Showing posts with label colin tudge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colin tudge. Show all posts

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Lucy Highfield or Piltdown Man?

Well, folks sure are abuzz over ProjectX, the secret project/book/documentary/press conference regarding, well, a secret project destines (according to History Channel) to have global impact after which nothing will ever be the same. Ahem. We will see.

I wrote the other day that it may well be an evolution topic, such as the missing link, with possibly author Colin Tudge.

Twitter searches turned up this:
"Colin Tudge is a British science writer specializing "natural history in general, evolution & genetics." He's not a bad fit for #ProjectX"

LOL, the Norman Public Library has a copy on order. It is titled Project X by Lucy Highfield and synopsis is "discoveries in science".

"Lucy Highfield" is code for Leakey's hominid fossil Lucy, found in a high field. Follow it on twitter #ProjectX

Thursday, May 14, 2009

They think they found the missing link, or something

The latest internet rumor:

History Channel says they will have it. Colin Tudge and Josh Young have written a book called "The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor" due to be released on May 20. The History Channel will air a documentary on May 25, with a press conference afterwards. The authors have been sworn to secrecy until that time. Even the ISBN description (ISBN:9780316070089) of the book masks its title and cover art. However, the cover purportedly has a fossilized hand and arm and a skeleton.

The blurb: "Lying inside a high security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading museums, is a discovery that will change textbooks, change science, and change how we understand the human race. The author of Untitled has been given exclusive access to all of the research and the team of top scientists who have been validating the discovery, the announcement of which will send shock waves around the world. The discovery will be announced at a major press conference followed by a media blitz and a documentary that will air on the History Channel following the press conference."

History Channel commercial:



This ought to be interesting...stay tuned