Category: General Science
For my sins, I was once a public relations guy, for an educational institution, and I held positions roughly in that domain (e.g., as public communications manager for a medical research institute, although I managed the means not the...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 10:41 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Evolution
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...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 11:43 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Kangaroo Island is a largish island off the coast of South Australia, famous for its wildlife and food. It also has some of the best preserved Ediacaran Cambrian fossils, on a par with the famous Burgess Shale. A report...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 11:04 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Humor
I was a graphic artist cum typesetter for 25 years. So I know that Times New Roman and Arial are not proper fonts, but abominations foisted upon the unsuspecting world by the Evil Empire. Nevertheless, this is a funny video:...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 10:24 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biodiversity
Ghana News asks why there's been no Australian-African summits held? Good question. Conservation Bytes discusses and links to the classic "Biodiversity Hotspot" paper. It's still a disputed notion. A forthcoming paper in PNAS (heh. You said "pnas") discusses a...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 2:37 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Biodiversity
A few doors down from my office there's a guy with a ready laugh and a shared love of Macintoshes named Dom Hyde, a philosopher who works on the logic of vagueness among other things. He's also very active...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 1:37 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Book
In addition to Fuller's Science versus Religion, I also received my copy of Phil Dowe's Galileo, Darwin and Hawking last week, and today arrives Roy Davies' The Darwin Conspiracy (thanks, Roy; I will be as even handed as I...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 1:33 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Humor
Certain nations who shall remain nameless have been doing a fair bit of skiting about how well they've done. So I thought I'd do a bit of number crunching. Of course it isn't completed (or is it?) but using...
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Posted by John S. Wilkins at 7:10 AM • 39 Comments •