Conflation of Ignorances

Conflation of Ignorances

An interesting bit that came my way, which I will let stand by itself:    So it is sometimes hard to browse through a popular bookshop without encountering the kind of volume that takes UFO…
Quantum Teleportation Of Cats

Quantum Teleportation Of Cats

Time to reveal the solution to the cat killing mystery introduced in “If Schrödinger's Cats All Die, Do the Alive ones go to Hell?” and further explained in “Rotating Schrödinger's Cat to Death”. The…
Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Elasmosaurs loved their gastroliths – round, polished stomach stones – have been found amid their bones. These stones would have been swallowed to help grind down their catch and lower their natural…
Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Elasmosaurs loved their gastroliths – round, polished stomach stones – have been found amid their bones. These stones would have been swallowed to help grind down their catch and lower their natural…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

What do you get if you mix a jellysifh (Peytoia), a sponge (Laggania), a crustacean tail, a crustacean abdomen (Tuzoia) and some Sidneyia tails? The answer is Anomalocaris, a very unusual fossil…