Our California Academy of Sciences Goes Double Platinum – Largest Such...
TweetThe California Academy of Sciences just got another award – deets below. Per Dr. Gregory Farrington, Executive Director of the Academy: “Our LEED Platinum building is a marvelous example of...
View Article“Tis the Season for Science” at Our California Academy of Sciences – Snow!...
Tweet‘Tis the Season for Science at the California Academy of Sciences. Check it: “From November 23, 2011 – January 16, 2012 the Academy will offer a suite of wintry festivities and family fun that...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Mission to Mars Will be a Lot Bigger Than NASA’s Previous Efforts...
TweetWhen you’re on a mission to M/A/R/R/S, you gots to pump up the volume, like how NASA is doing with tomorrow’s launch of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Check out this shot showing the size of...
View ArticleMISSING: Steven Harris – Last Seen at the California Academy of Sciences Jan...
Tweet[UPDATE: “STEVEN HAS BEEN FOUND. He is currently with family.] OK, here’s the report as far as I know: Steven Harris, went missing around 11:00 AM on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015, last seen leaving...
View ArticleForget About That Blue and Gold Dress: Do You See Two Cats or a Cat and a Pig?
TweetThe one on the left is definitely ID’ed as a cat, but I’m seeing a lot of bear or pig or bear-pig in the unlabeled and supposed “cat” on the right: Bears have muzzles and piggies have muzzles, but...
View ArticleOnly In Frisco: “TO KEEP OUR FINCHES HAPPY, THESE DOORS ARE LOCKED”–...
TweetOur California Academy of Sciences must have the happiest songbirds in the World:
View ArticleSomething Dino This Way Comes, to Your California Academy of Sciences: DINO...
Here’s your sneak peak: And here’s the whole magillah, which looks pretty good…
View ArticleShut Down JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park Now Officially Bifurcated to Allow...
Not sure how sincere the “temporary” “emergency” shutdown of JFK Drive to People With Cars was, but it seems to be getting less temporary, thusly: So that’s Music Concourse Drive off to the left and...
View ArticleJust a Few of the Headaches Rec and Park has at the Northern End of the Music...
Like some statues in Golden Gate Park have come down, abruptly, and more on their way down in the coming months and years. RPD knows that unpopular things, like the big, semi-permanent diesel generator...
View ArticleA Half-Decade of BRRRRRR…: The Operators of the Golden Gate Park Music...
See, it’s “hidden” behind fencing – that was part of the deal: Here’s the original, slightly larger generator: Don’t even suggest powering the wheel with ‘lectricity, from, IDK, a hydro-electric dam –...
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