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Desperate measures, expensive measures
When you get desperate enough, cost becomes no object. Well, price is an object, but you don't mind spending a premium price to get what you want if there's no other way to get it. In this particular...
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Ontogeny of the Malagasy Traversodontid Dadadon isaloi
Kammerer, C. F., Flynn, J. J., Ranivoharimanana, L., and A. R. Wyss. 2012. Ontogeny in the Malagasy Traversodontid Dadadon isaloi and a Reconsideration of its Phylogenetic Relationships. Fieldiana Life...
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More on the Taxonomic Affinities of Isolated Leaf-Shaped Teeth from the Triassic
In the conclusions section of the recent paper by Kammerer et al., there is a worthwhile discussion regarding the taxonomic assignment of isolated Triassic teeth. In the past some isolated...
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Gardening and Politics
Although not implying that TPP would be happy with Chance the Gardener (Being There, 1979), in general, gardeners display many characteristics that you'd like to see in political candidates,...
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Perspective in language
Language often indicates perspective: (1) Give me that. (2) *Give me this. The reason that (2) is weird -- by convention, an asterisk marks a bad sentence -- is that the word this suggests that...
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Going Gaga over a fern
Honorifics are either generic or specific epithets that honor someone by using their name. They are quite common actually, and sometimes they can be humorous or down right mean. Consider Ruiz and...
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Mathgenerator Editions: Differential Analysis
After the publications of some abstracts (with the pdf version) from papers generated with mathgen and scigen, Today I propose you a book generated with the downloadable code of mathgen. I use the...
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When satire hits home
Fiction indeed mirrors reality more than we would ever want it to... From The Onion: Latest Study Finds Cancer Cells Now Cruelly Mocking Researchers ROCHESTER, MN—Stating that cancer cells are now...
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My Book Has Landed
I am super-excited! I won a copy of 'Species: A History of the Idea' by John S. Wilkins and it just arrived this evening (Can I get a BOOYAH)! Of course that means I need to clear some things off my...
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Stay sharper for longer
Fighting cognitive decline can be simple but needs an early start With the advent of old age, incidences of misplaced keys and embarrassing moments of forgotten names occur more often. As you inch...
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Invader Zim Pumpkin?
As regular readers know, TPP likes imaginative things made from plants, especially when different species are combined. Here, compliments of the Garden Rant, is a most interesting pumpkin, quite...
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The Shambulance: 5 Reasons Not to "Cleanse" Your Colon
The Shambulance is an occasional series in which I try to find the truth about bogus or overhyped health products. Physiologist Steven Swoap is with me at the helm. If you've been tempted by promotions...
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Is Dragon Dictate a believer?
I've been using Dictate to take notes on Talmy's Toward a Cognitive Semantics. One of the example sentences is as follows: I aimed my gun into the living room. (p. 109) I cannot by any means convince...
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New Data on Small Theropod Footprints from Massachusetts
Dalman. S. G. 2012. New Data on Small Theropod Footprints from the Early Jurassic (Hettangian) Hartford Basin of Massachusetts, United States. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History...
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No Rape Republicans: Dumbasses
Republican Assholes: 2nd recipients of this prestigious award For some reason it seems that an entire major US political party has unilaterally decided that rape does not exist. Or maybe it is better...
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In which the Discovery Institute mocks me and reveals its ignorance...again.
You must be doing something useful if the Discovery Institute, that bastion of intelligent design propaganda, devotes an entire post to your article. This time it was the piece on junk DNA that I...
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ChemCoach Carnival: What I do
I am late to the party, but SeeArrOh's ChemCoach Carnival has given me a chance to indulge in some narcissistic self-promotion. There many great entires on his blog so you should take a look. Here's...
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TGIF for a mixed bag week
It wasn't the best of weeks nor the worst of weeks, but it had its combination of good and very depressing news. In other words it was like many other weeks except a bit more extreme in terms of the...
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A Reason to Vote No on Nov 6
A friend of mine posted an impassioned argument to Vote No on the marriage amendment on Facebook. She wanted to get her message out, so I offered to share it here and she said yes. I have copied her...
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Faster fMRI?
A paper demonstrating a new technique for "ultrafast fMRI" has been getting some buzz on the blogosphere. Although movies often depict fMRI showing real-time activity in the brain, in fact typical...
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