At the ends of the aisles, there were helpful labels where girls and boys would find toys to their liking. Want a dolly or pink building blocks!? Look here, little girl! Like dinosaurs and activity? You must be a boy - check aisle E14. I didn't photograph all the labels, but that was the theme. SO stereotypical, SO archaic. What's up with you, Target? I do believe we'll be having an MPA writing assignment directed to corporate offices asking them about their apparent gender biases/blatant sexism. So stupid.
FIRED UP: We've still got our eyes on Rosetta - the European Space Agency mission set to land on a comet in a little over a month.
Check out this very cool photo of said comet (with the very long and not catchy name of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko). It looks a bit like a barbell, no?
Per an NASA/JPL press release today, we learn the jet activity at the "neck" of the comet are a product of ices sublimating and gases escaping from inside the nucleus.
For more information on the U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta, check out http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov.
More information about Rosetta is also available on the ESA Web site: http://www.esa.int/rosetta.
HUNTING, GATHERING: Today, we tore around the greater Seattle area in search of Stuff. We listened to a couple of "History of Rock 'n' Roll" lectures whilst we made our rounds.
In other news, we each recently got notice our final grades for "The Camera Never Lies" course (via Coursera), about how photographic images (many manipulated) have been used to convey messages throughout history. The kids each passed the class "with distinction." I just passed, which is OK by me. ;)
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