Yay! The manuscript I submitted got accepted for publication!
Not sure when it will appear yet. It’s a quarterly publication so it could be a few months before I see it in print.
A fine example of geek hackery
What do you do when you don’t have the $$ to shell out for a satellite dish?
Neutering day
Tomorrow morning Simba gets dropped off at the vet to get neutered. We’ll drop him off first thing tomorrow morning, the vet will do his snippy-snippy thing and then we’ll pick him up toward the end of the day.
Hopefully it won’t take too long for all that excess testosterone to get out of him. I’ve heard it can take a month or so for some of those hormone-driven behaviours to go away. Although he’s still a happy and playful dog, he’s been getting more defensive about his toys with other dogs around. He and Nala will play just fine with their toys and have no problem with a good game of tug, but if another dog tries to do the same he freezes and growls at the other dog. I’m hoping that’s one of the behaviours that will go away. I’m also hoping he calms down a little afterwards too so we can have them out of their crates at the same time.
Nala goes in tomorrow as well to get updated on her shots. She won’t be staying for the day though.
Peeping into the brain
BrainMaps.org is totally cool. 50 TB of images of the brains of 12 different animals (so far). You can zoom in to see microscopic structures with a resolution of just under 0.5μm per pixel. One of their recent papers in NeuroImage describes the technique they used to acquire and assemble the images. Pretty cool stuff.
BrainMaps.org is an interactive zoomable high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on over 15 million megapixels of scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Tyto alba.
Found via ScienceDaily
More on the viola
Inside the body of the viola, there are two stickers. One sticker says
A. R. Seidel
Mittenwald OBB
Handmade copy of
Antonius Stradivarius West Germany
This sticker has 1986 written on it.
