Comments on: I've got your missing links right here (29th January 2011)

By: zackoz

zackoz — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:34:44 +0000

Ed, re Tanya Monro, it looks like she is the “South Australian Australian of the year”, if that makes any sense.

I don’t quite understand the system and I’m too lazy to research it, but I suspect that the various state nominations go to a central body which then decides the actual Ozzie of the year.

South Australia is a very worthy and respectable part of the country, but it doesn’t represent the whole place.

I really hope she wins, as a scientist getting up would provide a good …I was going to say role model, but that doesn’t quite work…maybe just a good example. Science has an ambiguous image in the public mind (though not nearly as contested – hurrah – as in the US).

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:45:09 +0000

lol! Fibonacci pigeons!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:35:12 +0000

An awesome list as always. Loved the leafcutter pictures, the not-so-big mammals and the cephalopods. Post pretty much anything about animals and I’m hooked. : )

By: Walter S. Andriuzzi

Walter S. Andriuzzi — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:27:32 +0000

The Tolkien quotes in the deep time article – didn’t really understand what they had to do with it, but still loved them

By: Brian Switek

Brian Switek — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:21:38 +0000

“So how do geologists cope with insanely long periods of time?”

I thought that was what all the beer drinking was about

(And thanks for the links, Ed!)

By: alice

alice — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:18:47 +0000

Re: Kindle thing - I LOVED how Ben Goldacre gave us a short version of the story (in case you were to busy to read publishing weekly's whole thing...)

By: Wim

Wim — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:17:52 +0000

I’d hoped the Journal of Universal Rejection would be open-acces, but no such luck.