20 years and $7.6 Million

So apparently today is the 71st anniversary of the premiere of the Wizard of Oz, thanks google, but as you may have guessed from the title that isn't what this post is about. Today marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex. Sue may be the most famous example of her species and a lot of that revolves around the long and difficult story it took for her to finally end up at The Field Museum in Chicago, Brian Switek at Dinosaur Tracking has a good summary of the events (here) so I don't feel that I need to rehash them.

What often gets left out of the story is that while yes there was the whole disagreement over where the fossil was found, typically the Black Hills Institute (BHI) is treated as the good guys who got screwed over. While the BHI is better than most it is still in fact a for profit group. So this means that while they do publish a lot on what they find they still do sell to private collections so examples like this whale will not be around for future research. I have discussed this previously so I won't worry about retyping it up here.

Alumna sues college

So I know everything has been very Virginia Tech centered recently so here is something different!

Wow is this really what we have come to?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/03/new.york.jobless.graduate/index.html

1) A 2.7 is not stellar
2) People with experience are having trouble finding jobs what makes you think you are so special
3) There are jobs out there you might just have to leave the city you are in
4) They might not help out the 4.0s more it is just easier for them to find a job

I hope to be able to keep up with this story and will let you know how it ends. Also the next 2 weeks I will be running around the Eastern and Central US like a chicken with its head cut off so don't expect too many posts.