Book shopping

Just as carbs consumed during quarantine don’t count, books purchased during quarantine don’t count! Here’s my latest stash, supporting three local indie bookstores.

Public Health

Hey, just a reminder. Veterinarians are trained in virology, immunology, and epidemiology. The promotion of public health is literally in our oath. Veterinarians have been fighting non-COVID coronaviruses for decades, such as Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). I have been studying and treating infectious diseases for 27 years. This IS my lane. Wear your mask and social distance, regardless of what the politicians say!

Volunteering in quarantine

NHMU is closed but digitization is a way to still volunteer (sitting on the couch with the dog, and wearing jammies)! Transcribing paleontology catalog notes from the early 1900's!

"Dinosaurs Rediscovered"

Currently reading. SCIENCE! Benton talks about the hard science behind recent paleontology discoveries. Like this cute dude on the cover, Sinosauropteryx. We KNOW he was orange with a fashionable orange-and-white stripey tail because of scanning electron microscope studies of pigment melanosomes in fossil feathers. Cool!

DINOFEST

 It's DINOFEST at the Natural History Museum of Utah!

Allosaurus jimmadseni -- new species just described two days ago!

Me and baby Utahceratops

“Down with Meteors”
“See New Dino Species”
“Antarctic Dinosaurs”

"End of the Megafauna"

“End of the Megafauna” by Ross MacPhee was on the Smithsonian list of best science books of 2019, so I got it from the library. It has wonderful illustrations, like this lounging Smilodon and grazing Glyptodon. Don’t you just want to rub the kitty’s fuzzy tummy? Never mind those giant fangs; I’m sure he’s cuddly.

Behind the Scenes Weekend at the Museum

The best part of the year is Behind the Scenes Weekend at the Natural History Museum of Utah. This year I volunteered showing guests the digitization project (digitizing all 1.8 million specimens in the collections). Even for volunteers, Behind the Scenes is the only time people can see the items that are not on display.