The Dragon's Tales

Christmas is here and that means that I am off for a week and change with the lab shutting down. We'll be going off to my aunt's fo...

Again this is Dr Ron Blakey's work.

At 125 ft and 48 tons, that's a big monster. Poor Seismosaurus - which was excavated near where I grew up - is getting competition!

Chances of a Friday or Saturday shuttle landing at White Sands Space Harbor are greater than they have been since the shuttle landed at Whit...

The Commonwealth of Independent States meets the interests of all its members and the international community. It has potential for develop...

This blog has some very interesting paleontology related articles. It also has some rather, to me, tasteless comics. I think that the forme...

Dr Ron Blakey has an interesting set of paleogeography maps of the world and especially NorAm. These are interesting to constrast with Dr S...

Scientific computing has often been called the third approach to scientific discovery, emerging as a peer to experimentation and theory. His...

[My wife the hot chick] Razib has a reaction to some of the reactions to his post about 'hot chicks' and science fiction . The ...

Kumar said that, after a series of discussions within India’s scientific community, ISRO has decided to embark on a more ambitious series of...

ick. I'll skip the obvious comment.

My daughter has been hooked on penguins. Big time. It started innocently enough. She saw them in the San Francisco Zoo. They have a nice...

A group of Fresno businessmen announced Wednesday that they have formed a corporation and signed a letter of intent with a power-plant devel...

This actually evolved out of a SHWI discussion . This is another rough cut drawing. This one was done in autocad. This is far from done. A...

The federal government has turned down a request by Canada's space industry to support a contract that would have allowed the companies ...

I consider that this blog belongs in part to the HPC arena. I don't blog too often about it though. Doesn't that seem a bit of a c...

Associate of Terra Soft, I would personally like to welcome everyone to the high performance computing (HPC) research consortium mailing lis...

One of our physicists (Heino Nitsche) was interviewed by a Brazilian newspaper wrt to the whole bit of scary goofiness related to the poloni...