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Columbia researchers are conducting a major survey to measure the presence of urban ticks and how humans respond to
I lived through a lot of this, and I looked it up as an engineer doing tunnels and such. The same issue that hit Calgary, has been hitting northern bridges. I have a feeling they will have to replace the whole water [...]
ReferenceThis is a hoot. Apparently, ignorant people have been spraying all over the place. Now, other similar people are attempting to stop it, using a weird sort of influencer physics.Counterintuitively, the more [...]
I'm sure there's a heat wave hiding in there
If you want to find the paleontology and anatomy videos that Mike and I have done (plus one video about open access), they have their own sidebar page now, for your convenience and for our own. It’s, uh, just to the right of where your eyes are [...]
Ha, this was a spaceship designed by a bureaucracy, that killed whistlers. The other alternative is a wacky nut job. However, they were allowed to blow things up, and came out better. I predict that [...]
These horn coral fossils pictured above were known as Breviphrentis nitida
(Hall, 1876). They were found in the Jeffersonville Limestone of the Falls
of the Ohio, Clark
County, Indiana USA. The fossils date to the Devonian Period. Included
[...]
My friend and frequent collaborator (one, two, three) Tito Aureliano invited me to give a talk on his YouTube channel, I suggested pneumaticity and gigantism, and here we are. There’s a decently lengthy Q&A, moderated by Tito, after the talk [...]
"ruins of some ancient city built of marble and porphyry" (Joseph Nicollet, 1843).
South Dakota east of the Missouri River is nearly flat, and covered in corn, soybeans and sunflowers. Most of us race across, blind to its subtleties, for example [...]
Early this morning, the Chang’e 6 return capsule safely landed back to Earth with its precious cargo of about 2 kg of brand new lunar soils and rock chips! And on top of that, these samples are incredibly exciting as … Continue reading →