Day 5100: Daughter was an only child & Smallest Bone in the Body.

"Erin @ 4": photo, collage & digital.

  

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    Click: Marvin Gaye, After the Dance.

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I am hunting an ancient blog, not this one, but I thought this 

was good enough to share again, since written in 2012, Day 47!  

My daughter was an only child. 

   But, she has brothers and sisters.

Mutually adopted, this family 

of five grew up together.

Big sister Lisa, a caring guardian, even then.

Three purple belt sisters at Japan Expo Tournament.

There are,  in this world, 

special, good people who fly into our lives 

and if we are very lucky, 

they stay for a long, long time. 

(They are all in their 50's now, and still close)

   

Smaller Than a Grain of Rice —Yet Essential for Hearing

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes, a tiny stirrup-shaped bone located deep inside your middle ear. Measuring only about 2.5–3.5 millimeters in length and weighing just a few milligrams, it's often smaller than a single grain of rice.

Despite its tiny size, the stapes has a huge responsibility. It works alongside two other middle ear bones—the malleus (hammer) and incus (anvil)—to transmit sound vibrations from your eardrum to the inner ear. These vibrations are then converted into electrical signals that your brain interprets as sound. Without the stapes, hearing would be dramatically reduced.

The stapes is also the smallest and lightest bone in the entire human skeleton. Its unique shape resembles a horse's stirrup, which is how it got its name. Because it plays such a crucial role in hearing, conditions affecting the stapes, such as otosclerosis (abnormal bone growth), can lead to hearing loss and may require surgery to restore hearing.

It's incredible to think that one of the most important parts of our hearing system is a bone so small it can sit beside a grain of rice on your fingertip. Tiny bone. Massive job.

 

#HumanBody #ScienceFacts #Anatomy #MedicalFacts #DidYouKnow #EarAnatomy #HealthEducation #AmazingFacts

  

  

 

A 2+ minute video, Benson House, Calabasas , here.

 

 

Just because ...

Black-faced Dacnis

Tuesday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.

  

 

 

Day 5099: Friday is Beatriz Day! & China's AI Servers to Ocean Floor.

an old sketch on newsprint with markers, in a journal.

  

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    Click: Commodores, Just to be Close to You.

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Friday's are Beatriz Days! 

Good friend and spectacular artist, Beatriz Helton, and I have dubbed Friday as our day together when we can. We have lunch, yesterday at Olive Garden, then we visited the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. It is a lovely venue in downtown Orange, which is a small college town, It is free admission, and free parking, all rare for museums. They had a portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert who made this quality museum possible. Beatriz and I said thank you as we went by. There are two large adjacent galleries and they rescued a massive mosaic by California artist, Millar Sheets, from a defunct Saving and Loan in Los Angeles. 

Too large to get it all without moving back, and too hot to do that.

by Beatriz

We both took pictures of various artworks, I'll let you guess who took what? Main thing is we both had a fun day. I have done earlier blogs about Beatriz, here, here, here, here & here.

"Young Horse with Bird" a Bronze by Mark Edward Adams

close-up of above

And the day ended with popsicles at my place. Day 2, in the books.

   

China is exploring underwater data centers by placing sealed server modules on the ocean floor, where the naturally cold seawater helps cool high-performance computers.

Conventional data centers require large amounts of electricity for cooling and, in some locations, significant quantities of freshwater. By taking advantage of the consistently low temperatures found in deeper ocean water, underwater facilities can greatly reduce the energy needed for cooling while minimizing—or in some cases eliminating—the use of freshwater cooling systems.

Reports of up to a 90% reduction in cooling energy refer specifically to the electricity used for cooling, not the total energy consumption of the entire data center. The overall efficiency still depends on factors such as the hardware, workload, and operating environment.

As artificial intelligence drives demand for more computing power, underwater data centers are emerging as one of several technologies being tested to improve energy efficiency and reduce the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure.

Whether they become widely adopted will depend on long-term performance, maintenance costs, environmental impacts, and how they compare with other cooling technologie

  

  

 

A 1+ minute video, Gabrielle Garland's houses, here.

 

 

Just because ...

Mountain Fruit Dove

Monday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you feel all the good things in your day.