Photo of the Day #507: California sea lion
Category: Mammals
A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:49 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Laelaps
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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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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February 28, 2009
February 27, 2009
The Tragedy of Saartje Baartman
Category: History of Science
The "Hottentot Venus", drawn from a wax cast made in Paris. From The Human Race. On December 31, 1816 Saartje Baartman died in Paris. She had been ill for three days, perhaps stricken with smallpox, before she and her...
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thank you!
Category: Administrative
Many thanks to everyone who wished me a happy 26th birthday yesterday. I was surprised by the number of people who did, in fact, and I was glad to receive the kind greetings of so many friends. Special thanks are...
Posted by Brian Switek at 12:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #506: Japanese macaque
Category: Mammals
A Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata), photographed at the Central Park Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:19 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Photo of the Day #505: Red wolf
Category: Mammals
A red wolf (Canis lupus rufus), photographed at the North Carolina Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 7:32 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well now I just feel like a horse's ass
Category: Administrative
So there I was, vainly searching Amazon.com to see if a subscription to this blog is available on Kindle (it appears not), when I was hit between the eyes by something unexpected. A few of you may recall that a...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:14 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
March of the mastodons
Category: Art
The skull of Gomphotherium, from Barbour's paper. Regular readers of this blog are well aware that the "March of Progress", a depiction of the single-file evolution of humans from an ape ancestor, is a biological bugbear that refuses to...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #504: North American river otter
Category: Mammals
A North American river otter (Lontra canadensis), photographed at the Turtleback Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 6:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
A struggling student of nature
Category: Blogging
Am I a scientist? It seems like a simple question requiring little more than a "yes" or "no", yet I am at a loss as to how to answer it. Even though I have been called a scientist by people...
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:02 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Photo of the Day #503: Great horned owl
Category: Birds
A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), photographed at the Turtleback Zoo....
Posted by Brian Switek at 8:09 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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