Richard Pallardy

Chicago

Writer, skeptic, critic, naturalist. Bylines: @NatGeo, @ScienceMagazine, @VICE, @DiscoverMag, @RoyalSocBio, @AtlasObscura, @Raconteur/@TheTimes, @SmithsonianMag

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Articles

Divers film astonishing footage of Galapagos sharks using manta rays in way never seen before

3 days ago | discoverwildlife.com | Richard Pallardy

Researchers working off of the Revillagigedo Archipelago south of the Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean have documented Galapagos sharks (Carcharhinus galapagensis) rubbing their bodies against oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) in order to remove external parasites. Sharks have been known to use surfaces to scrape off parasites and often make use of the 'cleaning services' of smaller fish that pick them off.
Cats may have been domesticated much later than we thought - with earlier felines being eaten or made into clothes

2 weeks ago | livescience.com | Richard Pallardy

The origins of domestic cats, and their travels with ancient humans, are as enigmatic as the animals themselves. But now, scientists have found new evidence supporting the idea that the unfathomable felines were likely first domesticated in ancient Egypt, where they were worshipped as part of a cult — or in another region of North Africa. Researchers already knew that modern-day lap cats (Felis catus) derived from African wildcats (Felis lybica).
Horizon3.ai Co-Founder Talks Transition From CTO to CEO

2 weeks ago | informationweek.com | Richard Pallardy

Snehal Antani has been tinkering with technology since childhood. His father, an electrical engineer, would give him broken devices and task him with fixing them. He moved into computer science as an undergraduate, eventually earning his master's degree. He then worked for IBM and eventually served as CIO for GE Capital and CTO for Splunk. In 2018, he joined Joint Special Operations Command, a division of the United States Special Operations Command, as CTO.
It sleeps while flying, cannibalises the young and forces other birds to vomit up their food – then eats its sloppy seconds | Discover Wildlife

2 weeks ago | discoverwildlife.com | Richard Pallardy

One might be forgiven for thinking that pterodactyls had been de-extincted upon first sighting the silhouette of a magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens). Boasting wingspans of over 2 metres, the species cuts an imposing figure as it cruises above the coastal regions of North and South America looking for prey.
DataBank CISO Looks at Tech Leadership in the C-Suite

1 month ago | informationweek.com | Richard Pallardy

Mark Houpt first discovered his technological talents while rewiring a computer lab in high school. He later entered the US Navy where he served as a cryptologist and then moved to the private sector, where he worked his way up from being a help desk tech to the C-suite. He now serves as CISO for DataBank. The company operates dozens of data centers nationwide. Here, he describes how he got into tech and offers his unique view of the current tech landscape in a conversation with InformationWeek.
Dinosaurs might still roam Earth if it weren't for the asteroid, study suggests

1 month ago | livescience.com | Richard Pallardy

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ago is likely based on faulty fossil data, according to a study that looked at nearly 18 million years of fossil evidence. Fossil discoveries have long indicated that dinosaurs were shrinking in numbers and diversity prior to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Dinosaurs weren't going extinct before the asteroid strike

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Richard Pallardy

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of dinosaurs — Edmontosaurus annectens (left), Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops prorsus — on a floodplain from the late Maastrichtian age about 66 million years ago. A recent study suggests that poor or unexposed fossil conditions explain the low number and diversity of dinosaur fossils from the ages before the extinction. .
Migraines: they are in your head

1 month ago | eurekanetwork.org | Richard Pallardy

Salvia BioElectronics, a Dutch medical device company, has designed an ultra-thin implant that promises relief to those suffering from chronic migraine and cluster headaches. The device is implanted just below the skin at the front and back of the head and uses mild electrical impulses to calm oversensitive nerves that trigger these debilitating conditions.
Knowledge Gaps Influence CEO IT Decisions

1 month ago | informationweek.com | Richard Pallardy

CEOs are increasingly honest about their IT knowledge deficiencies. Anyone who has worked in tech in the past several decades has a story or two about the imperious and dismissive attitude taken by the C-suite toward tech issues. It is a cost center, a gamble, an unworthy investment. There are plenty of CEOs and other executives who still refuse to engage with the tech side of the business. But they are now viewed as dinosaurs -- relics of an age where tech was a novelty.
Last seen in Brazil in 1905, this tiny insect just reappeared - in a dramatic way

1 month ago | discoverwildlife.com | Richard Pallardy

The Myrmecophilidae are a little-known family of crickets that make their living by stealing food from ants. The approximately 200 species of ant cricket are distributed worldwide but their habits are obscure because they lurk inside ant colonies, making them difficult to track and observe. In the March issue of the journal Zootaxa,Brazilian scientists report that they have rediscovered Myrmecophilus americanus following a 120-year absence from the entomological record in their country.