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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…

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 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…

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…

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…