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Turning The Tide Conference

Turning The Tide

I can’t believe it’s been a whole month since the Turning The Tide Conference.  This was truly a phenomenal event.  The background is that the National Park Service in conjunction with the Golden Gate National Park Conservancy decided to create a platform to make more of a difference in the intellectual [...]

Pickens Plan

Yesterday I listened to T. Boone Pickens expound on his energy plan for America at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco at a meeting of the CommonWealth club.  He’s a great speaker and very funny. His delivery somewhat reminds of my professor, Dr. Suppes at Stanford, another distinguished Oklahoman.

An expensive bike

Optibike Electric Bike

We went to the new California Academy of Sciences today, and it’s really beautiful.  We really enjoyed all the new exhibits. We did miss a few old ones, like most of the fossils are gone (hmmph, I’m a frustrated paleontologist.).

I did see this amazing thing. It’s a hitech electric bike [...]