Daily Archives: 7 April 2013

Broken Teeth

Posted on 7 April 2013 by rpg

M’good friend Dr Gee apparently has a thing about bones. Anything he can do, I can do better, so, in the absence of any biological modelling this week, here’s one for you paleontologists: To me, it looks like a fossilized … Continue reading →

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Shooting The Badger

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor, for it is she, can never resist the urge to do the Harlem Shake in public, so jumped at the chance to don a badger mask and do the aforesaid shimmy to raise awareness about the prospect of … Continue reading →

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Another Mystery Bone For You To Identify

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Henry Gee

A while ago I posted a beachcombing of a bone found on the East Beach at Cromer, which my Friend Mr P. V. of Lewisham (who regularly entertains such images in his blog, Zygoma) identified as the humerus of a … Continue reading →

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On portrayals of women in science(y) films

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Sylvia McLain

There is a feminist critical film theory from the 70′s that pointed out (rather astutely) that in many films women where just there to be looked at. Men did stuff, women were present either for visual pleasure, or simply as … Continue reading →

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Systematic Errors of Judgement

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Athene Donald

To tie in with International Women’s Day, last month Nature ran a series of articles about the issues still facing women in science and also a podcast with Uta Frith and myself debating some of the issues. The interviewer, Charlotte … Continue reading →

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Margaret McCartney at Skeptics in the Pub

Posted on 7 April 2013 by Erika Cule

Back in 2009, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, said in an interview I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. More recently, his review of Nate Silver‘s The Signal and the Noise, Larry … Continue reading →

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