Monday, March 30, 2009
It's Now Law
The Paleontological Resources Preservation legislation is now law, signed by President Obama today (March 30, 2009). Next step is implementation.
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Ruminations on paleontology and life by an amateur at both
Words on Point
Fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiralled shells and badly-constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn't really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene.
- Terry Pratchett in his novel Equal Rites
At equilibrium, the evolutionary race is not only to the big and aggressive, but also to a certain number of the small and sneaky.
- Psychologist David P. Barash
Geology controls destiny in the sense that biology has to adapt to the stage it's put on.
- Paleontologist Louis Jacobs
All you need is a good story.
- Martin Kiniski, a character in that brilliant, short-lived Canadian TV crime drama Intelligence
Science makes the familiar strange (and vice versa).
- derived from science writer John Whitfield
E conchis omnia. (Everything from shells.)
- Naturalist Erasmus Darwin
Time, to an atom locked in a rock, does not pass.
- Naturalist Aldo Leopold
Paleontologists tend to think about the life and death of organisms as a continuous thread from birth to death - and to museum drawer.
- Paleontologist Nick Pyenson
- Terry Pratchett in his novel Equal Rites
At equilibrium, the evolutionary race is not only to the big and aggressive, but also to a certain number of the small and sneaky.
- Psychologist David P. Barash
Geology controls destiny in the sense that biology has to adapt to the stage it's put on.
- Paleontologist Louis Jacobs
All you need is a good story.
- Martin Kiniski, a character in that brilliant, short-lived Canadian TV crime drama Intelligence
Science makes the familiar strange (and vice versa).
- derived from science writer John Whitfield
E conchis omnia. (Everything from shells.)
- Naturalist Erasmus Darwin
Time, to an atom locked in a rock, does not pass.
- Naturalist Aldo Leopold
Paleontologists tend to think about the life and death of organisms as a continuous thread from birth to death - and to museum drawer.
- Paleontologist Nick Pyenson
Urban Fossiling
Some urban landscapes abound with fossils. One just needs to know where to look. Building walls are a prime location. The links below may help in the search.
1. Previous post in this blog on Washington D.C.
2. Washington, D.C. - website devoted to D.C. fossils
3. Baltimore, Maryland
4. Boston, Massachusetts
5. Montreal, Canada
1. Previous post in this blog on Washington D.C.
2. Washington, D.C. - website devoted to D.C. fossils
3. Baltimore, Maryland
4. Boston, Massachusetts
5. Montreal, Canada
7. Seattle, Washington (David Williams' Stories in Stone website)
8. Worldwide (the Paleourbana website features a great world map that links to myriad sites featuring urban fossils)
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- Tony Edger
- Enduring interest in science in general, paleontology in particular. Not reflected in my BA and MA in History, with an MAT thrown in. I am posting under a pseudonym to keep my various worlds apart.
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