https://signalthroughstatic.cc/casefiles/politics/Recent content in Politics on Signal Through StaticHugoen© 2026 S. Caronia / J. Miller · <a href="https://github.com/josephusm/blog/blob/main/LICENSE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a> · <a href="https://github.com/josephusm/blog/blob/main/COPYRIGHT" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Copyright</a>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://signalthroughstatic.cc/signals/after-the-asteroid/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://signalthroughstatic.cc/signals/after-the-asteroid/<p>This is not a second review of Steve Brusatte&rsquo;s <em>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</em>. It is a follow-up essay that grew out of my earlier review: <a href="https://signalthroughstatic.cc/signals/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs/">The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte</a> .</p> <p>Steve Brusatte&rsquo;s <em>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</em> leaves behind a useful inversion. Dinosaurs did not rule because they were superior. They colonized a void. The Permian-Triassic extinction wiped out the incumbents. They walked into empty rooms.</p>