The BBC trilogy of Walking with Monsters, Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts provided most of the daily structure of this vacation ( Read more... )

In a recent post, I had discussed the stance of interactive communion with the Divine that the Pilgrims had and how that informed their stance on giving thanks. Sometimes these descriptions are very abstract and come across as over-generalizing. Historians usually counter this with going back to some source.

Since I am currently reading the ( Read more... )

After a somewhat frustrating week of trying to separate the stuff from the fluff behind early AI claims in 1980s papers, it was reassuring to see that someone at least was still doing fun stuff in the science department:

• They bagged another coelacanth.
• A comparative analysis of a known hominid skulls confirms the "out-of-africa" hypothesis ( Read more... )

The only thing missing from that dino is a truck and he'd be every kid's favorite!

For the adults, the fact that they found the dino's fishing foot prints in the lake bed is of course the most exciting.