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Larry Moran At Guelph

Last night the Guelph Skeptics were fortunate enough to hold an even featuring one of my favorite science bloggers Larry Moran. The talk was entitled Evolution as a Fact and Theory, and addressed just that. We had just over 80 people show up for the talk, and plenty of discussion right until the school started [ READ MORE ]

Katie’s infuriating trip to the library

La geolgie, est par definition, la science de la Terre. Most of what I’ve read in geology and paleontology in the past three – six months has either been in French or been really old. (Hutton’s book is almost impossible to read. All of his “s”s are “f”s and all of his “g”s are “p”s. It [ READ MORE ]

Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Reported Only 1/2 Of The Spill

The world’s largest nuclear plant. In Kashiwazaki, Japan a 6.8-magnitude earthquake disrupted a nuclear plant on Wednesday creating a radioactive leak. At the time they reported that about 100 barrels had fallen over polluting surrounding areas. Well, turns out it was actually about 400 barrels, with the lids coming off 40 of them. The amount that leaked [ READ MORE ]

Dinos aren’t birds?

Dinos likely didn’t really have feathers… The theory that dinosaurs gave rise to birds has been dealt a blow by palaeontologists who have examined critical evidence from a Chinese fossil. The discoverers of the turkey-sized dinosaur Sinosauropteryx say it would have had primitive feathers, supporting the bird-from-dinosaurs theory. But the latest research says these ‘proto-feathers’ are really frilly [ READ MORE ]

Diictodon

The animal with the earliest sexual differentiation. Name: diictodon (DY-ik-toe-don) means two teeth animal: therapsid reptile size: 45 cm long diet: herbivore lived: 256 - 252 mya found: Africa and Asia fossil: In the late Permian period, the same time as the gorgonopes, these extremely common mammal-like synapsids burrowed deep in the ground living in couples, probably staying with [ READ MORE ]

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