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Ethologist – Page 2 – Science, Education, and Society
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Science, Education, and Society. July 18, 2013. Where curiosity leads: Michigan’s past. I was amazed by the existence of a circular pattern in the aquifers centered on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. I thought that it looked like an impact crater, like the much bigger one on the coast of the Yucatan that has been implicated in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Obviously I spent an inordinate amount of time reading about this, and now writing about it! So I’m going with it. Sci en tif ic. February 14, 2013.
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Carving Nature – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. November 6, 2013. But this is about tracking down the history of a metaphor, rather than the biological problems themselves. The most direct and widely cited use of this metaphor comes from a book on Evolutionary Psychology. Is that the psyche can be segmented into separately evolving subunits in the way that we describe the elaboration of mammalian phalanges into wing struts in bats, or into a hooved foot in horses. What about the original source of the metaphor? Fill in...
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The Queen of the Sciences solves the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. May 16, 2014. The Queen of the Sciences solves the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise. The authors have reconstructed changes. What was lacking was direct forensic evidence of this “impact winter.” The Brazos river site provides it. That we can understand events spanning a century at a remove of 66 million years is a feat of human ingenuity that I find simply astonishing. Philosophy is the queen of the sciences? I think not. My vote is with paleontology. Evidence they think...
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Where curiosity leads: Michigan’s past – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. July 18, 2013. Where curiosity leads: Michigan’s past. I was amazed by the existence of a circular pattern in the aquifers centered on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. I thought that it looked like an impact crater, like the much bigger one on the coast of the Yucatan that has been implicated in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Obviously I spent an inordinate amount of time reading about this, and now writing about it! So I’m going with it. Sci en tif ic. Leave a Reply Ca...
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May 2014 – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. May 16, 2014. Climate Reality/Climate Denial/Climate Reality. In current events, two studies suggest that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet. To roll back back carbon emissions. It is just a question of how long it will take, and some people alive today may well be here to witness the aftermath. In other news, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida says he doesn’t believe the consensus that the climate is warming. May 16, 2014. The authors have reconstructed changes.
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Climate Reality/Climate Denial/Climate Reality – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. May 16, 2014. Climate Reality/Climate Denial/Climate Reality. In current events, two studies suggest that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet. To roll back back carbon emissions. It is just a question of how long it will take, and some people alive today may well be here to witness the aftermath. In other news, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida says he doesn’t believe the consensus that the climate is warming. This entry was posted in General. Eating meat →. You are...
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Grammatical lyrics – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. September 7, 2013. This isn’t about science, but it deals with two of my favorite topics: grammar and music. A song that came up on my playlist is this one from Snow Patrol: “Chasing Cars.” http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? The following lines from the chorus have always made me wonder about the grammatical choices the writer made:. If I lay here. If I just lay here. Would you lie with me. And just forget the world. Especially when followed by “Would you lie with me? Interest...
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Daydream Believer – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. April 14, 2014. Today’s NY Times. So, here we have yet another effort by drug companies to find a new nail for one of their chemical hammers. My worry is that treating daydreamers promises to stifle human creativity, not only in geniuses who (like Albert Einstein) follow daydreams to new realms of insight into the nature of things, but also in ordinary people who use daydreams simply to explore the paths that life offers them in a highly complex world. The young Albert Ei...
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Incurious curiosity – Ethologist
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Science, Education, and Society. September 4, 2013. Over at the NY Times op-ed page, Verlyn Klinkenborg regularly produces rhapsodic musings about his little patch of ground somewhere in the eastern U.S. I am seldom impressed by the perspicacity of his observations or the poetry of his writing, but his latest effort is worse than boring. It is insulting. He has noticed that the swallows in his barn have departed for their fall migration. 8221; The answer? These things have been studied for decades, as ev...
