Dissecting a flying pterothingy 26 Mar 2009 It’s true! Dinosaurs still exist. John Conway dissected a Rhamphorhyncus, and drew what he saw, here. I had “dinosaur” in the title but as Chris points out, that’s a bad error, like calling a mammal a turtle. Damn, I’m not having much luck. Not a pteranodon then… Evolution Humor Species and systematics
Evolution Social networking is not new 26 May 2009 John Hawks mentioned a lovely article in the New York Times, interviewing an anthropologist, Pauline Wiessner, who worked with the !Kung bushmen in the Kalahari. She notes that they maintain social relationships across many hundreds (and in her case, when they found a satellite phone, thousands!) of kilometres. This means… Read More
Biology Short sharp definitions 11 Aug 2010 Over on Twitter, Waterstones bookshops are running a competition to define philosophy in 100 characters. My definitions are below, but it got me thinking. Einstein, I think, said that if you can’t explain it in simple words you don’t understand it, and so I wonder if we can do this… Read More