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FOLKLORE DE LOS FÓSILES IBÉRICOS: junio 2014
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FOLKLORE DE LOS FÓSILES IBÉRICOS. PALEONTOLOGÍA CULTURAL Y ETNOPALEONTOLOGÍA, IBÉRICAS: Nombres populares, topónimos derivados, leyendas explicativas, creencias y prácticas arracionales, usos culturales, comunes y supersticiosos, antiguos y modernos, tradicionales y actuales, generados a partir de interpretaciones intuitivas sobre la naturaleza y el origen de ciertos fósiles presentes en el territorio de España, Gibraltar y Portugal. Sábado, junio 21. Por Heraclio Astudillo Pombo, Universitat de Lleida.
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Fossils and Other Living Things: July 2014
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Saturday, July 26, 2014. Teeth The Blame Game. 2008), Shubin writes:. The so-called “running rhino,” this example is also from the White River Badlands); and, the last is from a Pleistocene horse, Equus. I found this specimen in southwestern Florida). Shubin’s passing reference to dentists and dental problems raises for me the question of “Why? 8221; I guess I’m looking for a place to lay blame. VSI) series which...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: November 2014
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. I’m wrestling with two realities about paleontology. The first involves paleontological fieldwork; the second, fieldwork’s aftermath. Paleontologist Peter Vaughn turned fieldwork into an equation. According to paleontologist Michael Novacek in his book Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia. To ward off Gould’s zeal and buy into his s...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: June 2014
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Monarchs and the Changing of the Season. I’ve been thinking about those events that mark the changing of the season from spring to summer here in the northern hemisphere. I was prompted initially (in a decidedly negative fashion on my part as will be evident) by physicist Adam Frank’s oral essay titled Seeking the Solstice: Kick Off Your Summer of Cosmic Sunsets. Why does this happen?
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Fossils and Other Living Things: June 2015
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Monday, June 29, 2015. Calvert Marine Museum Striking A Balance. I recently visited the Calvert Marine Museum (CMM) in Solomons, Maryland, and the word that I’ve been contemplating since that visit is balance. In various of its manifestations. To my delight, balance is itself. One of the central themes that the CMM is conveying. More precisely, balance in the natural world. I was engrossed by the array of fossil ...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: December 2014
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Implications of Spare Parts. A fossil skeleton cast of the house-cat-sized mammal Didelphodon vorax. Graces the new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The subject of a previous post. This exhibit, titled The Last American Dinosaurs. Volume 465, 2014, page 8.). Blogger Brian Switek ( Laelaps. Posted a good overview. Perhaps the key aspect of the article f...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: February 2015
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Becoming a Scientist A Very Short Introduction to Keith Stewart Thomson. It was inevitable that, after I discovered the Oxford University Press’ Very Short Introductions. 1993) I will treat each of these discoveries in the order in which I made them. These slender volumes cover such a wealth of subjects, from metaphysics to stars, the devil to terrorism, probability to magic, the Magn...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: September 2014
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Saturday, September 27, 2014. Pleasure and Guilt from the Unexpected. How many things have I looked up. In a lifetime of looking things up? Billy Collins, from the poem The Literary Life. I’ve been grappling with guilt over a “treasure” I found in an unexpected place. Perhaps it was the very fact that it was a surprise, so out-of-place, that I lowered my defenses and bought it. Lower jaws. Some shark groups h...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: Forest Service's Proposed Rules for the Paleontological Resources Preservation Legislation ~ Reviving Faded Memories
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Friday, June 7, 2013. Forest Service's Proposed Rules for the Paleontological Resources Preservation Legislation Reviving Faded Memories. This post is about things forgotten, remembered, and made easy. On May 23, 2013. In December 2008 when the 110th Congress had closed without passing the legislation. The Background section accompanying these proposed regulations in the Federal Register. Placing the burden for k...
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Fossils and Other Living Things: Escape to Patagonia
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Fossils and Other Living Things. Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both. Monday, July 20, 2015. Most important. (For an accessible and spirited consideration of Simpson’s paleontological career, I recommend Léo F. Laporte’s George Gaylord Simpson: Paleontologist and Evolutionist. Published in 1934, is one of the finest travel books I’ve read, and the subject of this post. (Pictured below is the cover to the Time Reading Program Special Edition published in 1965.). According to Simpson...
