No dino pee 5 Jun 2009 Tom Holtz, palentologist at the University of Maryland, gives a guarded review for Land of the Lost at National Geographic‘s website. The summary? No pee, but feathers. Evolution Humor
Humor Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must sing, badly 12 Dec 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PWqFowq-4] Read More
Education Ruminations in Oxford 19 May 2010 The conference proceeds apace. I have met some very nice and interesting people: Pat Churchland, Owen Flanagan, Ara Norenzayan, whose paper I ineffectually commented upon, Robin Dunbar, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong, Tony Coady, Janet Radcliffe-Richards, and a number of people who I previously knew but am pleased to reacquaint myself with. One… Read More
Evolution The evolution of reduced virulence 9 Jun 2008 Mystery Rays from Outer Space has a good essay on the evolution of spumaviruses (“foamy viruses”) which are cytologically fatal in the lab, but which are latent in most body cell types in the nonhuman species they inhabit. It turns out that they have evolved over a long time to… Read More