Completely OT... even though the 'T' is one of my favourites on PB in many a year. I managed to get my son's lava lamp working today. We had had trouble getting hold of the filament bu… (View Post)

Me too. I was studying geology in the mid 80s which was only a few years after Desmond's book on rethinking Dinosaurs came out. I did my dissertation on Eldridge and Gould's Punctuated Equi… (View Post)

Brilliant, thanks sir. Funnily enough my favourite fossil is a rather obscure Palaeozoic group of beasties called Graptolites. We used to draw them on boulders in mid Wales to confuse our lecturers o… (View Post)

Is PB ready for the Warm Blooded Dinosaur Debate yet I wonder :) (View Post)

Kind of ironic on another level given that Verhoeven also missed the point of the book he based his film on - without actualy bothering to read it. (View Post)