Tomorrow is Evolution Sunday and I'll be presenting a lecture called "Unlikely Humans" to the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Morris County. Regular readers of this blog probably already know what I'm going to say, but I've tried to combine some old material and some things that I've only just learned, so I'm hoping that it'll be an interesting look at the evolutionary changes that have have resulted in our species attaining its present form.
Given that it's a ppt lecture there there isn't a good way to directly transfer what I'm going to say to this blog afterwards, but it might provide the basis for a future essay and I'll be sure to write about how everything went, if nothing else.
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I'd totally come heckle you if I didn't have to work on my evolution of bipedalism and Oldowan papers tomorrow. Have a great time with the presentation! I'd like to flip through the ppt sometime.
Curses. I was going to write something for the occasion, but time got away from me.
If you would really like to share your presentation, there is a website called slideshare.net which allows you to upload powerpoint presentations for free. I've never used it (I just learned about it at the blogging conference during the teaching session) so I don't know what restrictions there are if any. But it might be possible to upload your presentation onto that site and put a transcript on your blog which can be read while watching the presentation.
Good luck tomorrow!
Good luck! Makes me wish I wasn't so far away...
tional Park traveler! If you see Arvid Aase at Fossil Butte, tell him Matt Brown says hi. Take the ferry across Jenny Lake at Teton and hike up to the waterfall. If you can't get a room at Old Faithful (and really you must), have dinner, spend the evening hanging out, watching the geyser, and having a Scotch, then sleep in your car in the parking lot. The bathrooms in the Lodge are in the hallways, that includes the showers.