The Alcade wrote a short article, quite a while back, about the authors of the landmark study “The Taxonomy of Barney“. This image is from the original study: BONUS: Widipedia’s partial history of Barney the Dinosaur, which ignores the evidence presented by the “Taxonomy of Barney” authors as to whether Barney really is a dinosaur. […]
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Reflections from Darwin’s beard
Ed Theriot, co-author of the classic article “The Taxonomy of Barney“, writes after seeing a web site about Darwin’s beard: Musing on stuff that is not necessarily clearly connected to anything else: My dad and I were duck hunting one morning in South Louisiana. A cold front had just passed. The sun was not yet […]
New Barney-like organism discovered
The authors (with one substitution) of the classic report “The Taxonomy of Barney” wrote a new report based on a sighting of a different creature. Here’s an excerpt: The Barney organism was supposed to be a dinosaur, one which had a profound affection for (and affection returned by) juvenile humans. [In 1995] The researchers proved […]