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With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop. But he gets out sometimes, and picks up litter and pursues exotic lizards across the British countryside, aiming all the while to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He also messes around with pterosaurs, swimming giraffes, British big cats and stuff like that. He has given up on the stupid idea of being a dedicated academic and ekes out a living as a technical consultant, editor and author. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here. PLEASE NOTE: I am now completely unable to keep up with email correspondence, due to sheer volume and to time constraints. I do my best to respond to all queries and requests, but please don't be offended if I fail to reply.
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The Godzilla Effect
Category: speculative zoology
Posted on: February 15, 2007 8:02 AM, by Darren Naish
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Cool!
Blogging about random numbers can do that too!
Posted by: Dave Munger | February 15, 2007 9:40 AM
All hail BoingBoing! Functionally equivalent to getting slashdotted.
Posted by: dr.hypercube | February 15, 2007 10:29 AM
And I didn't even bother to read this article properly... Having learned about your blog via pharyngula, it soon became my favorite biology blog. Pharyngula is a nice hub, leading to "real content" like what you present here, but what I really love to read are in-depth articles instead of small snack-bits. And this is why I like your blog.
So please don't get all light on us with Godzilla and such. I know, the odd weired article has to be published too but what I like most are articles describing real stories on real-life tetrapoda. :)
Posted by: haffax | February 16, 2007 9:22 PM