I Took The Train! And Then The Other Train
I had a pretty great day on Tuesday, which is why I never had time to post more blog items.

I'm doing speaking engagements now, and I gave a talk to hundreds of students and some faculty in the Psych department at Cal State Fullerton about applied science -- how science can be used to solve your problems or problems in society, and how you can maybe even make a career of that.

I loved the people there -- students and faculty -- and it went really well. I got to see the cool lab of my friend, twins researcher Nancy Segal, most recently the author of Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior.

The night before, I stayed over at Gregg's and he drove me to Union Station in downtown LA, where I caught a train to Fullerton. It was super-pleasant and only a half hour and cost me $12. This is a photo I took just outside the Fullerton train station.

Gregg had to work until 6 p.m., and Uber was on surge pricing, and I was trying to figure out how expensive it would be to get to his place when I ran into Mr. Train, Tom Zoellner (author of the book Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World--from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief).

Tom told me to take the subway -- which I ended up doing, though I snarled at how muddled and hard to decipher the maps are and how there is not a soul to help you. I finally caught the red line to Hollywood and Highland, which was much closer to Gregg's, and he came and picked me up. This is the Hollywood sky as I walked along Hollywood toward Gregg's.

Miss Thing spent the day at Gregg's, extorting walks and other goodies.

This photo of her is from the day before. Joyce Benenson, one of the researchers who gave a talk at the Northeast Evolutionary Psychology Society conference in Boston this past week and weekend, mentioned that she had a book out in passing in an email. I looked it up, and -- coolio -- it was Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes, and I'd just gotten it at SPSP, the big psych conference I'd attended in Long Beach. I sent her what I thought would be a fun pic of it.

I'll be having her on my radio show to discuss it soon. Joyce, that is, not Aida, my dog.