Bat For Lashes!!!!

Ochibo went to a Bat for Lashes show last weekend at the Great American Music Hall in S.F. We must report that Natasha's voice is amazing and crisp and beautiful not just in the studio, but live as well! :D IF you get the chance, she comes highly recommended!

Ochibos at the Meteor Crater!

About 50,000 years ago, mammoths and (my favorite) giant ground sloths were wondering around peacefully through the woodlands in the middle of what is now known as Arizona when, from the very sky itself came a nickel-iron asteroid, 50 meters (162 feet) around came crashing through the trees and blew a 4,000 ft diameter hole in the ground. Poor sloths, I imagine they never even knew they were hit.
Oddly enough, the crater is privately owned and not even named a national monument.
PS. Nasa has a great site called "Astronomy Picture of the Day" that has amazing photos. Even one of the http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap971117.html!

Moss!

How freaking cool is the field of genetics? Some scientists in Zurich have figured out how to insert mammalian genes in… moss. Really, moss! What does this mean for us? Well, now we can get the moss to grow our mammalian proteins for us. Therapeutic proteins (such as insulin) that until now have been very expensive to culture due to the fact that they could only previously be made mostly by mammalian cells.