Bigfoot Revealed | HISTORY This hour long special dropped tonight on the History Channel with relatively little fanfare. It's been a few years now since the Patterson-Gimlin Film was dragged out of the vault for an analysis and this time, for the first time ever Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Bill…
PBS has a long history of quality educational on air content, in large part because it is a non-profit operation funded from donations by educated nerds with disposable income. Contrary to many "documentary" channels, it is not beholden to advertisers or corporate profit motivations and as a result produces some…
This blog is intended to provide scientific context and theory for Sasquatch as a subfield of natural history and paleoanthropology. I don't want to engage in "debunking" threads or make a habit out of offering opinions on internet "evidence" on the regular, but there is educational value in pointing out…
Picture this: a young scientist is meticulously poring over piles of plaster in his lab, stroking his beard and sifting through fragmentary evidence trying to determine the validity of a giant creature that may not even exist. Is this early 2000s Jeff Meldrum, or perhaps another Sasquatch researcher digging through…
This is one of my favorite Bigfoot documentaries. It presents interviews of quality researchers like Dr. Meldrum and Thomas Steenburg without unnecessary dramatic editing and spin. When a statement is made by one of the interviewees, the corresponding evidence / images are immediately shown on screen to give visual aid…
The lack of a fossil record for apes in North America is a common hill for many skeptics to plant their flag on, but it is a hill made artificially tall by hindsight biases perpetuated in entertainment and media. Such a position presumes that all species must leave evidence of…
Ethology is an underappreciated field of biology that is often overshadowed by the more common 'E' keywords like Evolution, Environment, Ecology, Extinction, so on and so forth. I certainly didn't hear the term until well after college, let alone in a grade school science classroom. As an independent field of…
We at the Olympic Project would like to pay homage to our own patron saint "Patty" with a pointer to this 2013 paper in RHI by Bill Munns and Jeff Meldrum analyzing the presence of skin folds and body fat on the Patterson-Gimlin Film subject. Here's hoping you all "get…
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 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…
