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Too Few Women Leaders – Sheryl Sandberg

umbreen — Fri, 13 May 2011 11:17:11 +0000

Great video that basically summarizes the key points of ‘The Sexual Paradox’ in under 15 minutes. (Yeay for maximizing time efficiency. :) )

A Remarkably Poorly Understood Brain

umbreen — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:09:16 +0000

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

umbreen — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:31:06 +0000

Or uhh– thankfully not so mutant, not so ninja turtles.

Went to Sandspit beach this weekend and was lucky enough to be there for turtle egg laying season. We saw TWO turtles coming up from the ocean (those cuties are NOT as slow as you would think for a turtle and are really big) and we say them dig their hole and start laying the eggs.The local peeps who protect the turtles told us to keep away from the turtles until they start laying their eggs (otherwise they get afraid and run away aborting the turtle babies for the year). Once they started laying their eggs we got closer to take a look. It was amazing – right under their back legs is a surprisingly deep hole which had over two dozen eggs.Apparently each turtle will lay between 100 – 120 eggs. Once the turtles lay the eggs and go back to the sea the local peeps dig them up and move them to fenced off location where they are safe from predators like dogs and of course humans. We either saw the Green Sea Turtle or the Olive Ridley Turtle. My bet is that it was the Green Sea Turtle which as supposed to be big ’cause these guys sure were. (I also kept referring to said turtles as guys, even though they are clearly the opposite.)We also got to see some of the baby turtles that had already hatches (they were probably a couple of weeks old) and released them into the ocean. Pretty cool!

More Turtles on the Beach - Photo Credit Danish Ghazi

Turtles laying eggs - Photo Credit goes to Sami

My life in a poll

umbreen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:06:50 +0000

Some of my peeps would know that I’m in a ‘virtual cold war’ with a certain someone. I decided to do a survey of what my response should be….

Umbreen's Survey

The results are in. Seems like the consensus is that I should call it a truce of sorts. I have equal parts of peeps who would recommend I act like the US (impose embargoes) or like North Korea (truth bombs).

Survey Results

In reality I will attempt to write this certain someone a measured and thoughtful email. But I’m am delaying it for now….