]> Blogger Party - dinosaurs http://bloggerparty.com/taxonomy/term/53449/0 en http://bloggerparty.com/natural_history_museum_modifiied <!-- google_ad_section_start --> n/a<!-- google_ad_section_end --> Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Maine: The Way Life Should … um … http://bloggerparty.com/maine_the_way_life_should_um <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>For a number of years, the great American state of Maine sold itself with the slogan “The Way Life Should Be”. It’s changed now, the tourism board’s using <a target="new" href="http://www.visitmaine.com/">“It Must Be Maine”</a>. I wonder if they’ve replaced the <a target="new" href="http://people.jmu.edu/moghtamx/images/Wilderness/The%20way%20life%20should%20be,%20Maine,%20with%20Scott%20&amp;%20John%20(1992).jpg">signs at the state border crossings</a> yet.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> dinosaurs education efficient organisims Maine O Ceallaigh's Observations politics teaching Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:20:37 -0500 Sharpened Stones http://bloggerparty.com/sharpened_stones <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p>Extinction is inevitable. We can prolong it but we exist on a finite time line no matter how expansive. Happened to a billion species before us and it'll occur to a billion more after us. These species will have their hayedays; roaming the Earth (or whatever they might call it) consuming and devouring natural resources; perched at the top of the food chain.</p> <p>We are doomed by our inability to transcend our own limitations. We're built to go only so far. Take Australopithecus Africanus for example; inhabited the earth roughly 3 - 1.6 million years ago, that's an awful long time. But in those million plus years they never managed to develop any tools more complex than a sharpened stone, it never even occured to them to put it on the end of a stick and make a spear. Were they dumb? Sure by our standards; they just weren't built to think that far ahead and eventually they died off and a species more adept to the enviorment sprung up and took charge.</p> <!-- google_ad_section_end --> dinosaurs Evolution extinction human race Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:19:23 -0400