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Ocean Alliance began working with drones in 2013. Within the last few years, they began collecting exhaled breath condensation, also known as "whale snot."

The whale snot is a biological jackpot with DNA, microbiomes, and hormones. This data was nearly impossible to collect from a live whale. 

"I've seen more unique behaviors from a drone in the last five years than I've seen in the previous 25," Kerr said.

They’re apparently also using the drones to tag them for GPS tracking, really cool use for them.

Inspired by me learning that I can check out solar panels (hiking sized, not house sized) at the library.

More information on CicLAvia’s website here.

Even if you don’t have your own bike, there are lots of Metro bikes to rent near the route for $1.75/30 minutes. You can find a map of bike stations here.

The LA LGBT Center has released a proposition voting guide with their recommendations.

You can get involved by using the iNaturalist app and joining the challenge.

The primary objective of this is to both get people more engaged and aware of their local wildlife, and to eliminate white areas with no observations on the iNaturalist observation heat map. This will help researchers learn more about urban ecosystems.

Apparently it’s a promotion for Clean Air Day, I had no idea it was going on until I got on the bus to go to the store today.

Obviously learning a couple of words in another language doesn't really make you bilingual, or being able to say a few phrases. But there's also clearly some point before full fluency where you can be considered bilingual, but how is it determined (formally or informally)? Is it purely vibes based, you'll know when you see it kind of thing?

I'm vaguely familiar with the CEFR levels measuring how much of a language you speak, but if there's a cutoff point for counting as bilingual in there somewhere I don't know where.

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