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If Kiss Started Today? 'We'd Be F—ed,' Says Paul Stanley
Kiss founder Paul Stanley, echoing his bandmate Gene Simmons' much-discussed "rock is dead" declaration, says the group wouldn't stand a chance if it tried to start its career today.
Kiss founder Paul Stanley, echoing his bandmate Gene Simmons' much-discussed "rock is dead" declaration, says the group wouldn't stand a chance if it tried to start its career today.
The Rolling Stones are ready to begin their delayed run of dates in Australia and New Zealand, but longtime sax player Bobby Keys won't be along for the ride.
Gene Simmons may think rock is dead, but his former touring mate Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue begs to differ.
The complete set of photos taken for the cover of the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album is headed for the auction block in November, where the signed and numbered set is expected to fetch up to $110,000.
It's not everyday a rock star keeps a 22-year-old promise to a fan, but that's exactly happened when Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder took a photo with fan Joe Wolfe.
The Foo Fighters started their week-long residency on 'Late Show With David Letterman' by paying tribute to Black Sabbath, but for their second night, they stayed much closer to home, teaming up with Heart for a rendition of the Seattle legends' 'Kick It Out.'
Leonard Delaney, original drummer for the early surf rock band the Tornadoes, has passed away at the age of 71 after an extended battle with Alzheimer's disease.
On Oct. 15, 1984, a tiny treasure trove of long-lost AC/DC rarities ttiled ''74 Jailbreak' arrived to help curb the seemingly insatiable consumer demand for the world's hottest hard-rock heroes.
While he steadfastly refused to go into detail about exactly what's gone wrong between himself and former bandmate David Crosby, Neil Young made it very clear that the relationship is indeed fractured during an interview with Howard Stern this morning.
Metallica fans have long wondered how differently the band might have proceeded if Dave Mustaine hadn't been fired in 1983.
Wow...there's a lot going on here, but it's all good.
Ozzy Osbourne will be saluted Nov. 9 in Glasgow with the MTV EMA Global Icon award.


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HRW: US Blocking UN Report on Congo Rebels
Report Said to Implicate Key US Ally Rwanda in Rebel Attacks
International watchdog Human Rights Watch says that the United Nations report on the rebels in eastern Congo has been delayed from release at the behest of the United States, with US officials seeking to keep it secret to avoid embarrassing Rwanda.
The report was said to have implicated the Rwanda government, a key US ally in the region, with backing the rebels and violating a UN ban on transferring weaponry to the rebels. Rwanda has denied the allegations.
Diplomats are denying the charge of "blocking" the report, saying that the US is only delaying its release but will eventually allow it to go public. The debate appears to center around the US and Rwanda attempting to have an annex detailing Rwanda's role removed, with officials apparently arguing that since the evidence implicating them was only discovered after the original report was written.
The Congolese ambassador to France has been pressing for the release of the report and the annex, saying that it is vital for the UN to complete its job and publish a factual report instead of burying the juicy details.
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"…the US is only delaying its release but will eventually allow it to go public." WTF! So Team USA has editorial control of every narrative that vomits out of the UN pie hole? And to think I was brain washed as a young man into thinking this nation had no control over it. Silly me.
The US covering, hiding, hindering, thwarting, meddling? Nooooo! Please say it ain't so.
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Treating cancer patients, not just the disease
When faced with a cancer diagnosis, patients and their loved ones take swift and aggressive action in mounting a counterattack against the disease.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will host its first Oklahoma Cancer Policy Forum dedicated to educating patients, providers and the public about palliative care in Oklahoma.
The forum will be from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at Stephenson Cancer Center, 800 NE 10th St., Oklahoma City. To register, visit acscan.org/okforum
The forum will address:
• What is palliative care and how does it work?
• Why is such care important to patients, providers and insurers?
• What policy changes would help expand the use and benefits of palliative care?
Guests will include leading palliative care researchers, oncologists, health professionals, citizen-volunteers and health care advocates.
This year in Oklahoma, an estimated 19,830 people will be diagnosed with cancer. These individuals often face a very uncertain and scary road ahead. Palliative care is gaining popularity quickly because its purpose is to improve the quality of life for people battling difficult diseases.
Oklahoma Palliative Care Resource Center featured in OU Medicine Magazine.
To view article online: Scroll to page 49 after clicking HERE
What is "palliative" care?
It is "HOPE". . .
The Institute of Medicine (1997) defined palliative care as care which ". . .seeks to prevent, relieve, reduce, or soothe the symptoms of disease or disorder without affecting a cure."
Palliative care is medical treatment that is directed to "care" for the physical, spiritual and psychological needs of patients and support for their caretakers.
Palliative care should be available to both adults and children early in the course of any medical treatment, and particularly in treatment of serious, chronic illness.
It should be provided alongside any medical treatment intended to "cure" illness and continued to provide quality of life "care" when there is no cure.
Palliative care is the response to a patient's and family's hope for effective pain management and emotional comfort from physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other health providers who never stop caring, who never give up on comfort, who always put the patient first. Palliative care is the "good news" in difficult times of serious, chronic illness.
Palliative care is not restricted to those who are dying. It is focused on the patient and caretakers to recognize the pain and anxiety which accompany serious, chronic, life-limiting illness. Palliative care should be available to both adults and children early in the course of any medical treatment.
to ". . . live while you're alive"
It Takes a Team: Communication Among Older Patients, Families and Health Care Providers . .video, Need to Know"Jane Carney
OUHSC Family Medicine Dog honored by American Medical Directors Association Foundation in the Caring Canine Calendar,
B.W. Winnicott, OU Physicians Family Medicine Center
Bow Wow Winnicott, named after British child psychoanalyst Donald Woods D.W. Winnicott, and known by children in foster care as "Winnie" is a soft-coated wheaten terrier. She assisted her owner, Annette Prince, in therapy with Native American children in foster care in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and also helped at inpatient psychiatric units for Childrens' and University Hospitals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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November 23 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzN2pgL0zeg "From naïve origins to the rise of cinematic realism: an account of graphical milestones in video games." A very nice 5 part series: Pixel Pioneers: A Brief History of Graphics, Part One Sprite Supreme: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Two Polygon Realm: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Three Voodoo Bloom: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Four Future Crisis: A Brief History of Graphics, Part Five
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November 19 2014
Birdly, a full immersion, full body, bird-flight simulator, including wind, sound, smell... https://vimeo.com/91069214 presented at SIGGRAPH'14, Conference for Computer Graphics and Interaction Techniques. Awesome! Would love to try that. What would you want to experience next? Slither like a snake? Swim like a dolphin? Dig like a mole? Have a look at more cutting and bleeding edge stuff on the SIGGRAPH'14 previews page.
Creative Code – Robert Hodgin at Eyeo Festival
November 7 2014
https://vimeo.com/103537259 Robert Hodgin talks about his beautiful real-time simulations of flocking behaviors. Fascinating in this talk is the way he presents his coding as a tool for exploring, phenomena, behaviors and experiences. (have a look at his previous talks at Eyeo, fascinating stuff)
The Grid | AI Websites That Design Themselves
November 1 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXA4-5x31V0 "This is not another do-it-yourself website builder. The Grid harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you. As your needs grow, it evolves with you, effortlessly adapting to your needs. Our algorithms expertly analyze your media and apply color palettes that keep your messaging consistent and unique. The Grid also detects color contrasts, automatically adjusting typographic color to maximize legibility. What's possible when an AI does all the hard work for you? You can get things done, even on the go. Drag-n-drop builders don't play nice with fingers on phones, but AI works perfectly, anywhere. Never again change your content to fit your template or the latest hot mobile device. The layout changes as you add content, and adapts to look great and work flawlessly no matter where your users find you. It's as easy as that. Actually, it's incredibly complicated, but The Grid figures it out so you don't have to. Join the evolution today at http://www.thegrid.io."
Moff – a wearable smart toy
November 1 2014
http://vimeo.com/87380174 Everything you do. Everything you hold. Change into toys. http://www.moff.mobi
3D Printer x Tattoo Machine
October 29 2014
Anyone wants a new tattoo? https://vimeo.com/102613692 Read more at dezeen: http://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/28/appropriate-audiences-tatoue-hacked-3d-printer-tattoo-machine/
Flesh Computer
October 26 2014
http://vimeo.com/108751357 Weird and strange, but still interesting. http://www.fleshcomputer.com
Beyond Projection Mapping
October 19 2014
https://vimeo.com/107162592 https://vimeo.com/105926747
How many years does it take to change a light bulb?
October 19 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVUTEVZCqsg A nice little video from Philips: "Our homes have changed radically over the past century". http://www.meethue.com
Behind the Mic: The Science of Talking with Computers
October 18 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxRAHVtafI Nice little video from Google on speech recognition and voice interaction with computing devices. "Language. Easy for humans to understand (most of the time), but not so easy for computers. This is a short film about speech recognition, language understanding, neural nets, and using our voices to communicate with the technology around us."
What is interaction design?
October 9 2014
or rather, What do interaction designers do? At the end of the Experience Prototyping course at UID, the students raised that question. It is a rather fundamental one, and impossible to answer in one single way and it will be different for anyone that considers themself to be working in this field. Very recently, one way of thinking about such questions was eloquently sketched by Joep Frens in his Nierenberg Lecture at the design department of Carnegy Melon University in Pitsburg on October 1st, 2014. https://vimeo.com/108268795 (Joep came to teach one week of Experience Prototyping at UID in 2011)
TEI'15 Student Design Challenge
October 7 2014
Important Dates October 22, 2014, 11:59 pm PST: Entry submission deadline November 22, 2014: Notification of Acceptance December 5, 2014, 11:59 pm PST: Student Design Challenge team commitment and registration The Challenge The Internet of Things is curiously lacking in knobs and switches. Instead, it's controlled by a collection of glass rectangles. Our hands do more than just touch and swipe, however. We have fingers that can feel, pinch, grip, turn, and point. They are attached to our arms, which act as levers to amplify the force we can exert with our hands. Our hands and arms are covered with nerve endings that give us intelligence about the world we live in that our eyes and ears can't fully deliver. History is littered with tools we've designed to take full advantage of our hands. Even into the early electronic era, we have designed wonderfully informative tangible tools. Great tangible controls are not just input devices. They act as physical indicators of the state of a system that we read through our hands. The click of a switch gives us haptic feedback that the device has heard our commands. The arrangement of a row of sliders reads like a graph to our fingers. Good tangible interfaces are also well-coupled with the things they control, providing an immediate feedback loop. The feedback from a steering mechanism makes your body a part of the vehicle's movement, encouraging you to rely on more than just your eyes and ears. Everyday appliances have grown some wonderful new features thanks to digital technologies. Home lighting is no longer just white light, nor need it be strictly turned on and off with a single switch. Lighting designers (and consumers) can now play with color, intensity, and time in their lamps. Yet tablet device interfaces lack the convenience and immediacy of the switch, particularly when you're fumbling in the dark. How can you deliver on the promise of these new features, yet retain the convenience and tangible intelligence of the switch? This year's design challenge is to imagine a digital present that takes full advantage of the capabilities of your hands and arms and delivers not only control, but also feedback about the system it controls. What the everyday tangible controls of our daily life for the 21st century. What's the best tangible light switch for the Philips Hue? What's the track selector on a Spotify jukebox? What controls give a media editor the ability to think through his work with his body, shifting pieces, clipping and extending with his hands and arms? Design so that your user can take full advantage of the capabilities of her hands, both operating and learning from touch, feel, and position. Use no sound, and no more than 64 pixels* in your final design. Imagine devices that that allow your user to keep her eyes and ears on the task, not on the controls. More info at http://www.tei-conf.org/15/student-design-competition
Hybrid Interactions with Phones on Computer Screens (MIT)
September 26 2014
Physical Charts
September 22 2014
The amazing folks at Microsoft Research Cambridge have come up with a few mechanical contraptions that elegantly represent data in the tangible and physical world. Here is the description of the project, from the web page: The physical charts are an attempt to make data and data visualisations legible to ordinary people in their daily lives. In response to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations and the seemingly unquestioning quest for novelty, the charts make playful use of long established and highly familiar representations like pie charts and bar graphs. Rather than estrange viewers, the objective is to enable them to, at a glance, engage with and comprehend data. The physical and dynamic qualities of the charts are intended to draw people in to viewing data, differentiating them from screen-based visualisations that are beginning to lose their salience in our information-rich environments. The beauty of the charts is in how simple they are to read and how the physical mechanics produce strikingly visual (and tactile) representations of data. Check the videos at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/physicalcharts The Physical Charts were designed and built by David Sweeney - with software development from Tim Regan and Alex Butler.


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Essex were the only county to bowl the 1948 Australians out, and what's more they did so in a day - but not before the tourists had amassed a world record score
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Early on the legendary Invincibles tour of 1948, Essex managed something few others teams achieved that summer - they bowled out the Australians, Don Bradman and all, and did so inside a day. The only problem was the tourists rattled up 721 before they were dismissed. It was - and remains - the most runs scored in a single day in first-class cricket, and the massive total included only nine extras and not one leg-bye.
In their opening five first-class matches the Australians had already shown what a formidable batting side they were and how quickly they could score. Four times they had racked up more than 350 runs in a day, and at The Oval less than a fortnight before they met Essex they scored 479 for 4 on the opening day against Surrey, going on to record their fourth win by an innings. The only slight hiccup had come in a low-scoring rain-affected game against Yorkshire, where they edged home by four wickets.
After thrashing the students at Cambridge, the Australians headed by coach to Southend to meet Essex and 24-year-old Trevor Bailey hitched a ride with them. Bailey had top-scored for the university and was already a regular in the Essex XI. After the first-day onslaught he wished he had stayed in Cambridge.
The Australians picked a strong side, their top four all in the Test team, and Bradman returned after missing the Cambridge game. He had only batted three times on tour - resting between innings victories - but had nevertheless scored 334 runs at 111.33. Bill Brown had a double-hundred at Fenners to his name, while Sid Barnes, his opener partner, came into the match on the back of 176 against Surrey.
Bradman won the toss and, to the appreciation of the 16,000 crammed inside the compact Southchurch Park on a sunny Saturday, decided to bat. The summer was all about the Australians and everyone wanted a chance to see Bradman in action on his farewell tour.
They only had to wait 95 minutes but in that time Brown and Barnes put on a breezy 145 runs for the first wicket, the only flutter coming when Brown's off stump was removed early on off a no-ball. Their otherwise untroubled progress ended when Barnes hit his wicket trying to cut offspinner Ray Smith. To loud applause Bradman strode to the middle. It was expected he would play out the remaining 25 minutes before lunch; instead he reached the break on 42, with his side on 202 for 1.
Legspinner Frank Vigar was given the last over of the morning. Bradman left the first ball and then cracked the next four to the midwicket boundary. Essex captain Tom Pearce kept reinforcing the leg side, Bradman kept threading the ball between the fielders. Before the final ball, wicketkeeper Frank Rist said to him: "Haven't you got any other shots?" "I'll show you those after lunch," Bradman replied, before threading the sixth ball to precisely the same place for his fifth consecutive boundary. Then he turned to Rist and said: "I did say after lunch."
By the time Bailey had Brown caught in the gully by Dick Horsfall, he and Bradman had added 219 in 90 minutes and the Australians were on 364 for 2. That brought Keith Miller, who headed the tourists' batting averages, to the middle. A flamboyant and aggressive batsman, his arrival was a daunting prospect; only, he was not remotely interested in what he saw as cheap runs. As Bailey bowled his first ball, Miller stood back with his bat raised and allowed the ball to hit the stumps.
What followed has never been agreed on. Some say Miller changed and went to the races, others than he resumed a poker game, others that he was proving a point to Bradman. What is beyond doubt is that he regarded the amassing of runs in such a way as wrong and wanted no part of it. "I got sick of the slaughter," he said, adding he thought Bradman was wrong in not allowing some of the younger players a chance against a side they knew beforehand to be weak.
"After hitting the stumps, I commented to Bradman, who was at the non-striker's end, that he had not appeared very interested," Bailey recalled. "Don replied: 'He'll learn.'"
After that briefest of lulls, the battering continued. Bradman, who brought up his hundred in 77 minutes, was eventually dismissed swinging across the line when he had scored 187 in 124 minutes. In all, he hit 32 fours and one five, and his scoring rate of 90 runs an hour was the fastest in his career. "[It] was all part of his deliberate, merciless, efficient plan, brilliant in its execution, to build up the biggest possible psychological advantage for the Australians over the English bowlers as a whole," was the verdict of the News Chronicle.
A second-string middle order might have been expected to provide some respite but Essex were punch drunk and their bowlers tired. Ron Hamence made 46 and then Sam Loxton and reserve wicketkeeper Ron Saggers put on 166 for the sixth wicket in 66 minutes. Saggers, celebrating his 31st birthday, brought up his maiden first-class hundred in 94 minutes, Loxton his in 76 minutes.
Writing for the AAP agency, former Australia spinner Arthur Mailey said the crowd started to leave an hour before the close as they were "so surfeited with the slaughter". The Guardian dryly noted "interest started veering to the microphone announcements of children searching for their aunts and wives wondering about their husbands". Mailey added Essex became so demoralised they dropped easy catches and bowlers barely bothered setting fields.
But Loxton's dismissal brought relief and Essex took the last four wickets for 57, the final one falling within ten minutes of the scheduled close and so sparing their shattered openers from having to face the Australian opening bowlers that evening.
At the fall of the final wicket the crowd swarmed onto the pitch and the handful of police on duty had to clear a way back to the pavilion for the players. Hundreds remained until the Australians left to board their coach, and when they left the sanctuary of the pavilion they were besieged by autograph hunters
It is claimed the Essex scorer completely lost track of what was happening, such was the rate of scoring, and the county's scorebook certainly contains a number of corrections. The scoreboard itself was left high and dry as the hundreds column only went up to six, and remained blank when the Australians passed 700.
Four of the Australians scored hundreds and four Essex bowlers brought up their own less welcome centuries. Bailey, who broke a finger on his left hand early in the day stopping a pull at short leg, took 2 for 128, including Miller's gift, while Peter Smith grabbed three late wickets to finish with 4 for 193. Essex managed to send down 129 overs in the day.
At least the Essex players had a rest day on the Sunday to recover, although it did them little good. Another full house packed the ground on the Monday - the Whitsun Bank Holiday - and watched the home side, minus the incapacitated Bailey, dismissed for 83 and 187 to give the Australians their fifth innings victory, with a day to spare.
The match, or more accurately the way the Australians approached it, set the tone for the summer. It was not about individual achievements so much as results. In his biography of Bradman, Charles Williams wrote: "They collectively announced their true intentions. Opponents were there to be defeated; and were, whenever possible, not just to be defeated but to be annihilated. The purpose was to establish a psychological ascendency over any and every opposition to carry through to the Test matches."
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If you like Pokémon, you know the insect connection.
Satoshi Tajiri of Japan, who developed Pokémon, collected insects in his childhood and initially toyed with the idea of becoming an entomologist.
He never forgot his love of insects and showcased them in Nintendo's Pokémon, now the world's second most successful video game-based media franchise, eclipsed only by Nintendo's Mario.
Enter three young entomologists at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis. What they did is amazing.
They published a humorous take on the evolutionary development and history of the 646 fictional species depicted in the Pokémon media over the last 16 years.
"We made a very real phylogeny of the very fake Pokémon creatures," commented lead author Matan Shelomi, the UC Davis entomology graduate student who conceived the idea.
The article, "A Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of the Pokémon," appeared in the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), a tongue-in-cheek journal meant "to make people laugh and then think," according to the editors. In keeping with the "laugh-and-then-think" concept, the journal also awards the infamous IG Nobel Prizes.
Shelomi, a graduate of Harvard where the IG Nobel Prizes are awarded, said he based his idea "in part on other AIR papers like the phylogeny of Chia Pets and the taxonomic description of Barney the Dinosaur."
Until now, however, no one has traced the evolutionary history of the 646 fictional species, let alone develop a 16-generation phylogenetic or evolutionary tree.
The Pokémon project is the work of Shelomi; Andrew Richards, a junior specialist at the Bohart Museum; and Ivana Li, an entomology student/artist who works part-time at the Bohart.
Oh, wait! There's a fourth author, too--Yukinari Okido, whom Pokémon fans may recognize as the Japanese name of one of the fictional Pokémon professors from the game/TV show, Professor Oak.
How did it all come about? "I had a lull in my dissertation research and decided to spend the weekends and downtime making this phylogeny," said Shelomi, who is studying for his doctorate in entomology with Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and professor of entomology at UC Davis. "It took at least a month to actually collect all the data, which I did manually by scrolling through Pokémon websites."
What about reader reaction? "The paper is slowly making the rounds," Shelomi said. "We've had quite a few people disagree with the tree, as some of the conclusions violate Pokémon canon, and we do have the usual phylogenetic problems of long-branch attraction, etc. The disconnect between the tree and Pokémon mating groups is a problem, but I argue that the Biological Species Concept should not be assumed for Pokémon and I stand by my tree."
"So far, one scientist--a linguist in Japan--has asked for a copy of the dataset to use in a class on phylogram building," Shelomi said, "and he apparently came up with a different tree."
"It would be nice to see a wide set of articles responding to this one," Shelomi said. "I think it would be quite easy to fill a journal of Pokémon science, although much harder to justify creating one."
Want to see the phylogeny? Click on the link or see it at the Bohart Museum, 1124 Academic Surge, Crocker Lane, UC Davis.
Insects and Halloween just seem to go together.
What would Halloween be like without costumes depicting honey bees, ladybugs, butterflies, bumble bees, and just plain bugs?
And maybe a few termites, roaches, bed bugs and stink bugs tossed in for good measure?
The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, annually hosts two pre-Halloween open houses. One, sponsored by the Bohart Museum Society, is for donors, Entomology Department affiliates, and other invited guests. The other, hosted by the museum itself, is open to all as part of its education, teaching and public service mission.
Spiders--although not insects--are wildly popular at these functions. Spider decorations dangle from the ceiling and painted images adorn faces.
Among the most interesting "bug" costumes showing up at the Bohart last week: a monarch butterfly outfit donned by Maia Lundy of Davis Senior High School, an intern at the Bohart; and a black widow spider costume worn by Tabatha Yang, the museum's outreach and education coordinator. Tabatha and her husband, Louie Yang, assistant professor of entomology at UC Davis, are expecting their first child.
Kara Handy of Davis dressed as a witch, and a beautiful witch at that, with a stunning spider web accenting one eye.
Another guest, carrying an insect net, creatively presented herself as a pinned specimen. (Back in 2010, graduate student Matan Shelomi dressed as Billy the Exterminator.)
The Bohart Museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Lane (formerly California Drive) will be open for more weekend open houses during the 2012-2013 academic year. These open houses are free and open to the public.
The schedule includes:
Sunday, Nov. 18, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "Insect Societies"
Saturday, Dec. 15, 1 to p.m. Theme: "Insects in Art"
Sunday, Jan. 13, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "Extreme Insects"
Saturday, Feb. 2, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "Biodiversity Museum Day"
Sunday, March 24, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "Aquatic Insects"
Saturday, April 20 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m., UC Davis Picnic Day)
Saturday, May 11, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "Moth-er's Day"
Sunday, June 9, 1 to 4 p.m. Theme: "How to Find Insects"
The Bohart Museum, directed by Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis, houses a global collection of nearly eight million insect specimens and is the seventh largest insect collection in North America. It is also the home of the California Insect Survey, a storehouse of the insect biodiversity. Noted entomologist Richard M. Bohart (1913-2007) founded the museum in 1946.
The insect museum includes a gift shop and a live "petting zoo," complete with Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and a rose-haired tarantula that you can hold and photograph.
The Bohart's regular hours are from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. It is closed to the public on Fridays and on major holidays. Admission is free.
Quick, what's the state insect of South Dakota?
If you answered "the European honey bee," you're right. The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is also the state insect of 16 other states: Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
We call "our" honey bee the European or western honey bee because it's non-native. European colonists brought it to this country in 1622 to what is now Jameston, Va. Surprisingly, however, Virginia's state insect is not the honey bee, but the tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus).
California, too, has a non-bee state insect, even though this little agricultural worker arrived here in 1853. The Golden State's choice? The beautiful California dogface butterfly (Zerene Eurydice), a native. California is one of 27 states heralding the butterfly as its state insect. (Not all states have state insects, and some states have more than one. See Wikipedia.)
If you visit the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis campus, at its pre-Halloween open house from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, you'll see a wall map of the United States with a colorful image of each state insect.
The museum, home of more than seven million insect specimens, is located in 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Lane (formerly California Drive).
Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and professor of entomology at UC Davis, encourages all to wear Halloween costumes. Last year many wore bee and ladybug costumes. Some painted their faces with a butterfly motif.
There will be plenty to see and do. There's even a live "petting zoo" (think Madagascar hissing cockroaches, walking sticks and a rose-haired tarantula).
If you're unable to attend the open house Saturday, be aware that you can visit the Bohart Museum from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday. It's closed to the public on Fridays and on major holidays. Admission? Free.
The gift shop holds assorted treasures, including t-shirts, jewelry, insect-themed candy, and posters of the California dogface butterfly and dragonflies.
The "boo"--in the way of costumes and decorations--is traditional. The hiss? That's the sound emanating from the Madagascar hissing cockroaches, aka "hissers."
This all will happen from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27 at the Bohart Museum on the UC Davis campus. The museum is located in Room 1124 of Academic Surge, Crocker Lane (formerly California Drive).
The event is free and open to the public. Wear a Halloween costume! Ghouls just love to have fun---but so do ghosts and goblins.
The theme, "Insects and Death," focuses on forensic entomology. UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey of the Department of Entomology will be on hand to answer questions about insects as decomposers, and why they're important.
Bohart Museum officials also will correct myths about "deadly" insects and "creepy crawlers."
"House flies and mosquitoes cause more human deaths than all other insects combined," said Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum and professor of entomology at the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
In addition to the hissers, other live attractions at the open house will be walking sticks and a rose-haired tarantula.
Carved pumpkins, with an insect motif, will decorate the museum.
Over at the gift shop, you can purchase jewelry, T-shirts, sweatshirts, posters, and "entomological" candy. Especially popular around Halloween are scorpion-themed lollipops, chocolate-covered insects and flavored mealworms.
The Bohart Museum, founded in 1946 by noted entomologist Richard M. Bohart (1913-2007), is the home of more than seven million insect specimens. More information is available on the Bohart website at or by contacting Tabatha Yang at firstname.lastname@example.com or (530) 752-0493.
It's almost time for Halloween, when all self-respecting little ghosts, goblins and ghouls take a special interest in spiders.
We saw this little jumping spider (below) on a pink rose. It doesn't look like it could scare anything--except for maybe a sweat bee or hover fly.
This year the Explorit Science Center of Davis, a hands-on science museum located at 3141 5th St., is taking a special interest in spiders.
The center is sponsoring a number of programs on these critters and posted "Facts About Spiders" on its website.
For one thing, many people think spiders are insects. They're not.
Both spiders and insects are invertebrates, but spiders are not insects.
Insects have a head, thorax and abdomen, and the thorax has three pairs of legs. They also eyes, antennae and mouthparts, the Explorit Science Center website points out. "The entire body is protected by a tough outer covering called an exoskeleton. Animals that share these characteristics are called insects. The group to which they belong is called the Insecta."
Spiders, as the Explorit Science Center explains, have two main body parts. "The body consists of a combined head and thorax called the cephalothorax, and the abdomen. The cephalothorax has the eyes, mouthparts (no antennae) and four pairs of legs. Animals that share these characteristics include ticks, mites, scorpions and spiders. The group is called the Arachnida."
And speaking of spiders, schooolchildren visiting the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus occasionally ask to "see the spiders." The Bohart is an insect museum (although the officials have been known to showcase a few spiders, too.)
Mark your calendar for Saturday, Oct. 27 for the Bohart's public open house from 1 to 4 p.m. in 1124 Academic Surge on Crocker Drive (nearest intersection is LaRue Road.) This is a pre-Halloween open house and there definitely will be assorted spiders at the insect museum!


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