A month ago today, George Monbiot’s piece Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist was published in The Guardian. It stirred up a lot of debate, and has garnered 365 comments so far, most of them strongly supportive.
A month ago today, George Monbiot’s piece Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist was published in The Guardian. It stirred up a lot of debate, and has garnered 365 comments so far, most of them strongly supportive.
Matt, Darren and I were all in Lyme Regis last week for SVPCA 2011, the Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy — an excellent technical conference similar in some ways to SVP, but much nicer because it’s small enough that you can see all the talks and meet all the people.
A quick note to let you all know that George Monbiot’s piece Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist has been published in The Guardian, one of the four respected “broadsheet” national daily newspapers of the UK. (It was online yesterday, and is in today’s print edition.) A few key quotes: I encourage you to read the whole thing. None of this will be news to long-time SV-POW!
[This is a guest post by frequent commenter Heinrich Mallison . Heinrich is maybe best known to SV-POW! readers for his work on digital modelling of sauropodomorphs, though that may change now that his paper on sauropod rearing mechanics is out. Read on …] Maybe this post should have been titled “How sauropods breathed, ate, and farted”. Or maybe not.
Since the publication of Brontomerus , which let’s remember was only a couple of weeks ago, Matt’s had the rather bad manners to post about another new paper of his — a review of prosauropod pneumaticity which might be uncharitably summarised as “Were prosauropods pneumatic? The fossils say yes”.