Search results

Since I haven't and will not have the time this week to post my assessment of our most recent debate, I thought I would slake your appetite for science/academia/knowledge/whatever, and share this amazing demonstration of science at work as some comic relief :D . See figure 1. In case you're...

Hello all! I was "inspired" to make this post because of Hurricane Iselle, the category 1 storm about to make landfall in Hawai'i. Here's the thing. I'm actually in Hawai'i doing research! Now, I am in Kaua'i, which isn't expected to suffer the full force of the storm, but I was in Maui just...

Hey there! I did a similar post last year about Dinosaur Provincial Park, which I didn't go to this year. Instead I headed north to Grand Prairie, Alberta, which is sitting on Campanian rocks from the Wapiti formation, dating to ~73 MYA. The area's claim to fame are incredibly rich bonebeds of...

Fun in Canada! This is from a show called the Rick Mercer Report, and I thought I'd share because it's both interesting and just so darn cute. :P

A new, fantastic paper was published today on the morphology and function of Oviraptorosaurs tails, which differ considerably from those of other theropod dinosaurs. The article suggests that their flexible tails, which ended in a fan of feathers, were used as display mechanisms during...

Hello everyone! I decided it might be a cool idea to share my experiences I had in a field program with the research team from the University of Alberta. I thought many of you would be interested in this; after all, we were looking for dinosaurs! So, for 3 weeks spanning from late June and into...

So a pastor in my city has created JesusWeen for Christians who don't celebrate Halloween. He and his followers give out Bibles instead of candy so children can spread the word of the gospel, and they are against the evil in Halloween...so he doesn't want the kids to dress up like ghosts...

I found an article in my paper this morning and thought it may be of interest to everyone here, although most of you have probably seen this already, but I thought just in case. However, it is just a news article and I still want to hunt down the actual scientific publication. Has anyone else...

Drawing is one of my favourite things to do, and I think my preferred subjects are quite applicable to some of the general themes of this site :) I linked my most recent pieces, but you can go and have a look around on my deviantart account if you like...

Hello everyone! I was in search of a place where I could find intelligent and informative converstations and debates. This site was recommended to me by a fellow youtuber, and after having read some of the posts, I decided to sign myself up! To say a little about myself, I graduated with a...