Much as I’ve long wanted to study hippos as one of the “big four” clades of giant land mammals, I’ve wanted to do so with rhinos; and this is my fifth such study. Here, we (led by French PhD student Cyril) use the same kind of 3D musculoskeletal modelling process as paper #...
What does the Earth mean? – The Witty Gemini! TESSEROLOGY A Tidbit: Joshua Tree XDrive What you can do on “Earth”? WPC: Earth – Window With A View – A Trivial Mind At Work Weekly Photo Challenge: Earth – nancy merrill photography Earth: Scenic Look-out – Rebecca Wiseman...
Fin de siecle is a French term meaning "end of the century" and it typically is used to refer to the last two decades of the nineteenth century. The "spirit" of the fin de siecle period is characterized by decadence, aestheticism, pessimism, cynicism, and ennui....
And I don’t mean in Second Life, which another kettle completely (and one I loveloveLOVE), but over Skype and once in a while. The sort of Role Playing Game (RPG) that has character sheets and dice; pencils and erasers and more books than I can conveniently fit on my desk at one...
Michael goes on to say ‘Great questions are rarely asked by students in an education system facing a crisis of significance. Much more common are administrative questions: “How long does this paper need to be?”“Is attendance mandatory?” Or the worst (and most common) of all: “What ...
Which has meant I have been buried in e-owls asking the question, ‘”What doessolve et coagulamean?” Beatrice Groves has written something on the subject which I assume will be definitive but MuggleNet.com has been down (waydown, as in “transitioning to new ownership”) so I don’t ...
satisfied with his life, however; he was far too clever for that; and he had spent a good deal of time, first and last, reviling Fate for not having endowed him with some talent upon which he could concentrate his energies, and with which attain distinction and find balm for his ennui...