I saw this sign at Cal Academy last month. It completely blows my mind!
Nancy Levine Aquatic Biologist
Sharks are fascinating creatures! Some give live birth, while others lay eggs. The egg cases shown here come from the Academy’s sharks. There is evidence of a different bamboo shark species successfully switching between sexual and asexual reproduction. I am studying whether our species has the same ability.
Just to be clear, she is talking about the possibility of human asexual reproduction!
If you agree with this note, I encourage you to send BART a message. Contact them.
Dear BART,
Could you please make some way for train riders to better identify the difference between 16th Street Mission Station and 24th Street Mission Station.
Most especially, the signage at these stations cannot be seen from inside the train. This could easily and relatively inexpensively be fixed if you moved the signs so that they are under the lights instead of in the dark where they are now.
The conductors usually announce the names of the stations but a sign is a much more reliable and less stressful way to know where I am.
A friend asked the Lazyweb for help with Samsung Galaxy phone vs iPhone. Here’s my response:
I’m very happy with my Android Samsung Galaxy S. I’ve had it for almost a year now. My last phone was an iPhone 3G. My Samsung had a short battery life so I got a backpack battery for it; it’s a bit large but now no battery problems.
It took a while to get used to the Android. Some of the apps it came with aren’t as good as the stock iPhone apps. IE the calculator app. But there are free and cheap calculator apps that kick the iphone’s calculating ass.
More deets: http://lee.org/blog/?s=android
My vmail and email now belong to the Google, and I like it better than Steve owning them.
Android runs Flash in the browser. And it works great. That says just as many bad things about Apple as good things about Android.
I didn’t root my phone and I don’t feel I need to. There is just 1 tiny thing I would change if I were to go to the trouble of rooting the phone.
Your next phone should be an Android.
PS.
Oh but I have to say, the iphone 4’s High Dynamic Range camera takes pretty effing awesome pictures.
It’s almost time for the 12 days of Christmath. Here’s a warmup. If you get this joke, you’ll love this video
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An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint…
“I understand”, says the bartender – and pours two pints.
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Over the summer I went to a sourdough bread workshop at 18 ReasonsJosey Baker. I love to eat sourdough more than I like to make it. He put on a good workshop and I picked up a thing or two.
I’m teaching “BeetleBots Zooming Everywhere!” at Workshop Weekend, Dec. 10-11 in Oakland! Come learn, make, or build something new. Use my coupon code BEETLEBOT2011 to get 10% off tuition. Register online at http://whatwillyoulearn.com/catalog
There’s a lot more classes running at the event, check it out.
I hope to see you there!
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Here’s the full class description of my class
BeetleBots Zooming Everywhere!
This workshop is best for 9-15 year olds.
In just two hours we’ll take some motors and switches and turn them into living, scampering, skittering BeetleBots! It’s a robot that zooms around your kitchen floor in the cutest/creepiest(?) way you’ve ever seen!
When you’re done, you’ll know how to build more of these little guys (did I just say Holiday Project with family?)
This relatively easy robot project gives great food for thought on the nature of artificial intelligence, robotic mobility and… nah, they’re just awesome to play with!
If you don’t have these skills already, you’ll learn how to use a soldering iron and hot glue gun. But the magic isn’t in the legerdemain, it’s in how we put these little guys together and make them go!
