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Films with just dinosaurs
By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 14 at 5:45:03 pm | 7 commentsThere’s a contretemps going on between a number of scienceblogs types, primarily our pal PeeZed, and the increasingly annoying Chris Mooney, over Mooney’s new book Unscientific America, cowritten with Sheril Kirschenbaum. The book’s subtitle, “How
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Darwinius masillae
By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 19 at 2:46:24 pm | 3 comments
Darwinius masillae, an Eocene primate fossil. Photo courtesy PLoS One[UPDATE: Carl Zimmer deflates some of the hype as well.]
Crazy busy today — first actual paid work in months — but I couldn’t let this announcement go uncommented. What a
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Dragon Trees and Spanish Needles
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 27 at 11:12:56 pm | 10 commentsOne of the steadiest jokes in the plant world — for rather nerdly definitions of the word “joke” — is the degree to which a person must constantly relearn the proper Latin names of plants. Just as soon as you get used to calling something a
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The Open Laboratory 2009: open for nominations
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 13 at 10:32:39 pm | 0 commentsSince 2006, the Open Laboratory series has taken the best writing first published on science-oriented blogs and published it in book form. (I have an essay in each of the volumes for 2006 and 2007. I must have been distracted somehow last year.) … (continues)
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Protect Gold Butte
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 04 at 2:21:18 pm | 1 commentMost of you have never heard of it, but northeast of Las Vegas, in one of the least-visited parts of the continental United States, a desert treasure in Nevada needs your support.
I visited Gold Butte for the first time in 1997. I was just
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Alluvium
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 20 at 11:01:01 pm | 1 commentThis pebble in my boot, when it was one
still with its mother rock, cooled over tens
of centuries: a batholith. Bright grew
the flakes of muscovite, bright grew the pale
discolored quartz, each grain an infinite
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Paleontology
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 19 at 4:37:28 pm | 1 comment[Time to haul this one out of the archives, what with all the targazing I’ve done the last couple days.]
Paleontology
“What is it that sets us apart,” she asked,
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“from sunset or sierra?
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Breaking Pleistocene Update
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 19 at 3:21:46 pm | 8 comments
I went over to the Page Museum this morning to get a look at some of the fossils they pulled out from underneath the May Company parking lot.
I got a handful of blurry, underexposed photos with my phone. They’re here.
On a side note, why is it
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Coyote-killing “tournament” in Idaho
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 18 at 5:48:58 pm | 22 commentsFrom our friends at Project Coyote, this upsetting press release.
… (continues)Wildlife advocates are condemning an upcoming coyote killing “tournament”, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 21, and sponsored by the Bent Rod Outdoors, a Challis business.
“This event
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Major cache of fossils unearthed in Los Angeles
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 18 at 12:50:12 pm | 8 commentsFrom the Los Angeles Times:
… (continues)Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils
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There’s no such thing as desertification
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 16 at 6:33:19 pm | 6 commentsIf you want evidence to support my increasingly frequent contention that environmentalists as a whole really don’t care about arid environments, it’s instructive to look at a bit of jargon in use over the last few decades.
The jargon is used to
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Best field guide ever
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 6:15:29 pm | 19 commentsI don’t do paid reviews of books nor other products, and I think bloggers who do are unethical — whether they disclose that the review is paid or not. I say this because I’m about to rant about how amazingly cool iBird Explorer Plus is, to the
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Tortoise alert: letters needed
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 4:04:40 pm | 0 commentsFrom the Center for Biological Diversity:
… (continues)Last year, the Army moved more than 750 tortoises off of pristine desert lands in order to expand its Fort Irwin army base in California’s Mojave desert. Not all tortoises were monitored, but of those that
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A moment for Oolie
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 06 at 11:32:15 am | 1 commentOur pal Sherwood has lost a good friend.
Based on what Sherwood’s shared of Oolie’s spirit over the years, I suspect this is how he’d want to be remembered.
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Things Environmentalists Get Wrong
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 28 at 12:37:13 pm | 11 commentsIn the spirit of self-criticism, here’s a non-exhaustive list of things people on the green side of the fence say, with all good intent, that are demonstrably wrong.
“We can protect the environment without jeopardizing economic growth.”
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Nosy Parker
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 26 at 9:26:32 pm | 17 commentsI have an anniversary coming up next week, as many of you know, and it’s been on my mind as one might expect. Still tough, you know?
This year, though, I have a little bit of emotional support, and so the prospect of remembrance doesn’t seem
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