Couple of organismic blogs 20 Jun 2007 No! Not orgasmic! [There, that should bump up the hits] You all know, of course, the inestimable Darren Naish and his wonderful blog Tetrapod Zoology. What? You don’t? Go there immediately and come back when you’ve read it all, and the old site too. [Fifteen days later] So, I wanted to mention a similar blog, by a student working on spider systematics (way cool), name of Christopher Taylor, called Catalogue of Organisms. In this 300th anniversary of the first real such catelogue by Linnaeus, that’s a way cool title. And of course you have an almost endless supply of cool material, even if you stick at high taxonomic levels. And he’s being controversial too, with a shamelessly populist post on which dinosaurs are coolest or most ferocious (like those “Could Superman get Beat Up by Spiderman?” arguments nerds have, only with real beasties). Go visit. Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution General Science Species and systematics
Evolution Evolution quotes 31 May 2010 Evolution itself, it must be remembered, does not necessarily mean, applied to society, the movement of man to a desirable goal. It is a neutral, scientific conception, compatible either with optimism or with pessimism. According to different estimates it may appear to be a cruel sentence or a guarantee of… Read More
Evolution Genesis 2 rewritten 5 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 It is also likely that if God re-issued Genesis 2, he’d do it as a comic strip like this. Oops I forgot to link it… fixed now. Read More
General Science Thoughts on the periodic table 4 Feb 2010 Eric Scerri has written the definitive history of Mendele’ev’s periodic table and how it came to be formulated. He also has a paper in which he proposes a new formulation, based on historical considerations of what it was that Mendele’ev was trying to do, and on more theoretical considerations of… Read More
Chris, sorry. One eight legged beasty is pretty much the same as another to my untutored eyes. Darren, not on your own blog, so far as I can recall 😉
Thank you for your kind words. Though I feel honour-bound to point out that I don’t work on spiders, but harvestmen. There’s whole worlds of arachnids beyond spiders ;-).