- Check out my article on the atmosphere and evolution, "The History of Air", over at Smithsonian.
- The Raleigh News & Observer has a brief interview with me (conducted by DeLene Beeland) on paleontology, evolution, and my forthcoming book Written in Stone. (Check out the comments, too - I already have fundamentalists praying for me *headdesk*)
- The next time you use a latrine in Peru, watch out for two-toed sloths
- Cool new science blog centered around Yale museum specimens - The Life You (And I) Never Knew
- Welcome another paleo blog to the blogohedron - March of the Fossil Penguins
- Director Ridley Scott says that the forthcoming ALIEN prequel will center around the story of the "Space Jockey"
- Very cool video - shockwaves propagating through the eruption cloud of Eyjafjallajökull!
- The Fossil of the Week, from the Museum of the Earth
- A great interview with nonfiction/geo writer John McPhee
- A new species of Pliopithecus found in a rubbish dump in Spain
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You get people who pray for you; I just get the ones who urge me to be open-minded (to the possibility that, say, the machine made from old microwave parts in some guy's garage will really let us travel to the stars!).
Oooh, ooh, I know — the uninformed one!
[sigh]
"I'll pray for you" is just the fundie way of giving someone the finger.
Alien prequel! Cool. Hope there's no damn humans in it. Humans ruin the Jurassic Park series, too. Wish all the humans, especially the annoying kids, would just get eaten in the first couple minutes, and the dinos get on with doing their thing.
I've always wondered about the fact that they're rather non-specific about what outcome they're hoping for from said praying...
I just respond, Thank you (usually). Or if I'm snarky I'll ask what for, and depending on what they tell me I usually get to point out they've just made a judgment about my personal beliefs without even the courtesy of asking me about them. "I'll take Wrong Assumptions for a 1,000, Alex". Or if I'm just cranky, I'll take them to task for judging.
Brian -
I looked up your blog after seeing the N&O article. Enjoyed the posts I've read so far. I think I'll get your book as well (or at least look for it in the library :)). If you've not visited Raleigh's natural history museum before make sure to stop in if you're in town. It's really a gem for our fair city.
Down here when folks pray for you it's always with the best intentions!
John - Thanks for the comment, and I am glad you have been enjoying the blog. The book won't be out until November, but I hope you give it a look when it comes out. :)
And I did have the chance to visit the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences last January. The tour was a bit of a whirlwind (I wish I had more time to explore!), but it was lovely, and it was certainly nice to poke around in the collections for a bit. Maybe, when the book comes out, I will organize a talk down there and visit again.