An Early Jurassic ammonoid

June 29, 2020 Emily Damstra Multimedia

This past April I completed a commission for amateur paleontologist W.C. (Cory) Brimblecombe, who asked me to create a painting of an Early Jurassic ammonoid fossil. (Ammonoids are extinct relatives of squid.) Cory envisioned a collage of four components: the fossil specimen in two views, a reconstruction of the living animal in color, and a map of the area where he collected the fossil. The first challenge was that I would not have access to…

An Early Jurassic ammonoid

June 29, 2020 Emily Damstra Multimedia

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June 28, 2020 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Seriously, could there be anything more annoying than failing to specify where items of interest are? I know, itâ€™s not â€œconventionalâ€, but come on. Update: And yes, thats a typo. I donâ€™t have the original anymore, so thereâ€™s nothing I can do to fix it!

#565 The Great Wide Indoors

June 28, 2020 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

We're all spending a bit more time indoors this summer than we probably figured. But did you ever stop to think about why the places we live and work as designed the way they are? And how they could be designed better? We're talking with Emily Anthes about her new book "The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of how Buildings Shape our Behavior, Health and Happiness".

Cheating

June 25, 2020 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

The best strategy to defend students from copying.

To The Brim

June 23, 2020 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

â€œIf itâ€™s not in danger of overflowing, youâ€™re not doing it right!â€

Definition

June 21, 2020 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

â€œOkay class, weâ€™ve spent a lot of time writing down these complicated expressions. Well, it turns out we canâ€™t actually evaluate these, so weâ€™re just going to use some tricks to get approximate solutions.â€

#564 Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies

June 21, 2020 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Around the end of the second world war, a set of tiny miniature dioramas depicting a variety of deaths were created to help teach investigators how to approach a crime scene. You may have heard of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and their maker, Frances Glessner Lee... but you probably didn't know how Lee became interested in forensics, that she used her inheritance to establish a department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School…

Strategic Email

June 18, 2020 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Donâ€™t tell me Handwaving never gives out good advice for academia!

Whales in warming waters

June 18, 2020 pineapplesandwhales Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia

Global warming is making normally frigid Arctic waters more hospitable to more species. Killer whales in Canadian waters are gradually expanding their range northward, which isn’t great news for the narwhal (unicorns of the sea!) that live there. Read all about it in Global Change Biology ($): Killer whale abundance and predicted narwhal consumption in the Canadian Arctic. (or watch a video!) Here’s a link to a related article Killer whale migration upends Arctic waters…

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An Early Jurassic ammonoid

An Early Jurassic ammonoid

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#565 The Great Wide Indoors

Cheating

To The Brim

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#564 Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies

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Whales in warming waters

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