Two stories of bones believed to be in backwards: old and new. (Thanks to investigator Lauren Maurer for bringing the new case to our attention.)
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Why NASA wrote backwards in space
David Brooks writes: NASA has launched – ha! get it? – a pretty cool Web site explaining the history of space suits…. Here’s my favorite factoid from the site: The writing on the gauges and dials on the front of suits used for spacewalks is backwards because the astronauts inside the suit have to use […]
Life, art, scrambled dinosaurs — again
Dinosaurs upside down, backwards, or scrambled are the subject of art yet again imitating life. In this case it’s art imitating life about the art of trying to describe life. The Onion has just published a splendid parody article called “Paleontologists: ‘We’ve Been Looking At Dinosaurs Upside Down“. But this joke has been lived out, […]