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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
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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August 31, 2008
Category: Art
When I wrote my essay on violent interactions between prehistoric monsters in art, I thought I had touched on something intriguing. I penned a proposal for a more focused article on the topic and sent it out to magazines...
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Category: Dinosaurs
Henry de la Beche's "Duria Antiquior," an image of the carnage along the shores of ancient Dorset. As I've been reading Jane Davidson's A History of Paleontology Illustration I have been thinking about my favorite paleo artists. Late at...
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:04 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
I have spent most of today finishing up Jane Davidson's A History of Paleontology Illustration (a review of which I intend on will writing up shortly), but I took a quick break to blow a few bucks at the Cranbury...
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Category: Photography
Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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August 30, 2008
Category: Cats
I had been meaning to post these pictures for a while, but I kept forgetting until now. Both are of Huxley, who was the first "foster cat" of the summer and found a good home;...
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:32 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
My wife and I reading while dinner cooks on the fire. Taken at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware this past May. So much work to do, so little time. The summer whizzed by at a rate faster than I...
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Category: Cats
An Amur tiger, (Panthera tigris altaica), photographed at the Bronx Zoo....
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August 29, 2008
Category: Creationism
As far as my vote in the upcoming election goes, John McCain's selection of Alaska governor Sarah Palin makes no difference to me. I'm voting for Barack Obama. What everyone is all a-twitter about on the science blogosphere, however, is...
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:53 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dinosaurs
Just in case you haven't had enough of the "classic" (vintage?) Eric Boardman & Gary Owens dinosaur documentaries, here's the sequel to "More Dinosaurs" called "Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs."...
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Category: Inverts
A horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), photographed at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware....
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