Saturday, 4 August 2018

Is it cruel for giants to ride mammoths in Game of Thrones?

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In season 4, episode 9, of Game of thrones (GoT) there are several scenes of tame mammoths: in one, a mammoth is being ridden by a GoT gian...
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Saturday, 28 July 2018

Postcard from Furaha

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It took longer to get back to blogging than I thought, for several reasons. As usual I had less free time than planned and a shoulder proble...
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Monday, 14 May 2018

How do tetropters walk? (Tetropters IX)

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In a recent post I showed my latest animation of tetropter flight, using a brightly coloured farfalloid species as an example. As I wrote t...
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Thursday, 3 May 2018

Equations I: Drake's equation

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People with an interest in speculative biology will probably know Drake's equation well. It describes how many civilisations in our gala...
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Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Ten years on

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The first post of this blog was published on April 22, 2008, or ten years ago. I wrote several earlier progress reports. It is time for a ne...
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Friday, 30 March 2018

From freezing the anatomy of tetropters to op art (Tetropters VIII)

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Tetropters have been discussed in this blog several times. Eight posts were devoted to them ( one , two , three , three bis that doesn'...
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Saturday, 17 February 2018

Rusps turn out to follow biological rules about the weaponisation of tails

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I recently came across an interesting paper on the evolution of the use of tails as weapons in Earth animals. This turns out to be a fairly ...
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