The Guardian published an article called “The day I removed a toy dinosaur from a woman’s vagina“. It’s a firsthand medical report by a student nurse who uses the pen name Poppy Ward. The article includes the image you see here, from an entity named Alamy: (Thanks to Adam K. Olson for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS QUESTION: Should […]
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Who’s behind the Taxonomy of Barney
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. […]
Controversy upon controversy: Not “Float, explode, or sink”, but rather *implode*?
The 2012 study “Float, explode or sink: postmortem fate of lung-breathing marine vertebrates,” which [as we mentioned here yesterday] was awarded the prestigious Senckenberg Award, does have its detractors. Or rather, detractor. Who advances a theory that certain carcasses implode. A.J. Van Loon [pictured here] of Adam Miczkiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, published a commentary about explaining why he […]
Float/explode/sink carcass study wins Senckenberg Award
Joyous news about a contrarian study of upside-down-carcass theory, reported this month in the journal that published the study: “Authors of outstanding article receive Senckenberg Award!” Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, November 2013. We are pleased to announce, that the Alexander von Humboldt-Gedächtnispreis 2013 was awarded to authors of the following article, published in the special issue […]