Animated Video.

http://nyti.ms/1m9znH7

In 1674, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked at a drop of lake water through his homemade microscope and discovered an invisible world that no one knew existed. He was an unlikely pioneer — a haberdasher and city official by trade. In this film, we celebrate this 17th-century citizen scientist and a discovery that would ultimately change our view of the biological world, and our place in it.

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Rory Pierce

See the 2014 Pierce Family Soccer Schedule at the Pierce Family Website here.

2014 SOCCER SCHEDULE

CADIE

RORY

SNOWFLAKE BARBARIANS

Great streaming coverage of US Open matches at the US Open website.  No commercials.  Choice of courts.  Two courts at a time.  http://www.usopen.org/index.html

Too good to be true . . .

Very cool.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/august/fields-medal-mirzakhani-081214.html

Stanford’s Maryam Mirzakhani wins Fields Medal

Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal – known as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics” – in recognition of her contributions to the understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces.

By Bjorn Carey

Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, has been awarded the 2014 Fields Medal, the most prestigious honor in mathematics. Mirzakhani is the first woman to win the prize, widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize of mathematics,” since it was established in 1936.

Robert and the kids went on a 3+mile backpacking trip in the Sierras last weekend.  We camped out at Chickenfoot Lake in the Little Lakes Basin.  Sydney (age 7) and Wyatt (age 4) and the rest of the Landis family joined us. The kids rose to the challenge.  We sure are proud of them, including Rory, Sydney, and Wyatt, who carried their own packs.

Mira, who twisted her ankle on the tennis court earlier in the week, did not hike and instead waited for us at the nearby Rock Creek Lodge, which, conveniently enough, arranges spa treatments.

Each year, after returning from our annual hiking trip, the Pierce family, at mother’s request, typically starts to review glamping websites. To no avail . . .

http://glamping.com/

We made it to the hot springs and washed off 2 days of trail grit. Ahhhh . . .