Sunday, 16 September 2018

Speculative Biology with Dougal Dixon (and me) at TetZooCon, London, 6-7 October 2018

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Some of you may already know the Tetrapod Zoology blog written by Darren Naish. It has been hosted in various places over the years. It rec...
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Saturday, 1 September 2018

'After Man', by Dougal Dixon; a review with hindsight

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The book 'After Man' is arguably the best-known book in Speculative Biology. It first appeared in 1981, so you may well wonder why I...
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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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