I've been really down this week, biting my nails about finals and my academic future (or potential premature end of it). Walking on my way to give a presentation about Sterkfontein & Swartkrans caves ("killer man-apes," leopards, SK 53 and all that), I heard this Ben Folds song on my iShuffle and thought it most appropriate;
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presentation sounds interesting - one of my favourite paleonathropological whodunnit type pieces of deduction that.
Would you consider letting us see your Sterkfontein presentation, either directly linking to the file or as a post?
I grew up in S.A. and went on the guided tours through Sterkfontein Caves several times a child, and enjoyed the experience immensely, so learning more about them would be cool.
tai & Dave; I am definitely planning on putting up something about it. Right now it's in ppt format and a lot of what I talked about isn't represented in the slides, so I'll work on turning it into a post. As you can see from the post, though, I'm in the middle of final exams so passing my tests has to come first, but I'll definitely try to get something up on Sterkfontein & Swartkrans soon.