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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett
Laelaps is the blog of Brian Switek, a freelance science writer based in New Jersey. This blog frequently features his musings on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. Switek also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.
Switek's first book, Written in Stone, will be published next year by Bellevue Literary Press.
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October 31, 2007
Category: Paleontology
Funding is a difficult thing to obtain, but if you're a paleontologist with a published paper Paleonturology '07 is still accepting submissions. Dr. Vector, last year's winner for his paper "Postcranial Skeletal Pneumaticity in Sauropods and Its Implications for Mass...
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cats
What's Halloween with black cats? While the superstitious may dread a black cat crossing their paths, I live with one that follows me into the bathroom every morning to watch me shave (I don't know what she finds so...
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:26 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shameless Plug
Creature-features are fun to watch any time of the year, but they're an absolute must on Halloween. Although there are many excellent SF and horror films to choose from, this year I'm going to have to pick John Carpenter's The...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:14 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Idiocy
Looks like I've got an editorial war on my hands. Yesterday I announced that my refutation of Brad Pironciak's "Social Darwinism" piece was printed in the college newspaper, The Daily Targum, and now I've received an editorial reply from English...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:25 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dinosaurs
Happy Halloween, everyone! In searching for a somewhat frightening image (I already recently used Prestosuchus and Amphicyon), I recalled this photo of the AMNH Tyrannosaurus rex mount. Most of the photos I have of the reconstruction are of the...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:19 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2007
Category: Dinosaurs
The sculpted skull of the AMNH Deinonychus mount. For nearly as long as I can remember, artistic depictions of Deinonychus and related dromeosaurs have featured the dinosaur as a pack hunter, often pouncing on a hapless ornithischian like Tenontosaurus...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shameless Plug
Yesterday I wrote about an absolutely horrible opinion piece that appeared in the Rutgers newspaper The Daily Targum, the author suggesting that those he deemed stupid deserved to die. Although I gave a detailed response on this blog, I wanted...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
Most of the wildlife photographs I feature here were taken at zoos, but every once in a while I get a chance to photograph some indigenous creatures, White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) being the only relatively large mammal in the...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:09 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2007
Category: Books
It was bound to happen sooner or later; books were starting to overflow onto the floor and living room table, so a great bookcase reorganization needed to be undertaken. This is a snapshot during the carnage, my little cat...
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:01 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shameless Plug
Matt has put up the latest and greatest edition of The Boneyard, guiding visitors along a haunted fossil-picking tour of the best paleo-blogging from the past two weeks. Trust me, this one is not to be missed. I'm still looking...
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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