Remembering Dr. Grover Krantz (From “California”, the Magazine of the Cal Alumni Association)
Dr. Krantz and I shared an alma mater, 60 years apart. Go Bears! The Man, The Myth, and The Legend of Grover Krantz
Artificial Intelligence and the PGF: (Deep)Mind the Gaps
Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning has become all the rage over the last decade, especially with the publication of AlexNet in 2012 combined with the rising power of parallel computing via graphics cards (GPUs). AlexNet was the seminal work spurring the rise of deep CNNs (Convolutional Neural Nets, not Anderson…
Size Matters: The Square-Cube Law and Really Big Feet
Size is a trait so strongly associated with Bigfoot it has become embedded in its mythology. After all, "Big" is half of the name. But just how Big are we talking about here? Short of weighing one in a zoo, there are a few mathematical ways we could guess the…
From the Archives: A Must-Hear Interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum
This was a fantastic interview from 2019 with Kelly @ Frightday, where the good Doctor lectures for a full 2 hour class length on everything from the PGF to population size estimates. We need more interviews and scientific discussions like this, from more people! https://www.frightday.com/a-conversation-with-jeff-meldrum/
A Way-Too-Detailed Analysis of Projectile Throwing in Chimpanzees (And Resulting Effects in Brain Matter and Behavior)
As we've previously stated on this blog, if you want to do science, you need to get familiar with how scientists talk (and write) so that you will be better equipped to 1) discern what is research, and what is BS and 2) effectively communicate your ideas in findings in…
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: A Reintroduction to Scientific Fundamentals
With the fresh resurrection of this blog, we at the Olympic Project would like to ring in the New Year with some something very old, but very important: a series of essays reiterating the fundamental building blocks of biology, zoology, and the scientific and academic process in general, all reduced…
From MonsterQuest Producer Doug Hajicek: WANTED – SUSPECTED FINGER GREASE (Interview Coming Soon!)
Please see the below message from Legend Meets Science and MonsterQuest producer Doug Hajicek. There have been many suspected cases of Sasquatch fingerprints left behind on glass and other surfaces. Our own Shelly Covington-Montana will be recording an interview detailing how to collect samples of such residue for potential DNA…
Merry Christmas!
Hey everyone, as you may have noticed, we're back after a...fairly long hiatus. "We" being us web monkeys who do online PR. The OP has never gone anywhere and has been quite busy the last few years. This year has been a rough one, and as a result both research…
