Cleaning out a stack of old magazines, I ran across a 2010 National Geographic mag.. Article/fotos about a research team in Senegal finding/excavating earliest human bones.
Project leader wearing a Cal hat. I grinned.

After scrambling around National Geographic home page, and searching the actual title of the article, here is what I found. Tim White is the Cal guy.

"All of a sudden you've got fingers and toes and arms and legs and heads and teeth," [U]said Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley,[/U] who co-directed the work with Berhane Asfaw, a paleoanthropologist and former director of the National Museum of Ethiopia, and Giday WoldeGabriel, a geologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

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I am giving my very bright gdtr a subscription to National Geographic for her 11th birthday next week,...along with some roses....

11 year olds have all the STUFF they need so gdma has think awhile about gifts.
She already says she is going to attend Cal!!



Very cool.

I remember that, proud to see a Cal hat on an African dig. I wonder if I saw it posted here, anybody?

More likely because I know of WoldeGabriel, he dates human remains by analyzing the surrounding volcanic ash layers. Good to see the recruiting potential!

MoragaBear;842800754 said:

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People saw me repping Cal gear in England, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, Liechtenstein, Zurich, Paris, Luxembourg, Brussels and Copenhagen so far in the last week and a half. No Go Bears yet, though.

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I've generally had good luck in the airports and airplanes. If you finally get one...

http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?29302-quot-Go-Bears!-quot-Shout-outs

Enjoy and safe travels...

Tim White was my Anthro 1 prof. During a lecture on early tool making, he calmly brought out a clay Mr Bill who predictably got squashed while the whole lecture hall was screaming, "Oh no".

Almost as entertaining as Glenn Seaborg's Big Game titration or spinning unsuspecting friends around in the middle of their CalSO presentations in the same spot.

I once got a GO BEARS when walking in a mall in Singapore while wearing a Cal t-shirt. But more recently, on Friday, I had just parked in the garage at the University Hospital Main Campus (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) where my mom is being treated and was walking over the elevated bridge to the hospital, wearing my classic Cal pullover with California Berkeley and the Golden Walking bear image under an open winter coat and got a GO BEARS all of a sudden from a young fellow passing.

oskigobears;842800733 said:

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11 year olds have all the STUFF they need so gdma has think awhile about gifts.
She already says she is going to attend Cal!!

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Good for her, a very smart 11 yr. old. Maybe she'll live to see the Bears in the Rose Bowl.....

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Tim White was my Anthro 1 prof. During a lecture on early tool making, he calmly brought out a clay Mr Bill who predictably got squashed while the whole lecture hall was screaming, "Oh no".

Almost as entertaining as Glenn Seaborg's Big Game titration or spinning unsuspecting friends around in the middle of their CalSO presentations in the same spot.

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Likely a different year, but he did the same thing when I had him for Anthro 1. He's a really good teacher and was amazingly approachable in office hours, especially since he was at the very top of his field even back then and we were just non-majors taking the intro-level course. I might've learned more sheer "stuff" in that class than in any other at Cal.

I saw a Cal cap on a bicycling native on a trail in Bora Bora a few years ago.

bipolarbear;842800823 said:

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I saw a Cal cap on a bicycling native on a trail in Bora Bora a few years ago.

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Was he huge? Maybe we should recruit him for football?

Alas no. A small man. I Go Bears'd him but no reply.

bipolarbear;842800852 said:

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Alas no. A small man. I Go Bears'd him but no reply.

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Haha. Was he French?

Big C_Cal;842800821 said:

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Likely a different year, but he did the same thing when I had him for Anthro 1. He's a really good teacher and was amazingly approachable in office hours, especially since he was at the very top of his field even back then and we were just non-majors taking the intro-level course. I might've learned more sheer "stuff" in that class than in any other at Cal.

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Was in '79 or '80. Was pleasantly surprised that a guy that accomplished at such a young age was teaching an intro class. Not at all surprised he went on to accomplish bigger and better things.

Likely spent the Summers on digs in far off lands, but slightly bummed he never gave lectures during CalSO. Slottman, Alan Dundes, and Marian Diamond were all terrific, but White was also an extremely talented lecturer. Diamond would always display brains and the smallest one was attributed to an 'SC football player.

BearDevil;842800889 said:

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Was in '79 or '80. Was pleasantly surprised that a guy that accomplished at such a young age was teaching an intro class. Not at all surprised he went on to accomplish bigger and better things.

Likely spent the Summers on digs in far off lands, but slightly bummed he never gave lectures during CalSO. Slottman, Alan Dundes, and Marian Diamond were all terrific, but White was also an extremely talented lecturer. Diamond would always display brains and the smallest one was attributed to an 'SC football player.

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It might have actually been the same year. The class was in the old PSL. Apparently, you too were a child prodigy and began college at age six!

(When Slottman showed the brains, the smallest one was attributed to a certain Cal QB who went #1 in the NFL Draft... no, not Jared Goff.)

I saw a kid in a CAL hat in a remote area of northern India. I told him Go Bears and pointed to my hat. His dad asked what I meant and I told him it was a greeting CAL fans give each other. He explained that his sister lived in Berkeley and sent the hat to her nephew, however they lived in CALcutta and thought he'd get a kick out of the CAL hat