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Musings on evolution, the fossil record, and our place in nature
Laelaps is the blog of freelance science writer Brian Switek. This blog frequently features his musings on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. Switek also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking, and he is a research associate at the New Jersey State Museum.
January 31, 2008
Category: Evolution
A little more than two years ago, I asked the woman who is now my wife to marry me as snow began to fall in Central Park. The ruse I employed to get her out to the spot was...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:09 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
Two grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) playing in a pool at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2008
Category: Paleontology
Update: Darren has now posted a more detailed summary of this controversy. Other bloggers will likely weigh-in on the subject throughout the day, and I'll soon have something up on why the issue has gotten to the point of appearing...
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating Science
"Evolution Sunday" is fast approaching, and even though it's still about 2 weeks off I thought I'd just put up a note that I'll be speaking to the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Morris County for the event. My talk...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:38 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating Science
Just in case any of you haven't heard yet, tomorrow night the Science Communication Consortium is going to hold its next meeting on "emerging media outlets" & science communication. The SCC was formed by my fellow Scibling Kate (among others),...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dinosaurs
If you're going to be in the Rockford, Illinois area (or within a reasonable distance of it) on March 1st and 2nd, the Burpee Museum is going to be host to a paleo-festival that you won't want to miss out...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:55 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Idiocy
Over at Wired, Thomas Hayden kicks off his brief piece "Why Things Suck: Science" with the following nugget (what it's a nugget of, I'll leave up to you); Morality, spirituality, the meaning of life -- science doesn't handle those issues...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: College
When I first started attending Rutgers in the fall of 2001, the football coach had to come and practically beg the incoming freshmen to come to a football game. Promises of free t-shirts and plenty of seating were doled out...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:42 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Mammals
The black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) is one of two species of ruffed lemur (Varecia sp.), although there may be as many as three subspecies of the black-and-white variety. Like many other lemur species, the black-and-white ruffed lemur is...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:25 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
I started in on The Structure of Evolutionary Theory last night and got about 32 pages in, although I hope to cover more ground today. I've been especially fixated upon a brief paragraph involving the interplay of archetypes and...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
