World Fantasy/Stoker awarded author, paleontologist (mosasaurs, turtles, PETM). @UAMNH & @Mcwane Research Assoc. 🐢 🦎🐍 Math, physics, & chess. they/them 🇨🇮

Birmingham, Ala.
Joined June 2009
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The Space Jockey set is absolutely amazing
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Happy 48th Birthday to the incredible Gwendoline Christie!
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Good news for a change.
Imagine that. Harvard is reinventing a great books college. And the students do really want to put down the phones and pick the classics up. “A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI,” said Peggy Urdan, a government and neuroscience major from Lexington, Mass. “The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.” wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl…
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Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how. trib.al/i316njW
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140 years ago Today, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York harbor and dedicated by president Grover Cleveland.
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The visuals of Denis Villeneuve’s ‘DUNE: PART THREE’. In theaters on December 18.
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A new megaraptorid dinosaur, Rinconraptor pipoae, has just been discovered in Argentine Patagonia! Other fossils in the area suggest the new dinosaur formed part of a local species cluster of megaraptorids. Full #OpenAccess Paper: doi.org/10.26879/1738
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Helen Levitt #photography Cat next to red car, New York, 1973
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This year, the 26th president's legacy received a remarkable new tribute: the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in the Badlands of North Dakota. @JeffreyBrown reports.
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**It looked like a spaceship. And you didn't even need to plug it in to watch TV.** In the early 1960s, Japan's Sharp introduced the TRP-801, a portable television that looked like something straight out of a science fiction movie. With its striking red-and-cream body, built-in carrying handle, telescopic antennas, and unusual metal stand, it was a remarkable example of Space Age design. But its most impressive feature was hidden inside. The TRP-801 used transistor technology and featured a rechargeable battery, allowing people to watch television without being connected to a wall outlet. Despite its colorful exterior, the screen itself displayed only black-and-white images. At a time when most televisions were bulky pieces of living-room furniture, the idea of carrying one around was remarkably futuristic. More than six decades later, this little Japanese television still looks ahead of its time. **Would you still want one of these in your home today?**
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I don't know if we talk about this enough. Colin Pennycuick's hypothetical bird ancestor from 1986...
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After seeing comparisons between Barack Obama and Donald Trump giving speeches over the weekend, here's another comparison about how they each talk. #Obama #Trump #presidential
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Happy 74th Birthday to Annie Potts!
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New polling shows the president underwater in 39 states and every major battleground one week before the midterm elections. newsweek.com/map-donald-trum…
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I never heard Obama call anyone fat, talk about penises or asses, lie about an election he lost, or threaten to punch a protester. I never watched him turn the presidency into a spectacle of insults & bizarre behavior. God, I miss having a dignified president who made us proud.
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98% of the refugees admitted to the U.S. under Trump have been white South Africans.
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WILDWOOD director Travis Knight says LAIKA will never use generative AI in its films. “AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.” (Via: theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra…)
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Here we go
BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4imQyUu
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