Blog archive
June 2023
Bridget Brewster Discovers Village Benefits
06/04/2023
Rumor of Humor #16
06/04/2023
Communications Project with Cal State LA
06/02/2023
Creative Aging
06/01/2023
May 2023
One Villager's Story
05/31/2023
Pasadena Area Liberal Arts Center
05/31/2023
Pasadena Village Responds to Rainbow Flag Burning at Pasadena Buddhist Temple
05/31/2023
Plan Ahead - And Be Prepared
05/31/2023
Tuesday, May 23 Pasadena Celebrated Older Americans
05/31/2023
Reparations, Social Justice Activity
05/24/2023
Rumor of Humor #14
05/19/2023
Rumor of Humor #13
05/12/2023
Issue #12
05/09/2023
Science Monday - Review of Meeting on April 10, 2023
05/09/2023
Conversations Re African American Artists Before 1920
05/08/2023
Beyond the Village – Suzi and Phil Hoge
05/01/2023
Congratulations Wayne April! Honored at UNH
05/01/2023
Table Topics
05/01/2023
Volunteer Appreciation at the Village
05/01/2023
“ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease”
05/01/2023
April 2023
Jumbo Joy
04/24/2023
Pasadenans Recent Experience With Racism
04/23/2023
Recent Events Reflecting Racism
04/23/2023
Fig and Goat Cheese Bruschetta
04/18/2023
Photography for Social Justice
04/11/2023
Issue #8
04/07/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Catherine Deely
04/06/2023
Creative Writing in Older Adults
04/06/2023
Gifts of Love
04/06/2023
March 2023
Issue #7
03/31/2023
Issue #6
03/26/2023
Great Decisions update
03/14/2023
Dominion Lawsuit, South Africa and 710 Stub
03/08/2023
February 2023
2023 DEI Progress
02/27/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Doug Colliflower
02/26/2023
CONVERSATIONS WITH ART
02/26/2023
GREAT DECISIONS
02/26/2023
OLDER ADULTS RESOURCE FAIR
02/26/2023
The Important, Influential Books in our Lives - Revisited
02/26/2023
History, Resolution of the 710 Freeway
02/19/2023
Eminent Domain, 710 Highway
02/13/2023
Bernard Garrett, 710 Freeway
02/06/2023
Men's Times Gatherings
02/03/2023
January 2023
Pasadena's Senior Commission
01/30/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - JIM HENDRICK
01/27/2023
GRATITUDE - IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!
01/27/2023
JEFF GUTSTADT - FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST
01/27/2023
Bernard Garrett, Incredible Black Entrepreneur
01/17/2023
What is the "Spirit Talk" Group About?
01/16/2023
Same Ol’ New Year, Brand New Me
01/12/2023
Review of 2022, Consideration of 2023
01/06/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - PATTI LA MARR
01/03/2023
FROM THE CHAIR
01/03/2023
WALK WITH EASE
01/03/2023
Science Monday - Review of Meeting on April 10, 2023
By Bob SnodgrassPosted: 05/09/2023
Hello Friends,
Hoping that you are well, we’ll briefly review the April 10th meeting. Attending were Sharon, Barbara. Dick, Karen and Bob. We had presentations on two areas: Barbara gave us two somewhat related areas to consider-a. how climate has shaped migration of plants, animals and humans over the eons and how the brain has a low power mode if nutritionally or otherwise depleted, in which some details of perception are lost.
First of all, I hope that you are used to hearing is influenced by genes but not by genes alone. For example, the massive asteroid that smashed into the earth about 66 million years ago. It was tens of miles wide and started fires all over the planet, An asteroid, perhaps knocked off course by Jupiter, came very near to the sun and broke into fragments- it struck the earth near Yucatan and left the huge undersea crater, Chicxulub. Genetics as we understand it was not a cause of this impact which killed off about 70% of all life. But genetic endowment was important in determining which species survived. In the same fashion, temperature and atmospheric conditions influence life, evolution and the distribution of life but weren’t the only factors.
I will focus on the upcoming meeting today at 4 PM, which I will attend. As always the world is full of science news, some genuine, some confusing or hard to interpret, and some false. Our meeting can be helpful if you learn of doubts about an item of Science news or we learn that it is much more complex than discussed in the media. I will present some material on comb jellies and hypothetical trees of life, but the bulk f the meeting is for you, not me.
This afternoon, our meeting is at 4 PM. I hope that many of you can come and bring items for discussion. The Zoom code for our meeting is listed below, sent from Hannah Rough-Shock. We welcome newcomers who want to see how our meetings work out.
consciously named his tree after the biblical Tree of Life, as described in Genesis, thus relating his theory to the religious tradition.[8]
Page from Darwin's notebooks (c. July 1837) with his first sketch of an evolutionary tree, and the words "I think" at the top
Diagram in Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859.
It was the book's only illustration. Birds
· Mammals
· Reptiles
· Insects
Table of Contents
· Diet
· Behavior
· Sources
By
Updated on October 15, 2019
The comb jelly is a marine invertebrate that swims by beating rows of cilia that resemble combs. Some species have rounded bodies and tentacles like jellyfish, but comb jellies and jellyfish belong to two separate phyla. Jellyfish are cnidarians, while comb jellies belong to the phylum ctenophora. The name ctenophora comes from Greek words that mean "comb carrying." Approximately 150 comb jelly species have been named and described to date.
consciously named his tree after the biblical Tree of Life, as described in Genesis, thus relating his theory to the religious tradition.[8]
Page from Darwin's notebooks (c. July 1837) with his first sketch of an evolutionary tree, and the words "I think" at the top
Diagram in Darwin's On the Origin of Species, 1859.
It was the book's only illustration. Birds
· Mammals
· Reptiles
· Insects
Table of Contents
· Diet
· Behavior
· Sources
By
Updated on October 15, 2019
The comb jelly is a marine invertebrate that swims by beating rows of cilia that resemble combs. Some species have rounded bodies and tentacles like jellyfish, but comb jellies and jellyfish belong to two separate phyla. Jellyfish are cnidarians, while comb jellies belong to the phylum ctenophora. The name ctenophora comes from Greek words that mean "comb carrying." Approximately 150 comb jelly species have been named and described to date.