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Brian Switek is a science writer who focuses on paleontology, evolution, and the history of science. He also blogs for Smithsonian magazine's Dinosaur Tracking.
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May 31, 2008
Category: Administrative
"Do we really need another book about evolution?" I ask myself this question almost every day as I pore over the stacks of books and papers cluttering my apartment, the masses of literature forming a sort of scientific strata. It...
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:24 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Birds
Even though I didn't frame this laughing gull (Larus atricilla) exactly right I still think that this is a pretty cool picture. Photographed May 17, 2008 at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....
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May 30, 2008
Category: Mammals
The probable role of fossils in giving rise to myths and legends has been recognized since the 19th century, but it has only been recently that the connection between giant bones & footprints and mythology has been appreciated as a...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dinosaurs
Finding old technical literature can be maddeningly difficult. There are many important papers that are not readily available as journals have gone under or access to those publications is limited despite the research being so old that copyright no longer...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Like rotting, festering zombies, some creationist tricks just won't die. Even though every case of supposed "human tracks" found near dinosaur tracks in Mesozoic rock that I can think of has been disproved (the tracks often being little more than...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:06 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Inverts
Photographed May 17, 2008 at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2008
Category: Books
Over at Cocktail Party Physics Jennifer Ouellette has a two-part interview (1 and 2) with Eric Roston, author of the upcoming book The Carbon Age. It's definitely worth a look, and you can definitely expect to hear a bit more...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Paleontology
Over the past several months many people (myself included) have been anxiously awaiting the ruling of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology ethics committee on the controversy informally known as Aetogate, and on May 23 the SVP committee released their decision...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:43 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Even though my brain was a bit heat- and math-addled by the time I got home from class last night (I spent all day at a baseball game the organization I work for took us out to and then spent...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Paleontology
The next edition of the Boneyard will go up on June 7th at The Flying Trilobite. Rumor has it that it may be a special paleo-art-themed edition, although I'll post more details as we approach June 7th. Also, not all...
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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