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The dog 8 my homework…
[TotH to Geaux Keegan] As we celebrate symmetry, we might send dusty birthday greetings to paleontologist Barnum Brown; he was born on this date in 1873 in Carbondale, Kansas. Brown (who was named...
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“Dinosaurs are nature’s special effects”*…
source The Lost World, released in 1925, was a silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel of the same name. Public Domain Review elaborates: Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured...
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“Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens”*…
A newly discovered dinosaur species that paleontologists have dubbed the “chicken from hell” is among the largest feathered dinosaurs ever found in North America. The 11-foot-long (3-meter-long),...
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“Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different....
Emily Graslie, host/writer of the educational YouTube series The Brain Scoop, has branched out to manage the wonderful Tumblr “…is not a dinosaur.” This blog is a result of an erroneous mistake; one...
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“The metabolic rate of geology is too slow for us to perceive it”*…
email readers click here for video Researchers modeled continental drift, going back 240 million years ago, on the scale of millimeters per year. It starts really slow and as if the supports give way...
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“In a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder”*…
An ancient bear skull sits on the floor of Hoyo Negro, a flooded cave on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula Some 13,000 years ago in what’s now the Yucatán Peninsula, a deep pit inside a cave became the...
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“We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions...
Methodist Camp Meeting, early 19th century. Source: Library of Congress The contrast between the cold logic of science and the emotionality of religion is a seemingly unshakable binary today. But...
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“The years teach much the days never know”*…
On the western flank of the Hoover Dam stands a little-understood monument, commissioned by the US Bureau of Reclamation when construction of the dam began in 01931. The most noticeable parts of this...
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“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”*…
In one fell swoop, Robert DePalma may have filled in the gap in the fossil record On August 5, 2013, I received an e-mail from a graduate student named Robert DePalma. I had never met DePalma, but...
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“The body is our general medium for having a world”*…
Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man The biggest component in any human, filling 61 percent of available space, is oxygen. It may seem a touch counterintuitive that we are almost two-thirds composed of an...
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“For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in...
A (small) part of the mechanism of The Clock of the Long Now [source] The 10,000-year clock is neither a ‘frightening’ ‘distraction,’ as its critics scorn, nor the ‘admirable objective’ its fans...
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“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always...
Your correspondent has to be away for a few days, so (Roughly) Daily will, for a time, be more roughly than daily… Regular service should resume on or around Thursday, August 10. Meantime, a little...
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“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools… The tool is not reality....
Medical researchers have found a network of fluid-filled spaces that they’d not really noticed before in connective tissue all over the body: below the skin’s surface; lining the digestive tract,...
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“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”*…
Further, in a way, to last Tuesday’s post, Vincent Ialenti explains how, as the treadmill of life speeds up, sublime outdoor spaces help us tap into timescales that are longer, slower, planetary… Our...
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“All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found”*…
We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. As Justin Germain explains, their contents may reshape how we understand the ancient world… We used to play this...
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