Entries from SFist tagged with 'alberteinstein'
March 14, 2006
What are you doing today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m.? Celebrating irrational numbers, we hope -- that's when the Exploratorium, San Francisco's science museum, will be kicking off their 18th Annual Pi Day party. Because pi is all about circles, participants will learn how to make pizzas -- and because scientists love bad puns, a certain type of round baked good with a crusty top will also be served (donated by Bakers Square.) At 1......
Continue Reading "3.14159 Day"February 4, 2005
As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent in keeping track of donated cadavers. That's right - your dear Aunt Millie, who thought she was donating her body to science, may well have ended up on the black market in Nevada. In 1999, the director of UC Irvine's body......
Continue Reading "Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland"October 27, 2004
Previously on Proposition It, we learned how Proposition 65 begat Proposition 1A, how Prop 60 begat Prop 60A and Prop. 62. We also learned that there’s a really cranky lawyer in Mountain View. In today’s installment, we take on frivolous lawsuits, unique tax schemes, and hi-tech gadgetry. Not to mention those crazy Indian Gambling bills. As Lionel Richie would say “Karamu, fiesta, forever/Come on and sing along." Proposition 63- Mental Health Services Expansion, Funding. Tax......
Continue Reading "Proposition It II - Election Boogaloo"