The Huntington museum and Gardens
Los Angeles
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Photo of the Day
The last two of the bridge at the Japanese gardens in the Huntington Botanical Gardens
Los Angeles
Now on to the rest of the Japanese Gardens, then the rest of the place (it is worth a visit).
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Curly Howard (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952)
Curly Howard's grave
Home of Peace Cemetery
Los Angeles
Monday, October 21, 2019
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Saturday, October 19, 2019
I do not get scared in Halloween. This one does scare me. Yikes!
If you’re not familiar with SIM swap fraud, prepare to be terrified.
This scam, also known as port-out or SIM splitting fraud, allows criminals to hijack your cell phone number. Once they have your number, the bad guys can clean out your financial accounts, confiscate your email, delete your data and take over your social media profiles.
In ‘SIM Swap,’ Criminals Really Have Your Number
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/sim-swap-criminals-really-number
Friday, October 18, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Monday, October 14, 2019
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Photo of the Day
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Temple)
Photography is not allowed inside the Temple we saw the last few days. Instead, they have a separate structure with a store and classrooms for learning which you can see here.
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Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
Monday, October 07, 2019
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Friday, October 04, 2019
Thursday, October 03, 2019
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
Tuesday, October 01, 2019
Pterosaurs Were Monsters of the Mesozoic Skies
A fascinating look at Pterosaurs. Hard to imagine the strange anatomy of these reptiles (note: they are not dinosaurs) or the fact that they really could fly.
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrate creatures to evolve powered flight and conquer the air—long before birds took wing. They prevailed for more than 160 million years before vanishing along with the nonbird dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago. In that time, they evolved some of the most extreme anatomical adaptations of any animal, living or extinct. The smallest of these aerial predators was the size of a sparrow. The largest had a wingspan that rivaled that of an F-16 fighter jet. Many possessed heads larger than their bodies, making them, in essence, flying jaws of death. Pterosaurs patrolled every ocean and continent on Earth. No animal in the Mesozoic would have been safe from their gaze.
Unlike dinosaurs, which are survived today by birds, pterosaurs left behind no living descendants. As a result, all that paleontologists know about pterosaurs comes from the fossil record. And that record has been frustratingly fragmentary, leaving us with just a glimmer of their former glory and a host of questions about their bizarre anatomy and ill fate. Paleontologists have scratched their heads over these mysteries for decades. Now new fossil discoveries, combined with mathematical modeling methods in which anatomical structures are simplified just enough that equations of physical properties can be applied to get best estimates of strength, weight, speed, and so forth, are finally generating insights. And what scientists are finding is that pterosaurs were even more extraordinary than we ever imagined
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