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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 on November 1, 2010 by Bellevue Literary Press.
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Category: Books
It has been a little more than a month since I announced my forthcoming book on paleontology and evolution, Written in Stone, and I have been hard at work on the manuscript. As it stands now the book is...
Posted by Brian Switek at 2:52 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
After a number of false starts, I have finally started work on a "best of Laelaps" anthology. I am going to call it Tales From Deep Time, and it is going to be a sort of "b-sides" compilation that will...
Posted by Brian Switek at 11:50 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
A little while back I posted a little teaser on Twitter (or a "tweezer", as BrianR aptly called it) that I had some exciting news about my book. Now I can finally share it. I am proud to announce that...
Posted by Brian Switek at 5:09 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
As regular readers may (or may not) have noticed I have not been posting many updates about my book, still tentatively titled Life's Splendid Riddle, lately. The primary reason for that is because other projects have taken up much of...
Posted by Brian Switek at 9:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Great Book Project
A number of people have been asking me about the status of my book lately. I only wish I had something interesting to report! By mid-January I had completed about 100 pages, or roughly one third of the book....
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:50 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
An excerpt from the chapter on human evolution from my book-in-progress, Life's Splendid Riddle.
Posted by Brian Switek at 3:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History of Science
It is another busy day, and since I am again left with little time to write here I have decided to post another "follow-up" excerpt from my book.** A few days ago I mentioned that many paleontologists were skeptical that...
Posted by Brian Switek at 10:03 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History of Science
A porpoise, or "sea-hog", from Appletons' Annual Cycloaedia. I do not have much time to write today, so rather than type something from scratch I have decided to share an excerpt from my book (still in-progress).In my recent post...
Posted by Brian Switek at 1:19 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Great Book Project
Just because I have not been writing much here doesn't mean I have not been writing. This week I have devoted most of my energy to tidying up the chapter of my book on human evolution, and I am...
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Category: The Great Book Project
Earlier today I wrote a long rant about pop-science books (particularly mediocre ones), but I ended up scrapping it. After I ran out of hot air I hit a wall and did not want to post something that 1)...
Posted by Brian Switek at 4:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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