The recent state-wide cold snap that left many Texans without electricity and water seems like a good time to consider Kim Stanley Robinson's book The Ministry for the Future.      This book is disaster novel wrapped loosely around a series of essays, stories, metaphors, reports and commentaries about economics, politics and social inequality. The […]

Image: Dinosaurus.nl Early Cretaceous Meat-Eating Dinosaurs of Maryland and Virginia   512 fossils from the Early Cretaceous of Maryland are currently stored at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. Of those most are bones of a large, long necked 4-legged dinosaur called Astrodon, which belongs to the Sauropod group. We also have bones from […]