Archive for January, 2008

4.9 feet in diameter - held equipment and 2 dudes.

We saw this after leaving the conservation hall and once we came back outside from the touch pool it was all of a sudden "Anna's Birthday."

The walrus tank was sort of admittedly the only part of the aquarium that was awesome, though probably that had something to do with the fact that it was freezing out. And the aquarium is mostly outside.

Apparently, its the middle of the walrus mating season. This walrus was being territorial and confrontational by being uncntrollably cute.

Other side was still intact. His name is George. If you see him, please contact Svetlana.

I can't even begin to imagine why.

"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not. "

A not particularly carefully OCR'd pdf of Clynes' and Kline's groundbreaking article on the plausibility of modifying the human body to adapt to extended periods of spaceflight. Might be worth considering in the face of the doping scandal, might not.

How come none of these appear in Tufte's books?

Not that morbid, actually. Very anatomical though.

Theoretician of the synapse, and incredible medical illustrator.