Meet the Sea Slugs That Chop Off Their Heads and Grow New Bodies
Their severed heads get around just fine until they regenerate perfectly functioning, parasite-free new bodies, scientists say.
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A sea slug’s head moves around three days after the invertebrate decapitated itself from its body. The body, still alive, reacts slightly when touched by the head. Video by Sayaka Mitoh.Credit
By Annie Roth
A few years ago, Sayaka Mitoh, a Ph.D. candidate at Nara Women’s University in Japan, was perusing her lab’s vast collection of sea slugs when she stumbled upon a gruesome sight. One of the lab’s captive-raised sea slugs, an Elysia marginata
Indian-American Naureen Hassan appointed first VP, COO of New York Federal Bank
Naureen Hassan s innings as the first VP and COO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will begin from March 15
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Naureen Hassan (Image: IANS Twitter)
Indian-American financial services industry veteran Naureen Hassan has been appointed as the first Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Hassan s appointment has been approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and her innings as the first VP and COO will begin from March 15.
As the first vice president, Hassan will be the New York Fed s second ranking officer and an alternative voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Hassan s acumen in strategy, digital transformation, cybersecurity and regulatory/risk management is well known.
. By local artist Liz HernaÌndez (center), Conjuro para la sanacioÌn de nuestro futuro is the newest addition to SFMOMA s Bay Area Walls mural series. See it IRL at the museum now. (Courtesy of SFMOMA) San Francisco art museums are reopeningâhere s what to see this spring
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Mar 06, 2021
With Bay Area counties officially in the red tier, local museums are opening their doors with a current maximum capacity of 25 percent.
Expect to book timed tickets in advance and wear your mask to view much-anticipated exhibits such as the de Young s
Calder-Picasso and SFMOMA s
Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis. Here s the lowdown on which museums are open, what s showing, and which hallowed art halls are expected to reopen soon.
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Old First Concerts
Rufus Wainwright
The gay singer-songwriter performs A Rufus-Retro Wainwright-Spective, a series of online Friday night concerts including all of his recorded songs. Tickets $20. https://rufuswainwright.com/
San Francisco Bach Choir
Mar. 6, 10am, PT, Healing and Song, with Melanie DeMore. Mar. 13: Russian Songs from the Heart; more weekly online concerts. https://sfbach.org/
San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus
Enjoy concerts like Angels, (commemorating the 30th anniversary of When We No Longer Touch, the world s first requiem dedicated to those lost to AIDS, recorded in 2018) streaming live March 11, 6pm PT; plus guest performers joining the Behind the Curtain series and Summer Reruns (Britney Coleman, Lisa Vroman, Billy Porter, Wilson Cruz, Adam Rippon, Britney Coleman, Laura Benanti, Andrew Lippa); plus Kristin Chenoweth, Chasten and Pete Buttigieg, Wanda Sykes, Sharon Stone, Martha Wash, India s Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and other performe
As the first vice president, Hassan will be the New York Fed s second ranking officer as well as an alternate voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.