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A New Protorosaur from the Middle Triassic of China
Fraser, N. C., Rieppel, O., and L. Chun. 2013. A long-snouted protorosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1120-1126...
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Serious case of camping desire
There was a time when the Phactors were big time campers, but then life got in the way. Now with retirement looming the time is coming when we may be able to resume our camping, but our bones are no...
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У нас новый русский эксперимент. Большинство психолингвистов занимаются английского. Мы хотим узнать большо об остальних. Не волнуйтесь -- я не сам переводил эксперимент. Переводил он настоящий...
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A New Semionotiform Fish from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Utah
Gibson, S. Z. 2013. A new hump-backed ginglymodian fish (Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of southeastern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1037-1050....
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No such thing as typical meets non-observers
In trying to teach students about floral parts and the diversity of ways they get put together you quickly come to understand that there is no such thing as a typical flower. Now, as always, patient...
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Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a...
Chemistry is - in the true sense - the central science, reaching inside every aspect of our lives (Image: Marquette University)Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) is celebrating 90 years of its...
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MIT and chemistry: What gives?
A reference to pioneering physical organic chemist Jack Roberts in a C&EN article again brought the following question to my mind: Why has MIT, over several decades, managed to lose some of the...
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New Information on the Temnospondyl Calamops paludosus from the Upper...
Sues, H.-D., and R. R. Schoch. 2013. Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Calamops paludosus (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli) from the Triassic of the Newark Basin, Pennsylvania. Journal of...
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Morphological and Biomechanical Disparity of Crocodile-line Archosaurs...
This article is open access. I'm assuming that in using 'crurotarsan' they are using Paul Sereno's original definition and not the clade including Avemetatarsalia as recovered by Nesbitt (2011)....
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A new role for next-gen sequencing in our research
Last night the post-doc told me that he expects to have leftover sequencing capacity in the next big run, and asked if I know of any old material that should be sequenced. After a bit of discussion we...
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For Diguise, Female Squid Turn On Fake Testes
The best way to stay out of trouble, if you're a shimmery, color-changing little squid, might be to paint on some pretend testes. Scientists have found that certain female squid can switch on and off...
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Fun galore!
Today we'll have some fun! If you have some free time, stop by and join the fun! It's harvest season and it's how we get our data. Last week the above ground portions of this experiment were...
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Language and Memory Redux
One week only: If you did not do our Language and Memory task when it was running earlier this year, now is your chance. We just re-launched it to collect some additional data. I expect we'll have...
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A new way to make money from researchers?
Basically, you give World Biomedical Frontiers $38 and they list your paper's Abstract on their website along with whatever supplementary explanation of the work you provide. I gather that...
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TMI Friday: Don't have a cow man !
We begin this week's TMI Friday with a crime scene. Let us examine the scene of the crime, and try to work out what happened. The incident occurred on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The body of a farmer...
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Paleoecology of the Early Triassic Dinwoody Formation: Insights on Recovery...
Hofmann, R., Hautmann, M. and H. Bucher. 2013. A New Paleoecological Look at the Dinwoody Formation (Lower Triassic, Western USA): Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Controls on Ecosystem Recovery After the...
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It takes a bigot to love a bigot
How else can you explain Ted Cruise? He wants another 100 guys like the late Jesse Helms in congress. Sadly stuff like will not end his political career, but how can anyone even in the GnOPe think...
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Texas and textbooks
Oh, Texas, don’t ever…evolveBy CuttlefishThe bible is my textbook; It’s the only one I need It’s got all the information That a person ought to read Any open-minded scientist Would certainly concede...
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Yesterday's page views = 666! Does this mean anything?
Nah! But today is Friday the 13th! Don't you just love coincidences?
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Friday the 13th in science
posted by @ulaulaman about #superstitions #friday13th #mathematics #economics #socialscience Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were...
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