in an early chapter of Bones of Contention), scientific descriptions of human evolution have often been shaped by a belief in progress and our* superiority. Even today, when descriptions are often more objective on the surface, there are ... (original story)

Photo of the Day #262: Fountain

Posted from Laelaps 188 days ago
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Victorians, cavewomen, and dinosaurs

Posted from Laelaps 89 days ago
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By way of checking up on this blog's traffic the other day, I came across the "Dawn of Time" web comic, which features a cavewoman and a friendly Triceratops (the first strip is here). Some of the scenes seem a little Edenic and humans never lived alongside non-avian dinosaurs, of course, but it is ... (original story)