Most backpackers seem to protect their food overnight because they’re worried about bears. In places like the High Sierra, that concern is entirely warranted.

Four faculty members from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. They are among 75 new US and 10 international members elected by their peers for accomplishments and contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health. The new members from Penn are:

I ask them why they joined the China Production Party, and they both say it is because of its founder, Lu Yuexiang. “I read about her online,” Yang says. “She has a loving, compassionate heart. She has helped homeless people, people who were out on the street, find work!”

As it happens, Rickmansworth appears on the first page of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; it’s the town where “a girl sitting on her own in a small café” suddenly discovers the secret to making the world “a good and happy place.” But fate intervenes. “Before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.”

St. Patrick’s Day starts early this year with Buffalo’s famous Irish Stroll bar crawl on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. No admission fees, no worries, and plenty of drink specials are headed your way with an Irish Stroll wristband. Don your green and head out on this thirst-quenching quest to take part in festivities all across town at Buffalo’s favorite hotspots. Better yet – if you and your mates make up a group of over four, you’re eligible for a group discount. The bar crawl is just one of several events happening St. Patrick’s Day weekend – so hardcore leprechaun lovers can pick up a multi-day pass to experience them all.

WNY’s largest indoor family and children’s consignment sale. 50-80% off retail. Something for everyone. Clothing infants-juniors, baby items, strollers, housewares, costumes, books, toys, daddy’s den items, and

That was absolute tosh. Somewhere buried in that sensationalist fear mongering were some valid questions, but you wouldn’t know it. For starters, how about defining what you mean by "chemical"? Water is a chemical, sugar is a chemical, so where are you drawing the line? This was neither a thorough investigation of the current science, nor a contribution to gaps in the science. It was merely quoting a hand picked group of experts. Disappointing, Catalyst.

After a while it became clear that, even in the toy environment of the game, the reward-­maximizing agent was “demonstrably less robust”; the free energy agent had learned its environment better. “It outperformed the reinforcement-­learning agent because it was exploring,” Moran says. In another simulation that pitted the free-­energy-minimizing agent against real human players, the story was similar. The Fristonian agent started slowly, actively exploring options—epistemically foraging, Friston would say—before quickly attaining humanlike performance.

“No one today thinks of Socrates as a solar-energy promoter, for example. Yet never in history has there been a stronger or more eloquent advocate for the use of solar building principles. Xenophon, a disciple of Socrates, presented in a Socratic dialogue the philosopher’s belief that the art of ‘building houses as they ought to be’ was firmly based on the principle ‘that the same house must be both beautiful and useful.’

Here’s how the frame looked after most of the cutting, but prior to slicing away a bit more of the outer wall, and prior to grinding down the bottom of the nine inch section up front to make it perfectly flat:

30mar10:00 am4:00 pmSPECIAL Event- Readings with AngieReadings with Angie10:00 am – 4:00 pm Santosha Holistic Center

To celebrate the Weavers’ Guild of Buffalo 50th Anniversary an exhibit "Golden Web will be held at Fox Run Higgins Art Gallery. The exhibit will feature a variety of