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Footprints of Large Theropod Dinosaurs from the Late Triassic of Brazil
The Caturrita Formation may be younger than previously thought and there is a currently undiscovered large theropod in the latest Triassic of Brazil. da Silva, R. C., Barboni, R., Dutra, T., Godoy, M....
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Grilled winter squash & marinated green beans
The Phactors cooked a large banana squash today. Three cups of cubes were saved for making some curried squash soup. Most of the rest was steamed and frozen for making pies and other items. The...
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In praise of Small (and Cheap) science
Originally posted on the Scientific American blog The discovery of DNA structure was an outstanding example of Small Science (Image: Subversive Archeologist) I am a big fan of Small Science. In spite...
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Two filberts
What a terrible crop! Two filberts! That's one-fourth of the crop harvested the year before. American filbert is a much under appreciated and little planted shrub, and this should be corrected. Two...
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Numerous Triassic Presentation Abstracts from the Fourth Latinamerican...
A new issue of the South American journal Ameghiniana includes (starting on page 32) the set of published abstracts from the IV Congreso Latinamericano de Paleontologia Vertebrados, which was held in...
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Dear Squirrels
Dear Squirrels, Sorry you found nothing edible in that pot of petunias you dup up yesterday. Such a waste of effort even now as the petunia season is drawing to a close. Perhaps you did not notice...
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What you missed on the Web last week - 10/1/2012 edition
Forgetting kanji Japanese computer users say they are forgetting how to handwrite kanji due to computer use. The number has increased from 10 years ago. An important question not addressed is whether...
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Enslaved Ants Get Even by Killing Captors' Babies
In the world of ants, a "slave rebellion" isn't a sudden uprising: it's the slow and stealthy murder of the next generation of captors while they're too young to fight back. Ants that have been seized...
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Explaining Woodward to the layman
We scientist often, and rightly so, complain that even the best of our lot are hardly known to the man on the street. How many of my non-scientific friends and relatives, even otherwise highly...
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October 2012 Desktop Calendar
The calendar for October is a blend of several different moss species occupying the crevice in a stone. The one in the center is Bryum argenteum, the silver sidewalk moss. As the common name suggests,...
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Asperdaphne, I Don't Know Who You Are Any More
A true Asperdaphne: the type species A. versivestita, photographed by Des Beechey. The subject of today's post has been going through something of an identity crisis recently. Asperdaphne was listed...
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Advice for how to learn foreign languages
I am often asked for advice on how to learn second languages. I have written a few popular-press articles on the topic before, but these articles are mostly high-level advice, whereas the questions I...
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The Great Barrier Reef - Going, going, ....
The Phactor has been pretty lucky that his pursuit of botanical scholarship has taken him to a lot of really neat places. If remembered correctly, TPP has visited the Great Barrier Reef five times...
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Dragon of carved watermelons
As my regular readers are well aware, TPP finds all the creative things people do with plant materials fascinating. In past blogs you’ve been offered carved pumpkins, plant birds, and watermelon...
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An Explanation
You may have noticed that posting frequency around here has been, for want of a better word, rubbish. I can only apologise. In the past few months I organised a wedding, got married, went on...
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The ICZN and Electronic Publication: Where Did It Go Wrong?
Reconstruction of the dinosaur Aerosteon riocoloradensis, from here. This species was published in electronic-only format in September 2008; it was nearly six months before anyone noticed that this...
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Alfred Russel Wallace online
Each year for Darwin's Birthday party, TPP puts out his Darwin library for students to peruse, and Alfred Russel Wallace's Malay Archipelago is put out too. The Malay Archipelago is Wallace's "Origin"...
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O Zoobank, Where Art Thou?
Does anyone reading this have experience with registering publications, etc. on ZooBank? Can you clarify how the process works? In the comments for yesterday's post, two readers brought up a potential...
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Sunshine and benchwork = bliss?
I'm back... (I don't know why I haven't been posting while I've been grant-writing.) Anyway, to start off easy, here's today's weather forecast: Nothing but sunshine for the next week. (Normally most...
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OK, about that Tawfik paper on arsenate resistance
Nice work. But I think it should be of interest only to people who care about the biochemistry of arsenic resistance, a set that doesn't include me. GFAJ-s level of arsenate resistance is not all that...
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