One more for my lost childhood — Triceratops never existed.
Category Archives: General Science
New Ceratops Discovered
I got through my dinosaur phase at a pretty young age, but these are pretty cool.
The Day The Earth Stood Still
What if the planet stopped spinning?
[Via Geekpress]
Space As Exploration
Can someone explain to me the point of this long essay (assuming that it actually has one)? Because I seem to be missing it.
An Interesting Google Ad
This looks like an interesting course:
Have you ever wondered: How do various scholarly discourses—cosmology, geology, anthropology, biology, history—fit together?
Big History answers that question by weaving a single story from a variety of scholarly disciplines. Like traditional creation stories told by the world’s great religions and mythologies, Big History provides a map of our place in space and time. But it does so using the insights and knowledge of modern science, as synthesized by a renowned historian.
This is a story scholars have been able to tell only since the middle of the last century, thanks to the development of new dating techniques in the mid-1900s. As Professor Christian explains, this story will continue to grow and change as scientists and historians accumulate new knowledge about our shared past.
I and others actually tried to condense this story down to something that can be told in forty-five minutes or so at the dinner table, which we tell on Moon Day (coming up two weeks from today, on the forty-first anniversary of the lunar landing).
What was really interesting, though (and what mindless stereotypers on the left will find boggling) was that it was a Google ad at National Review…
How Deep Were They Drilling?
Pretty deep. But actually, not as deep as I thought. There are lots of trenches that are much deeper.
Get Him Some Cleats
OK, not that it’s anything new, but Superman would seem to be defying him some physics here. You know, that basic Newton’s law thing?
Martin Gardner
RIP. I hadn’t realized that he’d retired so long ago.
[Update a few minutes later]
Some personal memories from John Derbyshire.
The Cambrian Die Off
…may not have happened. I regret not seeing the Burgess Shale when I was up in British Columbia twenty years ago. I don’t know if/when I’ll get back.
A Scientific Experiment
I can conclude, based on two samples, that cats don’t like refried beans.
This is actually good news, since at least one of them sleeps on a pillow by my head.