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Postponed video for Rite of Spring post
Mar. 20th, 2025 09:05 amI decided one video was enough for TED-Ed on 'The Rite of Spring,' 'The ballet that incited a riot,' for the Vernal Equinox. Maybe next year.
This video didn't talk enough about the movie for me to use it in Celebrating 30 years of 'Jurassic Park'.
I didn't watch this teaser trailer in time to include it in 'Prehistoric Planet 2' explores ancient biodiversity on International Day for Biological Diversity.
I considered the following video for PBS Digital's 'Be Smart' explains 'The Surprising Origins of Thanksgiving Foods', but decided on one for National Maize Day instead. Maybe next year.
Today is National Fossil Day, exactly the kind of holiday I'd celebrate at Crazy Eddie's Motie News except that I'm in the middle of featuring the News and Documentary Emmy winners in science, space, and medicine. Maybe next year. So, I'm observing it here by sharing a video I'll get around to posting at the main blog eventually, An Asteroid Didn’t Kill the Dinosaurs, Here’s a New Theory About What Did from Seeker.
Actually, the asteroid did kill the dinosaurs, just much more indirectly than originally thought.
Blog entries posted from the hospital
Sep. 21st, 2017 08:01 amWhile I was in the hospital, I had access to my wife's tablet. I was able to not only surf the internet and watch shows on Netflix and Hulu (I watched an episode of "The Good Place" when I had it for the Coffee Party Board Retreat a couple weeks earlier), I was able to compose and post short blog entries. Here are links to the three that I managed to write while sitting next to my hospital bed.
September 9 R.I.P. Jerry Pournelle
September 10 Vox on hurricanes, climate change, and storm surge
September 11 Dinosaurs dancing to 'Jurassic Park' theme and more science fiction music on a football field
That's as much as I wish to dwell on my morbidity and eventual mortality today, which happens to be my birthday.
Fan: Jack Horner
Jun. 11th, 2011 11:30 am
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a "Chickenosaurus".I'm a paleontologist by training, so of course I'm a fan of Jack Horner. If nothing else, his discoveries have made dinosaurs more interesting.
