Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Review of the Aachen Memorandum

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I picked this book up at a book fair after having read that it was a satire on bureaucracy and 'political correctness'. Although I a...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Dragonriders of Pern

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Having now read the first volume of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern , an apparently wildly popular kind of science fiction-y serie...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Prince

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I have arrived in Shenzhen, China, for the International Botanic Congress. I meant to upload a few pictures of the Luohu district today but ...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Sturgeon's law

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While on the topic of the book fair, I have to say that as much as I love browsing through the books and finding gems, it is also one of the...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Fitzpatricks War

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So I have just finished Theodore Judson's Fitzpatrick's War, a book I mentioned having bought a few weeks ago and that I took onto t...
Monday, March 28, 2016

The Australian Native Bee Book

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We went for a walk at the Australian National Botanic Gardens on the weekend, and I saw Tim Heard's The Australian Native Bee Book at t...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Discordant paraphylies executed

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Strangely, editors of systematics journals do not appear to tire of opinion pieces rehashing the discussion about paraphyletic taxa that had...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Conan the Cimmerian

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I have made it a habit over the last few years to collect what one might want to call fantasy/science fiction pulp literature classics, eith...
Friday, March 4, 2016

I have no idea why anybody uses LaTex

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When I was in what would here be called high school, in the early 1990ies, I already had a mathematics teacher who was evangelising for LaTe...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Patrocladistics 3: The logic behind it

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After looking at what patrocladistics is , how it works, and what happens if we add intermediate ancestors, this third and last post on the...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Patrocladistics 1: How does it work? And a contrived example

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As the approach is often mentioned in pro-paraphyly publications as an objective method of delimiting paraphyletic taxa, I thought I should ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

Reading Stormfront, Book One of the Dresden Files

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The last three weeks have been a bit full; first field work, then meeting, then moving house, and then a bad cold. But although we are still...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

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I spent much of the week at a meeting in Tasmania. On the last day I had time to browse a book store and finally bought the first Foundation...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

PhyloPic

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A few weeks ago we discussed a paper in our journal club that used dinosaur silhouettes in its figures and referenced PhyloPic as the sourc...
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Chance dispersal, 'normal' dispersal, and long distance dispersal ... confused yet?

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Having now picked up Michael Heads' second contribution to the recent issue of Australian Systematic Botany , Biogeography by revelation...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

How not to convince me that panbiogeography is science

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A few days ago, the newest issue of Australian Systematic Botany appeared, and I was rather surprised by the contents, for two of the four ...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

Field guide to the native plants of the ACT

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A few weeks ago Meredith Cosgrove self-published her Photographic Guide to Native Plants of the Australian Capital Territory . It is a ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Comparison of phylogenetic tree viewing programs: TreeView, FigTree, Dendroscope

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It seems as if I could productively conclude the theme of how to root phylogenetic trees by providing an overview of the tree viewers I have...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Back to Richard Zander's Framework: about a book review

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Richard Zander, the author of the Framework for Post-Phylogenetic Systematics (which I reviewed for a society newsletter , see also my blog...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

The Dark Side of the Sun

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I have also just recently re-read one of Terry Pratchett's Science Fiction novels, The Dark Side of the Sun . Its message...