Recommended today — June 21, 2011

If you live on San Juan Island or need an excuse to go visit, go listen to Sheila Patek, a biologist from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, give the distinguished public lecture on “Evolutionary mechanics of movement and communication in the sea” at the Friday Harbor Labs.

Tue, June 21, 7pm at the Juan Community Theater, 100 2nd Street, Friday Harbor, WA (map). Free.

Directions at http://www.sjctheatre.org/sjctInfo/directions.asp

Patek is a great speaker doing pretty exciting and weird research as evidenced by this 2004 TED talk:

I’m really sorry that I won’t be able to attend.