Podcast appearances and mentions of Bruce D Patterson

In 1898, two lions descended on a company of railway workers in British East Africa. For nine months they terrorized the camp, carrying off a new victim every few days, as engineer John Patterson struggled to stop them. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll track the "man-eaters of Tsavo" and learn what modern science has discovered about their motivations. We'll also consider more uses for two cars and puzzle over some prolific penguins. Intro: MIT drops a piano off a building every year. French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée proposed honoring Isaac Newton with a sarcophagus inside a 500-foot globe. Sources for our feature on the Tsavo man-eaters: John Henry Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, 1907. J.H. Patterson, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo: The Lions That Stopped a Railway," Wide World Magazine 10:55 (October 1902), 3-12; 10:56 (November 1902), 112-118. J.H. Patterson, "The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo," Field Museum of Natural History, 1926. Philip Caputo, Ghosts of Tsavo, 2002. Bruce D. Patterson, The Lions of Tsavo, 2004. Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans and Thomas Patrick Gnoske, "The Science of 'Man-Eating' Among Lions Panthera leo With a Reconstruction of the Natural History of the 'Man-Eaters of Tsavo,'" Journal of East African Natural History 90:1 (2001), 1-41. T.P. Gnoske, G.G. Celesia, and J.C. Kerbis Peterhans, "Dissociation Between Mane Development and Sexual Maturity in Lions (Panthera leo): Solution to the Tsavo Riddle?" Journal of Zoology 270:4 (2006), 551-560. Justin D. Yeakel, et al., "Cooperation and Individuality Among Man-Eating Lions," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:45 (2009), 19040-19043. Bruce D. Patterson, et al., "Livestock Predation by Lions (Panthera leo) and Other Carnivores on Ranches Neighboring Tsavo National Parks, Kenya," Biological Conservation 119:4 (2004), 507-516. Bruce D. Patterson, "On the Nature and Significance of Variability in Lions (Panthera leo)," Evolutionary Biology 34:1-2 (2007), 55-60. Bruce D. Patterson, Ellis J. Neiburger, Samuel M. Kasiki, "Tooth Breakage and Dental Disease as Causes of Carnivore-Human Conflicts," Journal of Mammalogy 84:1 (Feb. 28, 2003), 190–196. Roland W. Kays and Bruce D. Patterson, "Mane Variation in African Lions and Its Social Correlates," Canadian Journal of Zoology 80:3 (March 2002), 471. Larisa R.G. DeSantis and Bruce D. Patterson, "Dietary Behaviour of Man-Eating Lions as Revealed by Dental Microwear Textures," Scientific Reports 7:1 (2017), 904. Ellis J. Neiburger and Bruce D. Patterson, "The Man-Eaters With Bad Teeth," New York State Dental Journal 66:10 (2000), 26. "The Tale Teeth Tell About Legendary Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo," Laboratory Equipment, April 19, 2017. Alba Tomasula y Garcia, "The Lions of Tsavo: Man-Made Man-Eaters," Western Humanities Review 68:1 (Winter 2014), 195-200. Paul Raffaele, "Man-Eaters of Tsavo," Smithsonian Magazine, January 2010. Jason Bittel, "Why Man-Eating Lions Prey on People -- New Evidence," National Geographic, April 19, 2017. Mindy Weisberger, "What Drove Tsavo Lions to Eat People? Century-Old Mystery Solved," Live Science, April 19, 2017. David Salisbury, "The Tale Teeth Tell About the Legendary Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo," Vanderbilt University, April 19, 2017. Can Buckley, "Irishman's Account of Man-Eating Lions, 'the Ghost' and 'the Darkness,' in Africa," Irish Examiner, April 29, 2017. Ed Yong, "How Many People Did the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo Actually Eat?" Discover, Nov. 2, 2009. Gemma Tarlach, "Infamous Man-Eaters of Tsavo Ate Like Zoo Animals," Discover, April 19, 2017. Jennifer McNulty, "Legendary 'Man-Eating' Lions of Tsavo Likely Ate About 35 People -- Not 135, Say Scientists," UCSC Newscenter, Nov. 1, 2009. Hannah Osborne, "Infamous Man-Eating Tsavo Lions Were Apparently Suffering From Toothache," Newsweek, April 19, 2017. Restored by a taxidermist, the lions are currently on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Listener mail: "Sweden's Jobs Agency to Lay Off 4,500 Staff," The Local Sweden, Jan. 30, 2019. Greg Myre, "Gas Lines Evoke Memories of Oil Crises in the 1970s," The Picture Show, National Public Radio, Nov. 10, 2012. Wikipedia, "Odd–Even Rationing" (accessed Feb. 23, 2019). Wikipedia, "1973 Oil Crisis" (accessed Feb. 23, 2019). Wikipedia, "1979 Oil Crisis" (accessed Feb. 23, 2019). Carl Bialik, "Fuel Rationing Is Hard to Gauge," Wall Street Journal, Nov. 16, 2012. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Mat Spedding, based on an item he heard on the podcast No Such Thing As a Fish. Here are three corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). 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FKAjason and Roy "Charlemagne" Cleary are back to discuss some of their favorite super heroes! First on deck is "Dream of Terror" from Booster Gold (vol 1) #17 by Dan Jurgens, Arne Starr, Gene D'Angelo, Bob Lappan. Barbara Randall, and Bruce D. Patterson. It's Booster, Hawk, and Cheshire having some good clean desert fun. Then the SNGPOD team switches to "Mission Creep" from The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom (vol 1) #6 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Will Conrad, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte, Kristy Quinn, Jim Chadwick, and Anna Dittman. It's Captain Atom, Ultramax, General Eiling, and Genji having some good clean desert fun.

FKAjason and Roy "Charlemagne" Cleary are back to discuss some of their favorite super heroes! First on deck is "Dream of Terror" from Booster Gold (vol 1) #17 by Dan Jurgens, Arne Starr, Gene D'Angelo, Bob Lappan. Barbara Randall, and Bruce D. Patterson. It's Booster, Hawk, and Cheshire having some good clean desert fun. Then the SNGPOD team switches to "Mission Creep" from The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom (vol 1) #6 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Will Conrad, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte, Kristy Quinn, Jim Chadwick, and Anna Dittman. It's Captain Atom, Ultramax, General Eiling, and Genji having some good clean desert fun.

The gang discuss two papers that show how diet can impact stress, strain, and wear patterns of the tooth and jaw, specifically on therizinosaur dinosaurs and lions. Also, James mistakes cats for people, Amanda makes the second worse joke of the podcast, and Curt tries to advertise at the worst possible times. Also cannibalism. If you want to support the podcast, you can go to www.patreon.com/palaeoafterdark to find out more.   Up-Goer Five Summary (Amanda Edition): Today our friends talk about big animals with no hair that had big long angry things on their hands that could hurt you. We do not know much about these big animals with no hair that had big long angry things on their hands that could hurt you. For a long time we did not know what they ate or how they lived or even what they looked like. Now we know that they are round and have very long arms. They are brothers of the big angry animals with no hair that have very large teeth and short arms. But these big animals with no hair and long angry things on their hands that can hurt you are not like their brothers that are big and angry with large teeth and short arms because they eat different things. The big animals with no hair that have very large teeth and short arms eat other big animals with no hair. And animals with hair. And any animals. The big animals with no hair that have long angry things on their hands that can hurt you do not eat other big animals with no hair. They eat leaves. When we used new ideas from brain-boxes to look at the heads of the big animals with no hair that have long angry things on their hands that can hurt you we see that they eat leaves and not other big animals with no hair.   Our friends also talk about big cats that ate people.    References:  Lautenschlager, Stephan. "Functional niche partitioning in Therizinosauria provides new insights into the evolution of theropod herbivory." Palaeontology 60.3 (2017): 375-387. DeSantis, Larisa RG, and Bruce D. Patterson. "Dietary behaviour of man-eating lions as revealed by dental microwear textures." Scientific reports 7.1 (2017): 904.   "Honey Bee", "In Your Arms", "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed by Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Listen to Roy and Jay via the world's most sensitive microphone as they discuss "Runback" from Booster Gold (vol 1) #15 by Dan Jurgens, Bob Lewis, Bruce D. Patterson, Gene D'Angelo, Augustin Mas, and Barbara Randall. Jay fights a cold as the two then discuss "Back to the Future" from The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom (vol 1) #3 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Will Conrad,  Marguerite Sauvage, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte, Jim Chadwick, and Kristy Quinn.

Listen to Roy and Jay via the world’s most sensitive microphone as they discuss “Runback” from Booster Gold (vol 1) #15 by Dan Jurgens, Bob Lewis, Bruce D. Patterson, Gene D’Angelo, Augustin Mas, and Barbara Randall. Jay fights a cold as the two then discuss “Back to the Future” from The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom (vol 1) #3 by Cary Bates, Greg Weisman, Will Conrad,  Marguerite Sauvage, Ivan Nunes, Saida Temofonte, Jim Chadwick, and Kristy Quinn.

Mike and Peggy preview the Green Living Expo at McHenry County College, celebrate #BatWeek with Bruce D. Patterson, MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum, and recap their visit to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie to look for bison.

Vertigo, B. Clay Moore and Bad Karma, Deadpool, Spider-Man #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, Sam Wilson, Captain America #6 by Nick Spencer, Joe Bennett, and Belardino Brabo, Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless and Javier Rodriguez, Alex Nino, Legion of Superheroes V2 Annual #1 by Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, and Bruce D. Patterson, Justice League, Barry Kitson, X-Files, Flash and Supergirl, Walking Dead, Contest of Champions, Battleworld, Squadron Supreme #3 by James Robinson, Leonard Kirk, and Paul Neary, Crisis on Infinite Earths, 52, Kamandi #50 by Denny O'Neil, Dick Ayers, and Alfredo Alcala, Pencil Head #1 by Ted McKeever from Image, and a whole mess more!

Third generation synchrotrons provide an average X-ray brightness 109 times that of a laboratory source, making trivial many experiments which were formerly impossible. But standard short-wavelength synchrotron light is also incoherent and limited. Prof. Bruce D. Patterson from PSI presents the operating principle for a national XFEL facility, the SwissFEL.