Online ornithology 9 Sep 2009 One or another feed notification led me to this wonderful online course in ornithology by Gary Richison at Eastern Kentucky University. I just spent a nice 30 minutes reading just the first lecture. Fantastic. Go check it out. Biology Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution Science Species and systematics Systematics
Evolution Browsing through the Philosophical Transactions on species and generation 30 Aug 2008 One of the major events in the history of science was the foundation of a number of published communications, so that the results of observation and research could be relatively quickly shared amongst scholars, and one of the first of these was the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Asia’s empty forests 1 Sep 2008 The Annotated Budak has an absolutely wonderful post on megafauna, hominid impacts, biodiversity and biogeography up. Go read it immediately. Read More
Epistemology Plantinga’s EAAN revisited 3 Mar 20123 Mar 2012 Blogs are places where one tosses out a hastily constructed piece of argument, or commentary, and not where one slowly and thoughtfully writes something that one will eventually earn an income from (unless you are PZ Myers). So when I responded to Plantinga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, I did so… Read More
I can’t be bothered to check it, but are black swans mentioned? If not, why are you interested in the course?