Archive for May, 2008
Maintenance
Just wanted to let folks know that I upgraded the site’s Wordpress software over the weekend. This should be entirely transparent to you, but if you find SOS behaving oddly in any way, please drop me a line and let me know…
Casual Friday — the eyes have it
OK, I’ll admit that this video has really been making the rounds this week. But I’ll just pile on anyway, and present to you this very good video explaining the evolutionary process behind the eye…
Carnivalia 4/30 - 5/6
The past week’s crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #19 — the X-13
This week’s picture comes to you from the San Diego Air & Space Museum — it’s of another interesting piece of experimental aircraft history, the Ryan X-13…
Casual Friday — Transitional Fossils videos
For today’s video viewing, I thought I’d pass along a couple of really good videos that I found on Afarensis (but which were previously highlighted by The Panda’s Thumb). Confused by what it means for something to be a “transitional fossil?” Watch these two (total run time of about 18 minutes), and you should have a good handle on things…
