Thanks to all for the great time last night! Kelly, Anna, and Drew were really fantastic, no? I bet you were super-inspired to learn more about their topics.
Good news, everyone! Here’s a bunch of materials cited by our speakers, and some resources available through our friends at the San Francisco Public Library.
“Big Brains in the Deep Blue Sea” by Drew Halley
Let’s just get this out of the way: LL Cool J’s “Deepest Bluest (Shark’s Fin)”, a terrible song for a terrible movie. How terrible is it? The chorus is “Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark’s fin”. Repeat x8.
The Principles of Brain Evolution. Striedter, 2007
Variation in brain organization and cerebellar foliation in Chondrichthyans: sharks and holocephalans. Yopak et al. 2007. Brain Behavior & Evolution
Understanding vertebrate brain evolution. Northcutt 2002. Integrative & Comparative Biology
From the SFPL:
Apetalk & Whalespeak: The Quest for Interspecies Communication by Ted Crail
Sharks : ancient predators in a modern sea by Salvador Jorgensen, Ph.D
“Ernie and Bert at the South Pole” by Dr. Anna Franckowiak
IceCube’s (the neutrino detector) headquarters at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ice Cube’s (the rapper/”actor”) headquarters
The history of neutrino discovery
Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector IceCube Collaboration. Science 22 November 2013: 342 (6161), 1242856 [DOI:10.1126/science.1242856]
From the SFPL:
Neutrino Cosmology by Julien Lesgourgues … [et al.] (Available as an eBook!)
Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Ray Jayawardhana (Available as an Audiobook!)
The Perfect Wave: With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time by Heinrich Päs
“Monarch the Bear: A Tale of Tycoons, Taxidermy, and the California Flag” by Kelly Jensen
Bears I Have Met – And Others by Allen Kelly (eBook)
Bear In Mind by Susan Snyder. All the pictures of California Grizzlies you can handle, plus original source documents.
Monarch’s taxidermied hide is kept in the California Academ of Sciences’s Ornithology and Mammalogy collection, a research collection containing over 135,000(!) specimens.
Talk to Kelly on Twitter – she’s funny and does cool stuff!
From the SFPL:
After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California by Peter S. Alagona
The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy by Dave Madden