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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

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melittle.jpg 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

Book Progress #11a

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...

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Photo of the Day #234: Laughing Gull

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

O.C. Marsh and the Nevada Giant

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...

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The theropods have been released!

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...

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Footprint Fraud in South America

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...

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Photo of the Day #233: Whelk egg cases

Category: Inverts

Photographed May 17, 2008 at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....

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May 29, 2008

Catching up on carbon

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...

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SVP issues a decision on Aetogate

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...

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Book Progress #11

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...

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The Boneyard XXI coming June 7th

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...

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