Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Did you know/71

... that a cruffin is a hybrid of a croissant and a muffin, popularized by Mr. Holmes Bakehouse in San Francisco?
... that herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin is commemorated in the scientific names of over a dozen species or subspecies of animals and plants?
... that UC Hastings College of Law professor Dorit Rubinstein Reiss (pictured) has called for examination of the possible legal liabilities which should be faced by parents who opt for non-vaccination, including those who obtain legal exemptions?
... that the Rio Vista Bridge (pictured) won an American Institute of Steel Construction class IV (movable bridges) prize bridge award in 1960?
... that San Francisco music studio Golden State Recorders recorded the Grateful Dead's Birth of the Dead in 1965, which was not released until 2003?
... that U.C. Berkeley professor Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
... that biologist Robert C. Stebbins once dosed Galápagos lava lizards with radiation and tracked them with a Geiger counter?

July 2015