There's a chance that, if I make a serious push this week, I can have a first pass through the book complete before Christmas. So, of course, I'm procrastinating madly.
I understand it's traditional to post pictures in these circumstances, so here's one of my favorite shots from the Japan pictures:
This is Kate getting some water out of the awesome dragon fountain at one of the Hongwan-ji temples in Kyoto. They're doing major renovations at the moment, hence the white construction fence, which made a very nice plain background for the dragon, and made this come out really well.
Right. With that out of the way, I'm going to shut down the blogrolling browser, and get to work. Really I am. Shut up, Scalzi.
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Definitely breaking new ground around here. A recent paper in PLoS ONE examines the hypotheses surrounding the ecology and evolution of Komodo Dragon saliva.