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I thought I'd try something a bit different in this post. I wanted to write abo...
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On the weekend I did an analysis about a recent paper by Caleb Everett linking altitude to the presence of ejective sounds in a langauge. In this post I look at the possible effects of contact and population size. I find that controlling for population size removes the significance of the link between ejectives and read more...
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So in my last post I promised to put up the videos of my cat biomechanics footage online (cut scene from “The Secret Life of the Cat” documentary). Here I deliver on that promise. Note that all this footage was filmed at 250 frames/second, so it is 10 times faster than conventional UK/EU (PAL format) […]
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These are very interesting illusions. Most of them work on me especially the one shown here, as long as my eyes keep scanning. You can stop them by concentrating on one point. Some of them don't work or don't work as well on me. Pretty hard to trust your eyes when they fool you like this. Anyone out there red-green color blind? Do these illusions work on you? What ones did you like or dislike? Could you paint your car with one of these
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Yeah! That just makes my morning! What do us lazy professors do with our 3 month long summer vacation? Well, let TPP offer a couple of answers. First, we don't get paid. Maybe you think we aren't working, but not to worry because we're not getting paid either. That's an equation you can perhaps understand. Certainly TV right now doesn't have much to offer. Let's see both hockey and basketball are still playing and dominating the TV, and it's June,
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About a month ago, we moved into the new house. We’ve combined households and my mom is living with us. So we built a large house. After a month the first full electricity bill is in and I was very impressed. Yes, I know, a sample size of one does not a successful experiment make, [...]
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For the last year or so, I have had sitting in my “to blog” pile a 2004 New Yorker article about the increasing height of Europeans relative to Americans. It has a lot of interesting content. It talks about how height peaked in Europe around 800 AD, before declining through to 1700 (largely associated with [...]The post Height through the millennia appeared first on Evolving Economics.
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“Women! Can’t live with them … pass the beer nuts.” Norm, Cheers It was on one of our regular graveyard strolls – east Highgate cemetery, I think – that Jenny told me she was moving to Cumbria with her new … Continue reading →
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A witty and engaging children's book that tells the true story of an internationally famous cockatoo who changed the way scientists think about dancing."If life doesn't give you fruit, you can always eat nuts. And if you don't like nuts, at least you can throw them on the floor, which is highly entertaining." ~Snowball the dancing cockatoo (p. 14).A couple years ago, Snowball the dancing cockatoo burst upon the scene after one of his YouTube videos went viral, receiving over 200,000 views in
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…one of us got married! As usual, one of us was much more photogenic than the other. Normal(-ish) service will be resumed next week, but until then – have a great week!
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In my earlier post on Prince William’s mtDNA lineage, and its possible Indian provenance, I didn’t address the issue of genetic privacy in much detail. The discussion is relevant in this case because BritainsDNA inferred his lineage by looking at distant relatives. Assuming that the biological pedigree we have for William is correct, he must [...]
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The whole “genome paper” genre is probably in decline now, as sequencing is so easy that there is little value in just throwing out data with no questions attached. That being said I think the new project to sequence the Tuatara genome is pretty worthwhile. The reason is evident to the right, as this lineage [...]
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CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–The IBA meeting has now ended and, as this is posted, I should be winging my way home across the Atlantic. It was a fantastic experience. This is a unique organization, of which I’m now proud to be a member of council. It is a combination of paleontologists and biologists who share a [...]
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Things have been quite around here for a while. Largely for the typical boring reasons, the pressure to get work done and on to journals that might publish it leaving little spare time. On top of that the non-science time I've had lately has ...
