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Common creationist misconception about human evolution fixed
Original image made by reddit user arthurpaliden. This version by Twitter user @quantumleapyear.
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Same old, same old, that's just how it is
This blog's readers come from around the world. As a result, there are things about the old USA that you probably don't understand like the gun control debate. Here it is explained in just four...
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If at first you don't succeed, put it all back they way it was and keep...
TPP was an early user of the internet back in the day when you had to know ftp and all sorts of funky stuff like baud. Initially dial up connections operated at 300 baud. Can you believe that? No?...
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Why foxes are more important than hedgehogs in drug discovery
A while ago I wrote about the dominance of foxes over hedgehogs in chemistry. Hedgehogs love to drill deep into one topic; foxes love to leap over interdisciplinary fences. Both creatures have been key...
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September 2015 Desktop Calendar
Some Grimmiaceae mosses hanging out with an intensely yellow lichen pal from the 2015 SO BE FREE moss foray in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. 1 - Single click on the image to open it up...
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FieldNotes: Oliver Sacks, and irreproducible psychology
The Fully Immersive Mind of Oliver Sacks by Steve Silberman at Wired: One night in 1940, a bomb tumbled out of the sky into a garden in North London, exploding into thousands of droplets of white-hot...
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Bizarre 'alien corpse' has idiots stumped
I know we've all become more familiar with 'mystery monster' corpse stories in the last few years, but I think they may have reached a new nadir. Fairfax featured a story today titled 'Bizarre 'alien...
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Most obnoxious plant
Most obnoxious plant is a big category and if this becomes a contest there could get a lot of entries, but what the hey. Our first nomination comes from TPP's old friend the FlyGuy. Apparently he had a...
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More on obnoxious weeds
This is a pretty funny coincidence when another friendly blogger also comments on a noxious weed, but in a very different context. Too bad they weren't called The Kudzu, but English ivy is bad enough....
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Toto, I don't think we're in Lincolnland any more.
Uh oh! Something suggests that this isn't Lincolnland any more! What are the clues? Well, there's spruce and arbor vitae trees every where. There's mountains and unless TPP is mistaken, that's snow...
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Whistler sunshine
Labor day here in the Great White North was pretty much what you would expect in a touristy area at the end of the summer; it was packed with humanity from many different countries. So Tuesday has...
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Petrosia: The Sexual Life of the Sponges
It has to be admitted that sponges are not one of the best-publicised of animal groups. Even when they are given some grudging mention, there is little reference to the variety of sponges that can be...
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The expansion entropy
In simply: the expansion entropy is a new way to calculate the entropy of a given system.Expansion entropy uses the linearization of the dynamical system and a notion of a volume on its state spaceFrom...
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Reanalysis of the Diapsid Reptile Elachistosuchus huenei from the Late...
Sobral, G., Sues, H.-D., and J. Müller. 2015. Anatomy of the enigmatic reptile Elachistosuchus huenei Janensch, 1949 (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Upper Triassic of Germany and its relevance for the...
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FieldNotes: Hand-drawn biology, wearing rubber gloves, and the invention of...
Rediscovering the Forgotten Benefits of Drawing by Jennifer Landin at Symbiartic: ............In the 1920s and 1930s, as drawing was eradicated from public school programs, people cheered. No more...
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The Chromeurytominae: Australo-Asian Mystery Wasps
One of the most diverse groups of micro-wasps is the Chalcidoidea, a bewildering array of intricate little jewels. A number of chalcidoid taxa have been extensively studied due to their roles as...
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Cryo-electron microscopy: A prime example of a tool-driven scientific revolution
Last week I had the immense pleasure again of having lunch with Freeman Dyson in Princeton. One of the myriad topics on the platter of intellectual treats on the table was the idea of science as a...
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Dear Flat-landers
Hello, flat-landers. TPP here in British Columbia, Whistler to be exact. The weather has taken a turn to the sunny side, and right now it's hard to say how much sunshine, clear air, alpine hiking, and...
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Learning abstracts: from mathematics, to the neural trasnformation machines
A coulpe of abstracts about e-learning: This paper presents a new framework for adding semantics into e-learning system. The proposed approach relies on two principles. The first principle is the...
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Warming at 10 degrees an hour
Today dawned bright and clear in the mountains, and at dawn the temperature was 46 F. And hour later it was 55 F. In another hour it will be 65 F and so on until topping out in the mid-80s. Such are...
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