A Trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science
My husband and I recently attended the World Autism Organization congress, held every four years. This year it was hosted in Houston, Texas. Although my daily work is filled with […]
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Chicago’s Field Museum
Recently my husband and I spent a few days in Chicago and of course, being the science nuts that we are, had to spend a day at the world famous […]
The Inner Core of the Earth May Drive Climate Change
Most people have a hard time imagining that earth’s climate hasn’t always been what it is today. And the global warming that we see occurring now is perhaps even more […]
Change Is Coming – Lessons from Geology on Extinction Events
I’ve been reading the second edition of Michael Benton’s, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, which tells of what we know of the Permian extinction […]
The Science of Salt Lake City Continued…
My trip in Salt Lake City, Utah, continues this week and I have more photos to share, exploring reptilian, dinosaur, and mammalian evolutions. Following our trip to the Natural History […]
Changing Our View of Dinosaurs: The Deep Roots of Bird Evolution
For many of us, the movie, Jurassic Park, summarizes our concepts of dinosaurs: giant long-toothed ferocious reptiles. Though the Victorians once considered them slow, stupid, and plodding, for those who […]
Ancient Bipedal Crocodiles? Oh Hell Yeah
If you’re anything like me, I used to think that dinosaurs were dinosaurs and crocodiles were crocodiles. Easy to tell apart, right? Of course. Because crocodiles were sprawling quadrupedal semi-aquatic […]
International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) 2014
From left to right: Ami Klin, Laura Klinger, Francesca Happé, and Joe Piven. My fiancé, Manny Casanova, and I just finished attending this year’s International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) […]
A Brief Tour through the Natural History Museum of London
Hi, everyone! I’ve arrived back home from a lovely two-week vacation in the south of England. Hope you all enjoyed the mini-tour through the Highclere Castle grounds last week– not […]
