We visited the California Academy of Sciences this past weekend. It boasts “Earth, Ocean, Space”, kind of a three-for-one deal, except that you’re not getting exactly the largest collection of each. I hadn’t been there before, probably because the Monterey Bay Aquarium beats Steinhart by a landslide (errr, waterslide?), and I don’t really like looking at animal bones and dead things (though I do love rocks and minerals). It wasn’t bad, especially since my expectations were so low. There is a gallery of Gary Larson’s The Far Side originals, which are surprisingly relevant. The special exhibit, Venoms, is being sponsored by Microsoft and Bank of America (insert your own ironic joke here). I realized that most of the dinosaur facts I learned in elementary school are outdated. The dinosaurs don’t even have the same names anymore. How strange that I’m more up to date on new technologies than ancient Earth history. Dinosaurs hold their tails up off the ground in depictions these days. But I think they still say poor Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut.