Seriously, Megatherium americanum, do you even lift?
Seriously, Megatherium americanum, do you even lift?
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I wanted to do a three-way comparison between my carnivoran skulls, but I’m too impatient to wait till I’ve got the fox’s skull out of its head.
There’s no sense in decapitating a badger if you’re not going to make good use of the severed head. So here’s what I did with mine.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been fortunate enough to acquire two medium-sized native mammals, both roadkill specimens in good conditions: a fox and a badger: {.aligncenter .size-large .wp-image-13160 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“13160” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2016/03/27/happy-easter-i-celebrated-by-decapitating-a-fox-and-a-badger/2016-03-27-15-09-09/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/2016-03-27-15-09-09.jpg”
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I wanted to get my initial report on the Joni Mitchell conference out quickly. But since posting it, more thoughts have bubbled up through my mind. I’m thinking here mostly about how a humanities conference varies from a science one.
I got back this lunchtime from something a bit different in my academic career. I attended Court and Spark: an International Symposium on Joni Mitchell, hosted by the university of Lincoln and organised by Ruth Charnock.
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