chase this light

Dr. Sanjay Gupta is coming to Santa Barbara

aka my hero from CNN

Millions of TV viewers know Dr. Sanjay Gupta as CNN’s Emmy-winning chief medical correspondent and trust him for their critical health information. The charismatic journalist, neurosurgeon and best-selling author will deliver an in-depth examination of the media’s role in reporting on today’s sometimes scary and shocking medical headlines. With examples from his own work – such as post-9/11 reports on anthrax – Dr. Gupta uses his unique expertise seen on programs like Anderson Cooper 360° and Sanjay Gupta, MD to address the responsibility of news reporting in the public health arena.

anyways, twenty eight bucks, a sunday afternoon, state street.
anyone wanna come with meeee?

and stocked up on lentils to make sure my iron counts are high enough

//if you’re in IV, come with me on monday!

fuckyeahsantabarbara:

The Independent published a great breakdown of the recent shark sightings in the Santa Barbara area. Pretty awesome if you ask me! Not so awesome if you are in the water and get the poop scared out of you by a shark, but they are magnificent creatures and it is both scary and wonderful to know that they are out there swimming around enjoying the summer just like us!

(above photo is of a Tiger Shark)

• April 18, S.B. Waterfront: An adult female sea lion is found injured near Stearns Wharf. A large bite out of her stomach is later attributed by experts to be the result of a chomp from a great white shark. Based on bite marks, the shark is estimated to be a juvenile approximately eight to nine feet in length.

• July 8, Channel Islands:An estimated 15- to 17-foot great white shark is reported by a fisherman three miles north of Santa Cruz Island.

• July 24, Santa Barbara Beaches:Shark warning signs are posted at all city beaches after an obviously injured adult sea lion is seen by officials on East Beach and a buoy just outsideS.B.Harbor. After studying bite marks, experts believe the sea lion was bitten by a great white. Later recovered by the Marine Mammal Center, the sea lion is eventually euthanized.

• July 25, Leadbetter Point:Charter boat captain Dan Collie witnesses a shark feeding on a sea lion just up the coast from Leadbetter Beach.

• Early August, Gaviota State Park:Officials and regulars at Gaviota State Park’s pier report numerous sightings of a “large shark,” believed to be a great white, swimming close to the pier pilings.

• August 13, Carpinteria:Volunteers for theS.B.Marine Mammal Center pick up an injured young male Pacific Harbor seal on the beach just east of the seal rookery in Carpinteria. After studying the bite marks, it is believed that the seal was bitten twice by a juvenile great white shark.

• August 14, Carpinteria:A paddleboarder reports seeing an approximately eight-foot shark swimming outside the marker buoys offshore of Carpinteria Beach.

• August 14, Santa Barbara:Warning signs are once again posted at area beaches after a group of surfers get chased from the waves at Leadbetter Beach by a shark. Eyewitnesses say the shark had a spread between its dorsal and tail fin of six or seven feet, indicating that the shark was roughly 10 to 14 feet in total length.

• August 15:Harbor officials confirm that a local urchin diver saw an estimated six-foot great white shark in the waters near the Mesa lighthouse, just west of Leadbetter. The diver was in 20 feet of water when she had the run-in.

• August 19, Goleta:Warning signs are again posted at area beaches, just a day after coming down, after a fisherman saw a 10-foot shark while working the waters well offshore of Goleta Beach early Sunday morning.

my roommate and i saw a TON while at IV beach on sunday!

and having to distinguish between santa barbara home and home home (texas)

it’s really making me realize how santa barbara/ucsb is becoming a new kind of home for me and like realizing how much i love it there, even when taken out of that bubble and out of the moment

fortunatelyy:

6119 UCSB: Storke Stonehenge? by SBA John Wiley on Flickr.

campus seems so small in the realm of things…whoa.

fortunatelyy:

UCEN from the Lagoon-UCSB by > PanArt < on Flickr.

take me there akfj;ds

sometimes I forget how beautiful my campus is…

koalasaur:

which has the best breakfast, just fyi, and I look out to my right and there is the lagoon and the birds are singing a little song and the morning ocean fog is slowly burning off and oh my fucking god, UCSB is so ridiculously perfect sometimes that it’s almost annoying haha. Seriously though.

01/20/2011 - Steve Aoki + Datsik

paulvibritannia:

Thought this up while biking home just now…

*Bioshock Reference*

Times Higher Education World Rankings 2011-2012

kekekelvin:

#winning at #35 worldwide.

(Source: koko-channel)