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 Folks, I was not prepared for how green it is! Our first stop was Eagle River. There will be so much more throughout the week!

  I'll be back to work on the 31st! As usual, I'll probably be busy catching up at first but you know I'll have pictures!! So stick around and have fun!! I'll pop in when I can! ^_^  

  These Tiny Desk sessions are a great way to get an introduction to a band, and it's usually a fun presentation of the music.  Such as this one I recently watched: And this has got to be a hoot. I know our friend Gena will be excited about this new drop! Mac Miller was listed a few times as one of the best performances, so here we go.

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 In honor of its first year in space, James Webb has given us a glorious glimpse of the closest star-forming region to Earth, the Rho Ophiuchi. "In just one year, the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed humanity's view of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds and seeing light from faraway corners of the universe for the very first time," says NASA Admin Bill Nelson. In the Rho region, there are about 50 young stars all with a mass similar to or smaller than our Sun.  We see huge jets of molecular hydrogen (red) which occur when a star bursts through its natal envelope of dust, stretching itself into being. Some stars show the shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems. More Images

  A yummy festival at Idlewild Park.  I had a lavender wit beer, tried some honeycomb from Mason Valley Beekeepers, and bought a lavender vanilla tea which I'm enjoying this morning. Then we needed to cool off, and Pyramid sounded just right. Oh, and here's a shot from the 4th, Reno/Sparks before the fireworks.

  On this day in 1933, architect/engineer Buckminster Fuller, unveiled his Dymaxion Car #1. A made-up word combining dynamic, maximum and ion, it was the first three-wheeled, multi-directional vehicle.  Fuller lived his life with the intent of experimenting and contributing to "changing the world and benefiting all humanity." The sketches began in 1927 and included wings that could inflate.  Production began in early 1933, using a steel chassis and a body made of ash wood, covered with an aluminum skin and topped with a painted canvas roof.  It was designed to reach a speed of 120mph and average 28 miles per gallon. Fuller sold the car to Gulf Oil, and it was put on display at the Century of Progress expo in Chicago. However, in October professional driver Francis Turner was killed when the Dymaxion turned over during a demonstration.  The vehicle was cleared, but investors were concerned. Fuller also created a Dymaxion house, which used tension suspension from ...

 It's that time of year again for the salmon and thus the bears. I'm also getting antsy about our trip, so to Alaska we go! Not that we'll be traveling this far south. We're flying into Anchorage and spending some time in Soldotna. Hubby wants to fish, of course, but we won't be fighting any bears over it.  :-P

  Last week we saw Margot Robbie channeling Barbie's iconic swimsuit for the Sydney premiere, but she's been nailing other references as well. Sparkling Pink Barbie Day to Night Barbie Pink and Fabulous Barbie Earring Magic Barbie Totally Hair Barbie World Premiere in Los Angeles: Solo in the Spotlight Barbie Ryan Gosling, aka Ken, did pretty well too. Issa Rae Hari Nef Alexandra Shipp

  A young undergrad at UNR has been selected to receive a fellowship through NIH called the MARC - Maximizing Access to Research Careers.  This provides partial or full tuition, a $15K stipend per year, and complete coverage of travel and research expenses.  In exchange, students commit to earning a biomedical degree. Riley Gillis will be obtaining an MD-PhD, and at 19 he's already been published.  Shortly after graduating high school last year, his paper studying trends of obesity comorbidities was included in the Nevada State Undergraduate Research Journal. His second manuscript provides recommendations for prevention of Ebola in sub-Saharan Africa and will be released later this month through Columbia University. A pretty big deal when you consider most scientists aren't able to publish as a first author until at least their final year of graduate school. Gillis is currently a researcher at the Center for Molecular Medicine, working to develop and purify monoclona...