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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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June 30, 2008
Category: History of Science
[Note:] I realized I posted this entry very recently, only three months prior to today, but since it is the anniversary of the Oxford debate/lectures I thought it would be fitting to throw this entry up again (with a few...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cats
Last week Ed blogged about a new PLoS paper implicating canine distemper, parasites, and climate changes in the severe reductions in lion some lion populations seen during the last 15 years in Africa. Coincidentally, the PBS show Nature featured...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Shameless Plug
I'm not much one for beauty tips or fashion gossip. Give me a t-shirt with something geeky on it and a pair of jeans and I'm happy, but delving into the depths of fashion history can have its rewards. At...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Of the few courses of value I have enrolled in while at Rutgers, one of my most favorite was the paleontology class taught by William Gallagher from the NJ State Museum (which, coincidentally, has just re-opened!). Much of the course...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:05 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
A few months ago I was enjoying a pleasant evening with a few friends when the topic of evolution came up, more specifically the work of Stephen Jay Gould. One of the people in the room asked "Who's he?" and...
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:26 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cats
An Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed in the summer of 2007 at the Bronx zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:27 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2008
Category: Communicating Science
Over at the Other 95% Kevin Z picks up where I left off on high school science education, publishing science books, and the barriers that he and I both face in our quest to become science writers (among other things)....
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:48 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Movies
To put it mildly, this summer's crop of films has been a disappointment. Out of the handful of films I've seen I leave most going "Eh, it was alright," picking over the story I just saw to find something...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Inverts
The picked-over remains of a horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), the tracks around it being a dead giveaway as to who enjoyed a breakfast of rotting chelicerate. Photographed on May 17, 2008 at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2008
Category: Technology
When I think of many of the robots that appear in Hollywood films and occasionally pop up in segments on news magazines I can't help but notice how many of them look like people. There seems to be some...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:18 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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