Science Sunday: Dinosaurs are (and were) Real

I’ve had a pretty fun summer.

Early in the summer, I met a man who believed that most everything in science is a conspiracy against his religion.

I’m not familiar with the beef between him and tens of thousands of scientists all of the world who don’t know him or his religion, but he was certain that the fossils I claimed to have seen in museums must be fakes. He was especially certain of this when the fossils were of early hominids.

I invited him to come to one museum so that he could see them for himself.

He wasn’t interested.

Here are a few pictures of fossils at The Field Museum. I didn’t take many. I really wish I could have captured a shot of the Giant Sloth skeleton. It is standing up with its front paws on a tree; it’s about 2 & 1/2 stories tall.

I always get an astounding feeling when I walk into a few of the exhibits at The Field Museum.  You step into a room and it is full of the fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs you have never even heard of before.

I highly recommend it.

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Field Museum

Hey, friends.

About a week ago, or so, I rode my bike to Chicago’s Field Museum for one of their free admission days.

It was a nice, longish bike ride.  Surprisingly, the museum doesn’t restrict much photography at all.  However, it was pretty dark throughout each exhibit which makes it tough for taking pictures.

My favorite items are the fossils. No doubt. But the rest is super incredible.

Coming in second and third are the stuffed animals throughout whatever section has all of the animals and then the Native American artifacts & architecture, etc.

Over the next few days I’ll upload a bunch of my favorite shots from this dark trip through the Field Museum.

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After a Month

Well that was a long month.

Flickr upgraded awesomely in the last month and allows much larger photos.  I’ve been looking around for a personal site that allows bigger images than I have here, but I’m still hoping someone can point me to a great and relatively cheap choice.

Anyway, I have so many shots jumbling up my computer that I can get back on the horse and upload more often.

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Kato is a lazy dog. He naps about 16 hours per day. He also seems to be getting a bit fat.

About a week ago, I stepped out of the shower and Kato was nowhere to be found.  Well, until I did find him, that is.

He started to growl as soon as I walked into the room. I found him in his a closet with his head shoved into his bag of kibble.

He went to town. And now, he is on a diet.

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