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Archive for March, 2007
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007Chicago just approved a $500 million backstop to its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. That is not an automatic $500 million outlay; it is more like half a billion dollars of collateral in case the private development funding comes up short. That’s still a lot of money, but the City Council […]
Happy Pi Day
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Today, March 14, is Pi Day, so everyone get out there and have some pie. The true Pi moment will come in eight years on 03/14/15 at 9:26 PM (credit: Ian).
You can celebrate even though it’s irrational.
Thanks to In Limine for reminding me.
Evolution, Creation, and Why Kirk Cameron Stinks
Monday, March 12th, 2007This column will appear appeared in the Georgetown Law Weekly on March 20, 2007.
Before coming to law school, I was a paleontology graduate student at the University of Michigan. I studied, specifically, the life and migration of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), and in retrospect was much, much cooler than torts. One thing we […]
Georgetown wins Big East title
Sunday, March 11th, 2007(Photo by Suzy Allman for the New York Times)
The Hoyas beat Pittsburgh last night 65-42, and it was every bit the beat-down it seems. Here is the CNN/SI article about it.
I, for one, am really excited about the conference championship. I’ve read and heard sports journalists say that the conference is less […]
Under Constuction
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Hello to everyone - I am in the process of putting this webpage together. Thanks for your patience.
To go to my old web page, go to http://web.mac.com/paleobiology/
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UPDATE: I think I’m happy with this page now. If you have any comments, please pass them on.