Archive for May, 2011
Measuring dinosaur body mass index… the cheap way
This afternoon, GEO 212: Evolution of the Earth students are designing experiments to test hypotheses about dinosaur body mass, brain size, body temperature and walking/running mechanics. Hopefully they’ll finish before Bruce Bartley (age 9) discovers that his dinosaur toys are missing!
Australian Geology: A post from our wandering colleague
Jim sent this post a couple weeks ago, during a monthlong visit to Australia to see his brother and new rocks: As I indicated in my earlier email–we drove to Shark Bay–and spent a couple of days there. Even though it is a World Heritage Site–I found that outside the stromatolites–there wasn’t that much of […]