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Science.

Albert Street Fossil

This rare fossil of an armour-plated worm was dug out of an Albert Street construction site in 1997, discovered among the rubble at a dump-site in Nepean, and just recently identified as a plumulitid machaeridian, a relative of modern leeches and earthworms that existed between 480 and 250 million years ago. But where is James Sherwood, the guy who found it?

Tesla!

It's Nikola Tesla's 153rd birthday.  In that century and a half he has gone from genius to kook to genius again. Electrical engineers are just beginning to get their heads around his concept of wireless energy transmission.  The upshot being that you may soon be able to power your laptop without plugging it in. He is presently thought of so highly by the corporate world that Google has posted this special birthday logo today, and a car company has taken his name.  

And of course there's Beaton's comic.  Tesla!

Nick Longrich, Artist and Paleontologist

Nick Longrich is a paleontologist at the University of Calgary and a specialist in the up till now unexplored field of teensy weensy dinosaurs.  And like the great naturalists of the 18th century he can draw like you wouldn't believe. Here is an article about Nick's newly described Hesperonychus elizabethae, a little wee raptor, and here is his website containing other dinosaur artwork, including the Archaeopteryx lithographica shown above, with some nifty Photoshop tips.  Douglas