Brian Switek is an ecology & evolution student at Rutgers University.
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May 16, 2008
Category: Books
During the past two weeks I've read a number of books, but few of them have been as enjoyable as those written by Martin Rudwick (The Meaning of Fossils) and David Quammen (The Boilerplate Rhino). Serendipitously, there are new articles...
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Category: Administrative
I'm sorry to say that things with Rutgers are still a mess, but the spring semester is over and now I've got about three months to work on some of my projects. There's a lot I want to do, but...
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Category: Cats
A snow leopard pair (Panthera uncia), photographed at the Bronx zoo in 2006. I've been lucky enough to get a few halfway-decent photographs of snow leopards during my regular visits to the Bronx zoo, but they're absolute rubbish compared...
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Category: Mammals
A white nosed coati (or pizote, Nasua narica), photographed last year at the Philadelphia Zoo....
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May 15, 2008
Category: Dinosaurs
As regular readers of this blog know, I have an extreme affinity for museums and always welcome the news of a long-lost specimen that was locked away in storage turning out to be something new and significant. In 2006...
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Category: Administrative
I just realized something; I'm not going to be able to put up the special edition of The Boneyard #20 this Saturday as planned. Being that I'll be somewhere along the shores of Delaware trying to photograph some horseshoe crabs...
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Category: Books
Columbia University Press is presently having it's "White Sale" until May 31, and there's a lot of good books going on sale for cheap. The "Science" section has some particularly good stuff, like Slotten's The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The...
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Category: Paleontology
Later today I'll be posting the next installment of my series of interviews with paleontologists, this time asking Mike Taylor to tell us a little about PhyloCode, strange sauropods, and the present "Aetogate" controversy (just to start). It's another long,...
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Category: Mammals
A greater mouse deer (Tragulus napu), photographed last year at the National Zoo. [Note]: My brand new Nikon D60 arrived yesterday, so I'll soon have some brand new images to use for this daily photo post....
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May 14, 2008
Category: Administrative
I just finished the last exam of the semester, but rather than being relieved I am seriously pissed off. I'm not going to divulge the details of the situation just yet, but for now I'll just say that once again...
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