Episode 79 – To Err is Human
This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 – The show starts this week with a hardy helping of pterosaur ptime when the Paleopals sit down to discuss past errors with David Hone and Ross Eglin. Be sure to scope out all the other projects they’re involved in at: pterosaur.net, Archosaur Musings and Ask A Biologist.
00:37:29 – In which potent potables are consumed.
00:42:50 – It’s a trip down found footage lane when the Paleopals set their sights skyward with a mission for fear in the new trailer for Apollo 18.
00:59:46 – Ben Goldacre, author of the book Bad Science, had some things to say on his secondary blog about the idea that science journalists should have science degrees. The Paleopals discuss with a bit of added insight from friend of the show Marissa!
01:14:28 – PaleoPOWs are like trivia, plural and interesting. This week Patrick delights that he has some actual snail mail, Charlie laments the state of our iTunes rating while praising Laura W. for saying something nice and Ryan has a rocking e-mail from Cori L.
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Music from this week’s show:
Wrong Thing Right Then – Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Do Wrong Right – The Devil Makes Three
Moons and Horror Shoes – The Zutons
Hard to Explain – The Strokes
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There are 5 Comments to "Episode 79 – To Err is Human"
Hi Guys,
Just wanted to say thanks again for having me and Ross on the show. It was great fun.
Cheers
Dave
With regard to Elgin and Hone, their paper on pterosaur wings was full of misinformation and wishful thinking best explained and illustrated here:
http://www.reptileevolution.com/pterosaur-wings.htm
and here:
http://www.reptileevolution.com/pterosaur-wings2.htm
and elsewhere within the site.
Yes, there are dissenting facts.
Oh dear, must we put up with this everywhere we go? If you have a contrary position, feel free to publish a paper in the literature. Feel free not to follow me around the web leaving comments like this everywhere I go…..
For Apollo 18 there is a bog plot hole… launching a Saturn V was always a big event, so how could the government have “covered up” the launch of an 18th mission if they only knew like 4 days into the mission that something was going wrong. Windmills do not work that way!
Arcachnophobia has a leg up on you guy’s scary movies, it totally scares the crap out of me, but Jaws kick your movies in the teeth. It’s so scary for me that I won’t go into the ocean, nor will I watch the derivitaves of it.