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The Terrestrial Fauna of Barrow Island
Nihara R. Gunawardene, Jonathan D. Majer, Christopher K. Taylor & Mark S. Harvey (eds) 2013. The Terrestrial Invertebrate Fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western...
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The gifs that keep on giffing
These are weirdly strange gifs, but fun. They are a form of animation that has been around for quite some time. When TPP was a kid, his younger sister got a bunch of kiddie phonograph records of...
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Galaxy Formation in the Cosmic Web
The research group I work with has made a fantastic poster about how galaxies form in the cosmic web and how we use computer simulations to understand such a complex process. We made the poster as a...
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Redescription of "Paleorhinus" (Phytosauria) Specimens from Germany
Butler, R. J., Rauhut, O. W. M., Stocker, M. R., and R. Bronowicz. 2013. Redescription of the phytosaurs Paleorhinus (‘Francosuchus’) angustifrons and Ebrachosuchus neukami from Germany, with...
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Who you gonna call?
Ahh, don't you hate it when this happens? You just go out for awhile, and the next thing you know a cat has gotten themselves tangled in your blinds and can't get out of. One of TPP's kitty girls...
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If your god didn't care about right and wrong, would you still be good?
Studies of religious belief that step outside of the Western bubble are rare but particularly interesting for that.There's a lot of great work done that leaves you with a nagging doubt, because you can...
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Barrow's Scaly Bark-louse
Male of Lithoseopsis humphreysi, from Taylor (2013). As this specimen has been preserved in ethanol, most of the wings' scales have been washed off.In yesterday's post, I told you about our project's...
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Standardizing Triassic Stratigraphic Nomenclature in New Mexico
This is a new paper written by a group of geologists who are largely responsible for conducting much of the current geological mapping in New Mexico, and is an attempt to standardize the nomenclature...
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Meet Australia's Newest Rake-legged Mite
Dorsal view of Neocaeculus imperfectus, as shown in Taylor et al. (2013).Taylor, C. K., N. R. Gunawardene & A. Kinnear. 2013. A new species of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from...
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Spider Acts Like Ruthless Carnivore, Is Really Flexitarian
Even deadly predators crave a salad sometimes. Certain orb-weaver spiders—apparent full-time carnivores who eat by trapping prey, covering it with digestive juices, and then slurping it down like an...
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TMI Friday: The Santa Claus Syndrome
The Journal of Forensic Sciences has one article that I've been attempting to dig out with whatever resources I can muster, but all I could find was the abstract. Thus, I present it to you in it's full...
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Cupressoid conifers - hard to identify
TPP is working on an expanded dichotomous key for ornamental conifers that can be cultivated here in the upper midwest. It's only to genus right now, but it's for people who see a conifer of any sort...
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Merry Holidays and Happy Christmas
While we are in the closing days of the annual (war on) Christmas season, I wanted to address a meme that floats around yearly. It showed up in my Facebook feed a bunch of times and is a meme spread by...
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Doh! Violated one of my own rules!
It was just a moment's lapse, a second or two of being less than vigilant, and it happened! It must have been the Christmas cookie that distracted TPP. Because without any warning, the eyes shifted,...
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Government ranking of U.S. universities: a truly bad idea
The U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has come up with a plan to produce official government rankings of our universities.The plan was announced this past August, and over the past month, the...
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Cooking something up
Today, the Sunday before Christmas, made a perfect day for cooking. So with plenty of time, and to help ward off the cold, wet weather, this was a day well-suited for Mulligatawny soup. It took...
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Why It's Nearly Impossible to Castrate a Hippo
Chances are you've never wondered how difficult it is to remove the testes of a hippopotamus. Other people have been thinking hard about it, though, because in fact it's almost impossible.Before...
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Bone Histology of Phytosaur, Aetosaur, and Other Archosauriform Osteoderms
Just in time for Christmas...Scheyer, T. M., Desojo, J. B., and I. A. Cerda. 2013. Bone histology of phytosaur, aetosaur, and other archosauriform osteoderms (Eureptilia, Archosauromorpha). Anatomical...
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Merry Holidays and Happy Christmas
While we are in the closing days of the annual (war on) Christmas season, I wanted to address a meme that floats around yearly. It showed up in my Facebook feed a bunch of times and is a meme spread by...
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De mundi systemate
by @ulaulaman about #IsaacNewton #physics #gravity I published this post some years ago (archived version), but for unilateral decision of the online publisher, it is deleted, so I decide to recover...
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