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Almost at 60 below for Greenland. The Arctic is still charging up. I'm getting out of this 'doom and gloom' talk. We all want happy thoughts of a nice mild winter. Straight talk for the winter: 2016 was the combination of the peaks of [...]
Everybody(*) knows that the turiasaurian sauropod Moabosaurus has bifurcated cervical ribs: it was all anyone was talking about back when that animal was described (Britt et al. 2017). We’ve featured the best rib here before, and here it is again: [...]
Nothing much had changed in the last 10 years or so, and now it is an explosion.Just a few months ago, my large server threw a disk drive, and I got a magnetic one (big mistake). Then my huge motherboard started blinking out. The mini PC at [...]
Second out of three posts for October fossil discoveries - October was a good month for several reasons, despite getting covid (for the second time) at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP).
Starting in late [...]
Spinosaurus (Tea Cunningham)
A punto de terminar el mes, aquí está nuestra ronda habitual de ilustraciones dinosaurianas que reúne en esta ocasión a diferentes artistas con distintas visiones de la fauna del pasado. Así, encontramos [...]
I’ve sent the following letter to the Public Inquiry, noting the significant and repeated inconsistencies between what Vallance has recently testified about the events in mid-March 2020, and what the contemporaneous documentary evidence of that [...]
Geology in Pop Culture
Released in 1990, The Rescuers Down Under continues the escapades started in 1977's The Rescuers. However, in this adventure our favorite mice, Bernard and Bianca, travel down to the Australian outback (not the [...]
Geology in Pop Culture: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
When I started preparing my talk for the 2023 annual Geological Society of America conference (Finding Hidden Geological Lessons in the Media Around Us), I knew that I wanted to talk about [...]
Ayer se celebró un aniversario que ha pasado muy desapercibido para la mayor parte del público: hace 40 años y un par de días salió a la venta El Color de la Magia, la primera novela del MundoDisco, de Terry Pratchett.Ese aniversario [...]
It is in the public interest to regulate new and emerging technologies to reduce the harm they create. Broad policies can be set by law, but the detailed rules must be left to experts in administrative