The week before last was Michelle’s spring break, so I took a day off to take her down to the Mesa Southwest Museum (AKA Arizona Museum of Natural History) to see the traveling “Feathered Dinosaurs” exhibit. There is a province in Northeastern China called Liaoning, where, 120-odd million years ago a lake and a volcano … Read more
From Reuters… Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday. [From Dinosaur fossil found on bus in Peru | Science & Health | Reuters] There’s no good fossil-bearing formations in Phoenix, so I’ve never found one… I never thought … Read more
This is too priceless not to pass on. Because there’s a twist ending, I won’t summarize, suffice to say that a crackpot creationist movie is coming out soon, called “Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed.” It’s a creationist PR hatchet job piece and they engaged several prominent evolutionary biologists – under less than honest circumstances – to … Read more
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… as I was approaching college age as the 80’s were dawning on us, I had three areas of interest that I explored for my future life’s work. Each would set the course of my adult life in three very different ways and each would have been a … Read more