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Why does Rush Limbaugh think sex frequency and cost positively correlate?
"She's having so much sex, she can't afford the contraception."Right there, we learn so much about Rush Limbaugh. Clearly, he thinks that when you have a lot of sex, you must pay for it, so the more...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - Walking Iris
This is actually a quite fabulous flower in particular the contrast between the white upper half of the falls and the blue standards, both with the yellow-brown mottled bases. A while back another...
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Nothing is unstable
A previous post from almost three years ago keeps getting comments: Another creationist dentist expert on evolution. That's great, even if it is fueled by creationists like anonymous who left this...
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Church and freedom from depression: cause or effect?
That churchgoers in the USA are less likely to be depressed than non-Churchgoers is pretty well established now. However, what's always been unclear is whether this is down to cause or effect. Does...
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Physicist Lawrence Krause on Atheist Talk Tomorrow
Calendar:Minnesota Atheists Title:"Atheists Talk" Radio AM 950 KTNF When:Mar 04 9:00 am - 10:00 am Description:Sunday, March 4, 9:00am-10:00am “Atheists Talk” Radio AM 950 KTNF in the Twin Cities or...
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Chanaresuchus ischigualastensis, a New Proterochampsid from the Late Triassic...
This is a short communication in the new issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. As such there is no abstract available. Trotteyn, M. J., Martinez, R. N., and O. A. Alcober. 2012. A new...
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Pilot data
I am back from a long semi-silence.I have been trying to finish up a number of projects, which gives me less time to write. Speaking of… One of the focuses of my work is figuring out how children learn...
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Naming Species After Scientists?
My former labmate Dr. Juan Carlos Villarreal recently described a new species of hornworts from Columbia. Villarreal A., Juan Carlos; Campos S., Laura Victoria; Uribe-M., Jaime; Goffinet, Bernard....
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Sowing botanical ignorance - common names
From a botanical perspective, common names are generally a nuisance, but at times the misinform the amateur. So understand this, common names don't mean a thing. A common and very annoying purveyor...
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Why it's hard to explain drug discovery to physicists
I minored in physics in college, and ever since then I have had a lively interest in the subject and its history. Although initially trained as an organic chemist, part of the reason I decided to study...
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Name the Bug # 58
It's been a while since we last had one of these, but I thought I'd put this up in preparation for tomorrow's post: What kind of animal was this, photographed in a Polish forest? Because this is one of...
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Another Example of the Phylogenetic Utility of Osteoderms in Triassic...
Buchwitz, M., C. Foth, I. Kogan, and S. Voigt. 2012. On the use of osteoderm features in a phylogenetic approach on the internal relationships of the Chroniosuchia (Tetrapoda: Reptiliomorpha)....
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Don't like labels? How inhuman of you
Just a few ingredients that might be on the label for the average human.Via Wikimedia Commons.Humans like to classify things so much that we've got entire disciplines and subdisciplines devoted to the...
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Three Pieces of Advice I've found useful for writing up
It has been a month now since I've embarked on the whole writing up process. Before I started, I asked around for advice from other people who've gone through the same experience. So here is a list of...
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Evidence of Avian-like Behavior in a Basal Saurischian Dinosaur
There has been a rash of Triassic vertebrate papers in the last two weeks. Here is one that looks at the taphonomy of a specimen of the basal saurischian Guaibasaurus and suggests that it had a avian...
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"Romer's Gap" Is Filled
Taking a quick break from all of the current Triassic papers because this is pretty significant for the field of vertebrate paleontology. Smithson, T. R.,Wood, S. P., Marshall, J. E. A., and J. A....
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Spring break - field season!
Well, one thing is pretty certain, spring break is next week and very, very few undergrads will be on campus. As usual, spring break will be when the Phactor gears up for field season. A couple of...
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Gilbert Stork on steaks, synthesis and more
Few chemists in the twentieth century have contributed as many important ideas to the science and art of organic synthesis as Gilbert Stork. Stork has made any number of groundbreaking and elegant...
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Arachana nigra, a New Temnospondyl from the Permo-Triassic of Uruguay
Piñeiro, G., Ramos, A., and C. Marsicano. 2012. A rhinesuchid-like temnospondyl from the Permo-Triassic of Uruguay. Compte Rendus Palevol 11:65-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2011.07.007...
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