How On-Screen Women Scientists Can Reduce Sexism in Science

Lisa M. P. Munoz

When I was an engineering student at Cornell University, one of my first assignments in a science communications class was to analyze scientists in films to better understand public perception of science. Jurassic Park, Contact, Armageddon, Back to the Future—there...

July 11, 2019

Debunking Five Myths About Dinosaurs

“A grand tour of dinosaurs, from one of our most prolific natural history writers. I’ve been reading Donald Prothero’s books since I began studying geology in college, and here he delivers again, with a romping chronicle of some of the...

July 9, 2019

Seven Extraordinary Facts About Dinosaurs

“This book is excellent. Rather than simply a profile of twenty-five dinosaurs, it puts each of these in context of its discovery and significance in terms of the science of paleontology, as well as comparisons with close relations. Thus, it...

September 17, 2014

Video: John Pickrell Talks Flying Dinosaurs with ABC News

In the following video, John Pickrell, author of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds talks with Australian TV about recent discoveries about dinosaurs. Calling it a “Golden Age” in dinosaur research, Pickrell discusses the likelihood of feathered dinosaurs, recent...

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Tag: Jurassic Park

How On-Screen Women Scientists Can Reduce Sexism in Science

Lisa M. P. Munoz

Debunking Five Myths About Dinosaurs

Seven Extraordinary Facts About Dinosaurs

Video: John Pickrell Talks Flying Dinosaurs with ABC News