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Philip Currie on CBC Yesterday!

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I’d like to relay a story about what happened while I was having dinner at the on-campus dining hall yesterday.  I had a bunch of salad, and then decided I wanted something with a little more grease in it.  I went back into the Buffet area and cobbled together a makeshift poutine.  If you don’t know what poutine is, you’ve missed out on a lot of joy in life.

Anyway, I went back into the dining area and sat down by the TV (there is a massive TV screen).  And guess who was on CBC newsworld?  It was Philip Currie, talking about a new article he and another guy (Nicholas Longrich) have published about a new, incredibly puny carnivorous dinosaur:

The kitten-sized predator identified by paleontologists at the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta is the smallest carnivorous dinosaur ever found in North America. The next smallest meat-eating dinosaur ever found on the continent was about the size of a wolf. (CBC)

So that’s my story for the day.  Go to get poutine, and come back to a fascinating paleo story on CBC Newsworld!  And if you’re wondering, the poutine was pretty good too.

Read all about the new dinosaur at CBC.ca

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2 Responses to “Philip Currie on CBC Yesterday!”

  1. Prehistoric Insanity on March 20th, 2009 1:42 am

    Soon Nick will be a household name. He knows his stuff yo!

  2. Phyl on March 20th, 2009 4:49 pm

    Oh, I love Phil Currie! We had him as a guest one year at the SF&F convention in Calgary. He was there with his good friend, John Acorn (did you ever watch the Nature Nut TV show?). This was just after Jurassic Park had been released, and they did panels on the “science” of JP and whether it was possible. They were hilarious and fascinating.

    It was quite a weekend, actually. We also had an astronomer from the U of Calgary, and that happened to be the weekend when the Schumacher-Levy comet pieces were smashing into Jupiter. So every day, he would come in with brand new slides from Hubble Telescope pictures of Jupiter and the comet.

    Great weekend. Phil Currie is so friendly, and makes things fantastically clear to a lay audience.

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