Claudia Brown and Pedigree Collapse

A recent comment post on this blog got me thinking about the series Primeval’s Claudia Brown. Fans of the show will know that Claudia Brown was a character who was becoming romantically involved with Nick Cutter. The main series villain is Nick Cutter’s wife, Helen, long missing, thought dead, but actually just traveling through time. … Read more

Primeval – Cut Down – Series 3, Episode 3 – Review (Spoilers)

I didn’t see that coming. Synopsis The story opens with Helen drilling her Clone Troopers and demonstrating that they are mindless zombies by having one kill himself. A reporter who has been unsuccessfully on the trail of the anomaly story stakes out the ARC in the hopes of getting the biggest story of all time. … Read more

Big Cats

The question I ask is… do I trust a story in The Sun? The official confirmation came yesterday — proving thousands of members of the public have been right for years. Forestry workers conducting deer surveys have TWICE got within 50 yards of the fearsome creatures in the wild, it was revealed. These so-called “fearsome … Read more

Snake oil isn’t dead

OK, we’re all feeling the pinch with gas prices, but I really hate it when people start taking advantage of others when they’re vulnerable. That’s bad enough, but when the local news helps them, I’m appalled. Today, the local ABC affiliate, channel 15 published this story. It’s about a company that sells magnets (yes, magnets) … Read more

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Amen)

Ben Stein’s epic motion picture, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is set to debut this weekend. It’s a sweeping tale of lies, corruption, deception, censorship, bad science, dummy corporations, mendacity and the incredible lengths that some people will go to hide the truth from the public, and most importantly, our children. Don’t waste your money to … Read more

Every home needs a triceratops

If anybody would like to get me a present… might I suggest this? PARIS (Reuters) – The skeleton of a Triceratops dinosaur that roamed the earth some 65 million years ago goes under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday as part of a collection of prehistoric bones and fossils, auctioneers Christie’s said. [From Triceratops skeleton … Read more

Of Dinosaurs and Birds

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

Dinosaurs on a bus

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

Sometimes being Expelled is worth it…

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