Here’s a close-up. If I had my druthers, I’d prefer “maxilla” and “mandible” instead of “upper jaw bone” and “lower jaw bone”, especially alongside the old-timey term “malar”, which has been almost completely replaced by “zygomatic” in modern anatomical nomenclature. Neverthe...
chapter in a long-delayed edited volume; a paper on Joni Mitchell that was given Major Revisions from a humanities journal for (I thought) spurious reasons; an anatomy paper at PeerJ whose revisions should soon be finished; and the newly submitted paper that I mentioned at the top of the ...
aEach compressed air circuit is to be identified as to its purpose (such as ‘poppet blow off’) and the required pressure to assure proper action. Each circuit is to be fitted with a quick disconnected fitting and labeled “Air In” 每条压缩空气电路将被辨认至于它的目的(例如`宝宝吹散’)...
Life history differences will mean that the fossils of long-lived taxa under-represent their live populations. And so on, and on, and on. Putting it all together, I would tend to be very sceptical that a difference in ratios of 6–8% to 2–3% is necessarily telling us anything. With ...
They spent long hours on the road and had many conversations during that time. Her memories of his final days were tied to that car. The second example is from a conflict between my mother and sister. My mother claimed my sister didn’t have a sentimental bone in her body and my ...
chapter in a long-delayed edited volume; a paper on Joni Mitchell that was given Major Revisions from a humanities journal for (I thought) spurious reasons; an anatomy paper at PeerJ whose revisions should soon be finished; and the newly submitted paper that I mentioned at the top of the ...
on salamanders reminds me that PhyloPic could really use more salamanders.http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2013/10/01/amazing-world-of-salamanders/ @mike @PhyloPic Here you go: Darren Naish How long does it take me to draw a gar? I decided to time myself. A: about ...
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and somet...
Before we go on, that list is by no means exhaustive. It is the product of long familiarity but not of long intentional thought; it’s literally the stuff that I thought of on the fly while composing this post. I could probably make it four times longer if I wanted to spend a day ...
Some time later, I got to see the bone for myself: it’s long been on public display as a touch specimen at the NMNH in Washington DC. Here’s a photo — not one of mine, which didn’t come out too well, but one sent by Mike Brett-Surman: ...