I took lots of pictures at Steinhart.

But oh, what a wondrous cow! She exited the slaughterhouse by jumping over a gate. Next she was seen in the middle of an intersection. Cornered, she went through a fence, and was almost hit by a car. She went toward the railroad tracks, ran in front of a locomotive, then was almost struck by a tractor-trailer. That was before she jumped into the Missouri River.

It goes on, one escape after another. Unfortunately, she was caught after being hit with three tranquilizer darts.

At the National University of Singapore, scientists have developed an artificial leg that offers a comfortable socket fit, while reducing the number of stages needed to produce a finished product.

Starting with ‘cranium’.

There are several companies researching technical analysis of music with the aim of recommending songs similar to the ones you like.

SIMAC (Semantic Interaction with Music Audio Contents) is EU-funded, and its members are working on tools to help music lovers find, sort, and organize growing collections.

Every day, he went to the train station to meet his master, Professor Eisaburo Ueno, after work. When the professor died, Hachiko kept showing up at the station, and continued to do so for 11 years.

To honor his loyalty, a statute was created, but wound up being recycled during WW II. Later, another was made, and still stands in front of the train station.

On display at the North American International Auto Show next week.

It’s a cross between a pug and a beagle. To me, pugs always looked a bit over the top, which is part of their enormous charm.

The puggle looks like it could be the pug’s urbane, well-heeled, dashing European cousin, able to bark in five languages, and adequately funded by Silicon Valley vcs.

In Malaysia, researchers find that cinnamon lowers blood sugar levels of Type II diabetes patients. Cinnamon extract mimics the action of insulin in the body, reported Mohammed Roji, leader of the study.

Yesterday, I decided it was time for some puffy, yeasty pastries, using a recipe out of Cooking From Quilt Country by Marcia Adams. Specifically, the Suetta Bechtel cinnamon roll recipe.

It calls for 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes, unseasoned, nothing added. I used leftovers. And three envelopes of yeast.

My yeast supply is ample, having caved in to the Costco-sized container some time ago. The ’some time ago’ is key here. My rolls did not rise to great heights.

They turned out misshapen and heavy, but are redeemed by the icing, which contains a stick of butter, among other good things.

Such notables as Newton, Einstein, Berlioz, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Michelangelo, Turner, and Warhol all exhibited signs of disease such as autism, gout, stroke, myopia, depression, cataracts, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dementia.

Researchers say that the work of certain famous authors, artists, composers, and scientists have been influenced by their conditions and their adaptations to these disorders.

It is a restaurant sign with realistically aggressive claws and eyestalks.

Other large sea creature signs can be seen in Osaka too.

The explosion near the Sea of Rains, or Mare Imbrium, was probably caused by a meteoroid from a taurid meteor shower.