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Description of the Ornithosuchid Archosaurian Venaticosuchus rusconii from...
Von Baczko, M. B., Desojo, J. B., and D. Pol. 2014. Anatomy and phylogenetic position of Venaticosuchus rusconii Bonaparte, 1970 (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia), from the Ischigualasto Formation (Late...
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Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, a New Basal Ichthyosauriform from the Lower...
Amazing!Motani, R., Jiang, D.-Y., Chen, G.-B., Tintori, A., Rieppel, O., Ji, C., and J.-D. Huang. 2014. A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China. Nature (article...
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Fall Fungi - Fly Agaric
Here's a link to some nice images of fly agarics (Amanita muscaria). They are a very spectacular mushroom, large, colorful! TPP's best advice; don't eat them. They are extremely toxic and while...
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Significance of Skeletal Variation in the Late Triassic Dinosauriform...
Piechowski, P., Tałanda, M., and J. Dzik. 2014. Skeletal variation and ontogeny of the Late Triassic Dinosauriform Silesaurus opolensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:1383-1393...
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Best of Epiphenom 2007-2014
If you tune into Epiphenom via the rss feed, you may have missed this post that went up at the new home over at Patheos.If you did - then this links is specially for you!Best of Epiphenom...
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A visit from the leaf elves
For those of you who may not know, the Phactors' estate has something like a dozen very large deciduous trees, and this means that our lawns and gardens get buried, deeply, in leaves. Enough leaves...
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Putting the gardens to bed for the winter
Since the leaf elves have come and gone, and some hard freezing temperatures are on their way, only a few more things need to be done to finish up the fall gardening. The fountain pond must be emptied...
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Best of Epiphenom 2007-2014
Welcome to Epiphenom at its new home on Patheos! This blog has been running for seven years now, and over that time we’ve taken a look at a huge amount of cutting edge research into the psychology and...
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It hurts! Atheists and Christians don’t feel each others pain, but with a twist.
For many people, their religion is like a badge of social identity. You feel an affinity with people who share a religion – not surprising given that you will share many cultural and social touch...
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Friend and/or Foe: Separating Rhizobium and Agrobacterium
Roots of cowpea Vigna unguiculata with nodules containing Rhizobium, copyright Dave Whitinger.For as far back as we have records to know, farmers have recognised the value of crop rotation: varying the...
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Disappointing fall color - Persian ironwood
A Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) was installed in our gardens about 14-15 months ago. It was decent sized, nicely shaped, and a reasonable price, so it seemed like a good idea. The tree has...
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Garjainia madiba, a new Erythrosuchid Archosauriform from the Early Triassic...
Gower, D. J., Hancox, P. J., Botha-Brink, J., Sennikov, A. G., and R. J. Butler. 2014. A New Species of Garjainia Ochev, 1958 (Diapsida: Archosauriformes: Erythrosuchidae) from the Early Triassic of...
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Money, the root of all evil
Here you go, a nice cartoon. Don't know how many of you are familiar with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, but it is often very funny, and very on target, like this one about money. However TPP is a...
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Cure for winter blues - the tropics
It snowed today, the 13th of November, and rather early for these parts. It technically snowed yesterday too. The novelty of this form of precipitation has worn off already. Saw enough of it growing up...
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Hard times, tough gods
Almost all cultures have some kind of supernatural beliefs. But it may surprise you to know that belief in moralising supernatural beings, who care about whether mortals do good or bad, are far from...
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Friday Fabulous Flowers - Native orchids of Indiana
This is pretty great, a real botanizing effort to find and photograph all of the orchids native to Indiana, unless by now they are extinct! Here's the link to the U-tube slide show complements of the...
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How to make someone happy
Based on a recent observation, it's pretty simple to make someone really happy - send them cookies. This morning while waiting for my pusher to prepare my caffeine fix, a couple of foreign students...
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Falsification and its discontents
Karl Popper's grounding in the age of physics colored his views regarding the way science is done. Falsification was one of the resulting casualties (Image: Wikipedia Commons)Earlier this year the 'Big...
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Women in Science: an Example of Roadblocks
It's exciting times in our Medical School. We recently completed a Strategic Plan entitled Strategic Vision 2025 and we hired a new Dean. There are numerous problems at the university medical school,...
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Falsification and chemistry: What’s the rub?
Roald Hoffmann has often emphasized the limitationsof falsification for the everyday practice of chemistryMy last post on the role and limitations of falsification leads to a point I have made before:...
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