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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 processes around [...]

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.

But while [...]

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 by optibike; it’s [...]