Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

How many of you out there know someone who is trying out a new cleanse, detox or diet? Perhaps you’re doing this yourself. Be honest — no show of hands needed. I am by no means going to bash any of these diets, cleanses or detoxes, but  I’m instead going to try to bring our focus […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

Hello, everyone! I’m sorry about the long wait, but I’ve been pretty busy.  From now on, my posts should be much more regular than the past two months.  My first new post will be about my time in China. I flew out of New York on June 21st, arriving in Beijing with a 12-hour time […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

David Catanese just listed Elizabeth Warren as the Democrats’ third most likely 2016 presidential nominee, behind front-runner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden. Why? Woman? Check.  She’d allow progressives an out for feeling obligated to support Hillary for glass ceiling reasons. Oh, and she’s a real progressive but yet has […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

In This Town (the subtitle is Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!—In America’s Gilded Capital), Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, writes a tell-all about the people he knows — politicians, journalists and lobbyists. It’s mostly a series of anecdotes, from a guy who has met a lot of […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

5/30 We drove back out to the field site along with some extra volunteers and colleagues.  There were now five of us at the campsite and several more staying in rooms at a nearby mission. With more people and extra cars, we finally allowed ourselves to go out to a basin badland area we’ve affectionately […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

5/21 – 5/23 I flew in to Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday the 21st and met up with doctoral student Brandon Hedrick and undergraduate Samantha Cordero, both from the University of Pennsylvania.  Over the next two days, we packed up our gear in the car and drove out 7 hours to our field site in New […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

The last few weeks have not been great for President Barack Obama. Steve Miller, Acting Commissioner of the IRS, resigned after it came out that the IRS applied greater scrutiny to Tea Party groups. When it turned out that he had been planning to resign anyway, the grand gesture suddenly seemed transparently phony. The media is […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

Dinosaurs are reptiles. Reptiles are cold-blooded.  Birds are dinosaurs.  Birds are warm-blooded.  When did warm-bloodedness — more accurately referred to as endothermy — evolve?  This is a question that has been debated and is rife with controversy for over a century. The traditional viewpoint was that dinosaurs were giant lizards that lived in swamps in […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

Hello, everyone!  I think that it’s about time to go through Jurassic Park and explain what’s real science and what’s completely fictional.  In order to do this, I have decided to sit down and watch the movie for what is probably around the hundredth time, so the following will be in chronological movie order. ·         […]

Everything Else 2016 Republican Debate #1

In my last post, I promised to explain how raptors may have used their protowings to hunt.  A recent and intriguing hypothesis, called the Raptor Prey Restraint (RPR — pronounced “ripper”) model, claims that they would have hunted using a process called “prey-riding.”  Prey-riding is exactly what it sounds like.  The predator jumps on top […]