I had to smile at this:
This car is the NmG (stands for “No More Gas” ). You can read about it here. It’s not a hybrid; it’s pure electric. Goes about 30 miles on a charge, so is mainly suited for buzzing around town. Seats one, so you’ll have to get a separate NmG for each passenger. Fortunately you can park four of them in a standard parking space.
Loma Linda gets a passing (1 second or so) appearance in a CNN video about coyotes attacking small children.
If you can find a copy of the March 2008 National Geographic magazine, check out the headline story, “Inside Animal Minds.” (You can also read it online, but I think the printed version has more photos.)
Although the story is unsurprisingly laced with evolutionary theory, it has some really intriguing case studies of various animal species, revealing aspects of intelligence sometimes where we might least expect to find it. You can meet Uek, a crow; Shanthi, an elephant; Alex, the African gray parrot; Edward, the sheep; Aristides, the lemur; Betsy, the (very lovable looking) border collie; JB, the octopus; Maya, the dolphin; and many more.
Check out this cool map that replaces the names of states in the USA with the names of other countries that have the same Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the respective state. (You may want to copy the main map onto your desktop, and view it from there. It’s big.)
My own state, Illinois, apparently has a GDP comparable to Mexico.
I don’t have any children to try it on, but I thought this was really amazing. In the video, a 13-month-old girl “reads” cards her daddy shows her. (It appears she doesn’t exactly “read” them, in the phonetic sense, but she does recognize the meaning of the words.) In the commentary, a related technique of teaching infants sign language for important words is also mentioned in passing. Parents and soon-to-be parents might like to check this out.