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Salutations
This page is not pretty. It is simply a convenient place for me to list some links instead of cluttering my main page.

My background is in biological physics; my Ph.D. is in physics from Princeton University with Sol Gruner. At Princeton I studied how the lipid composition of a membrane altered the activity of an ion channel in that membrane using voltage-clamping and x-ray scattering. I then became a post-doc with Joe Zasadzinski back when he was at the University of California at Santa Barbara. There, I looked at other membrane and surfactant systems with electron microscopy. I did a second postdoc at Stanford with Harden McConnell and studied lipids in monolayers: how the miscibility critical point and the propensity for complex formation depend on lipid composition. I have been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Washington since 2000.

UW and Seattle
UW voice mail system and commands quick reference
One bus away: Track buses to UW and Seattle in real time Traffic alerts for Washington State
Robot lawyer for Seattle parking tickets
Seattle Light Rail
Where to locally dispose of anything (e.g. compact fluorescents, smoke detectors) (Not only for Seattle)
Where to donate magazines - Urban Rest Stop
Where to donate furniture - to previously homeless families
Where to donate interview-appropriate clothes and accessories for women
Local Precipitation and Water Supplies
Washington Trails Association
Seattle dance scene (everything)


Travel
UW Global Travelers Services (e.g. International emergency number)
US Dept of State travel warnings
Bed Bug Reports
Maps of U.S. States
Sabbatical House Exchange
"Doctor in the House" accommodation London/Edinburgh


Kid Stuff
SEATTLE SCHOOLS:
School lunch menus
School snow-day listings (search for your district)
Seattle public schools online communication ("The Source")
SEATTLE ACTIVITIES:
Free Family Fun Day at the Wing Luke Museum (third Saturdays)
Free first Saturdays at the Asian Art Museum
Folk Life Festival (Late May)
Seattle Science Festival (June)
SUMMER CAMPS:
Burke Museum day camp
UW Botanic Gardens, 1st-6th grade, 15% discount to UW
Seattle Audubon Day Camp (grades 1-9).
summerfun Performing and Visual Arts Daycamp (age 7-12, 3 week)
Neo Art School
Sewing camp classes (9-3, Ballard)
Woodland Park Zoo Camps
UCDS Summer Camps
Pacific Science Center (K-9)
Seattle Aquarium
Camp ZinZanni
Raspberry Pyrates Coding Camp for Girls 3 days only?
UW Summer Youth Programs day camp
Arena Sports Soccer Camp
Arena Sports - General
UW Sports Camps
DiscNW Ultimate Camps
Dance Fremont summer program
The Center for Wooden Boats (ages 9+)
Girls Leadership Institute, Bay Area, grade 6-8 wknds, grade 9-12 overnight 2 wks
Girls Rock Camp in Portland (ages 8-17, registration open Jan 1)
Girls Rock Camp in Seattle (ages 8-17, opens April 2)
iD Tech Camps STEM (ages 7-17, held at UW)
Digital Media Academy (ages 6-17, held at UW)
Camp Sealth, Overnight "resident" camp on Vashon Island (entering grades 1+).
YMCA Camp Orkila, Overnight camp on Orcas Island, entering grade 6+.
Camp Nor'Wester, Overnight camp on John's Island (4 week sessions).
Wilderness Awareness School Camp, Overnight camp for ages 11+. Day camps from 6-12, but far away.
Robinson Center summer program (5th-10th grade)
Center for Talented Youth (7th grade and above is in Seattle, take test for eligibility)
UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars (Grades 5-6, Grades 7-10)
NOAA Science Camp for Middle Schoolers (Grades 7-8)
NOAA Junior Leadership Program Camp (Grades 9-12)
Microsoft Digigirlz Day and High Tech Camp (High School)
Girls Adventures in Math, Eng, and Sci (U of Illinois) (entering Grades 9-12)
Summer Institute for Mathematics at UW (High school, after 3 yrs high school math)
Washington Business Week (grade 9-12 at UW Tacoma) DANCE AND KARATE:
Spectrum Dance Theater
eXit SPACE young dancer program
Feminist Karate Union. Also heard good things about Washington Karate Assn, Ballard Dojo (Greenwood)
HOW TO GET STUFF OUT OF YOUR HOUSE:
New Beginnings - Battered women and their children, 206-926-3034.
Baby Boutique - For homeless families, 206-902-4270.
West Side Baby - Clothing and toys for infants in homeless and low-income families, 206-767-1662.
Treehouse - For foster kids
Elizabeth Gregory House - Homeless women (no children) in U-District
BOOKS:
Math Start / Stuart Murphy (e.g. Missing Mittens) Macaulay: (Castle, Cathedral, City, Mill, Mosque, Pyramid, Rome Antics, Ship, Underground), Howtoons
Online lists of recommendations for kid lit: Berkeley parent's network for 5-6 year olds, 7-9 year olds, Age appropriate for advanced readers, including Discussion of gender issues. More for advanced readers (with summaries). A mighty girl books. Kid lit that has won awards, NPR kid lit ages 9+, NPR's 100 best books for 9-14, NPR's 100 best teen novels, NPR's 100 best graphic novels, Gutenberg - free downloads, e.g. Ozma of Oz, Molly Moon (free reads)
GAMES AND TOYS:
Set, Tangoes, Rivers Roads and Rails, ThinkFun River Crossing, ThinkFun Rush Hour, ThinkFun Chocolate Fix, ThinkFun Tilt, ThinkFun Safari Undercover, Castle Logix, Lab coat and goggles for 18-inch doll, Kid-friendly Microscope, or the "Duoscope" microscope by My First Lab (recommended by Kit!)
APPs:
Math Girl (Number Garden and Addition House), Motion Math (Hungry Fish, Zoom, and Wings), Simple Physics, Dragon Box
DVDS:
Schoolhouse Rock, TMBG Here Come the ABCs, TMBG Here come the 123s, TMBG Here Comes Science, Electric Company, Anything by Attenborough (e.g. Life of Birds)
KINDIE ROCK:
OK Go's Three Primary Colors
I love to rhyme all of the time
TMBG "Big Box of Free Things"
6 Seattle Kindie Rock Bands
Caspar Babypants
Recess Monkey
Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child and its Audio Archives
Bill and Ella
Science Fair
Singing Science Records
FREE ONLINE RESOURCES:
Cootie Catcher with 3-letter phonetic words.
Ages 0-100 in 150 seconds
Pet Watch (Is your exotic pet eco-friendly or a terror?)
Beginner origami for kids
Reign of Aquaria
MARINE BIOLOGY: Monterrey Aquarium Critter Cards, Oregon Coast Aquarium Outreach Program Activities: see "From Tube Feet to Tentacles", etc.
MATH: Telegraph Gridclub (5-12), Cambridge Math Games (5-19), DuPage Children's Museum Math Challenges, UCSB math circle problems, Math for love (Seattle) and its salon, Seattle GEMS competition (March), Squares of Differences, One-Two Nim Game, Khan Academy. MUSIC: Band music: Standard of Excellence Book 1
SCHOOL: 30 questions to replace "How was your day?", How to ace teacher conferences
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: Signing Savvy dictionary, My Smart Hands (for kids). Numbers 1-10, ASL Letters, Video1, Video2, and Video3
KARATE: Heian Nidan and Matsukaze
SCIENCE: Instructables Easy Squiggle Bot, Science toys to make, Science activities from Zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom, Activity pages at the Smithsonian, What is a flame?, Why does sweat stink?, What is hemoglobin?, Plate Tectonics simplified, CDC epidemiology puzzle iPad app
CODING: Digigirlz online instructions for podcast and web design, Grace Hopper documentary
PRETEENS AND TEENS: Great Conversations with Preteens, Sexual consent: "Unconscious people don't want tea!", Lisa Wade on college hookup culture, Self-defense at "Just Yell Fire!", X-plan Rookie mag (e.g. "Friends with prejudice"), Is it real news or fake news? "Checkology" virtual classroom, Seattle's Teen Tix ($5 shows for 13-19 year olds), Actual net cost at ~1,500 colleges (2015)
VIDEO TROVES
The Kid Should See This (blog)
Nature Boom Time
Emily Graslie's Brain Scoop
The Field Museum's videos and blog
HHMI's short science education films
The Sci Show
It's OKAY to be Smart (Youtube) and at PBS
Tom McFadden's Science Raps
Sylvia's Maker Show
Lovely visualizations of probability
Search for El Perro Y El Gato on YouTube


Pleasant ways to spend time that I don't actually have

VISUALIZATION AND STATISTICS: Font Sunday / Gapminder, Hans Rosling and his Greatest Hits, including the Joy of Stats / Information is Beautiful / Junk Charts / Maps of Racial Segregation in U.S. Cities / Ben Goldacre battling bad science / The price of gas / Correlation v. causation: Did Ava's cause the housing bubble? / NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, including Perpetual ocean, and its mirror on YouTube / Five thirty eight. RADIO AND PODCASTS: Radiolab at WNYC - Ring Cycle story The Ring and I" / The Moth Radio Hour / The Naked Scientists. BROTHERHOOD 2.0: blog or YouTube channel (e.g. 53 Terrible Jokes on 27Oct2013 and 9Mar2007 Peeptastic) MAKING AND LEARNING STUFF: iTunesU.com free university lectures / Traveler's IQ Challenge / instructables.com / Making tortillas COMICS: PhD comics / Poorly Drawn Lines / Incidental Comics, including Stray Books and Haruki Murakami bingo

Box of Happy
2 hamsters, 1 wheel
Kitten vs. a waggy tail
Buddy and the automatic fetch machine
3 girls dance to James Brown
Turtle pullups
Pug with a box
PES
Cowboys herding cats
Maya Rudolph's vajingle
OK Go videos
Car and Driver on OK Go
OK Go - 3 primary colors
Mukhtars Fodselsdag
What we should call grad school, (e.g. Going anywhere for break?)
John Waters' No Smoking PSA
Germany v Greece Philosophy Football
Our paperless future
Advanced Faculty Wrangling
Skeletor Affirmations
Google Science Fair (Pause video, hit up & left simultanously, play Snake.)
Nice example of Balboa
Minimiam: tiny people + food.
Lou Reed's Perfect Day covered by Andrew Bird and Matt Berninger
Ramones v. Misfits pie charts
Festo bionic air-penguins
Need a Tudor?
100 books that SHOULD be written
CGP Grey talking fast
Fotoshop by Adob'e
Klimas crashing porcelain figurines
Natural Histories Project
xkcd's Exoplanets; This is an exciting time.
15th C. Flemish portraits in airplane lav
Sympathy cards for scientists
Box 18


Random
Beautiful Dead Bugs
Supernumary rainbows
AK Fedeau
Feminist Punk in 33 Songs
NYT's U.S. dialect map
RADIO - online radio stations all across the world
RADIO - KTRU RealAudio webcast
FiveThirtyEight's wedding playlist
Which US states take the most federal tax money?
Joan Williams on 'What so many people don't get about the U.S. working class'
Dan Savage's 'Unsolicited advice for Hillary Clinton'
"Know your rights" at U.S. airports & ports of entry


Save Trees: Reduce junk mail