Who to watch: Dayne Quist will be the Friday afternoon guy.

On Tuesday night in 1100 Social Sciences, something that has never been done before in the history of UC Davis occurred: a talent show. The Campus Union Center for Student Involvement has officially succeeded where others have failed.

Is it more environmentally friendly to drive or fly to your destination?

THIS WEEK IN DAVIS: Author talk: Elena Mauli Shapiro; La Rondine; Daphne Loves Derby

Men’s golf recap: What goes up must come down.

TODAY: Winter Internship and Career Fair; Challah for Hunger: Baking a Difference; Student Services and Fees Administrative Advisory Committee

Three point five millimeters, or .138 inches, is approximately one-third the size of a pencil eraser. Now image packing 31,000 genes – 200 million base pairs – into that size. The water flea, Daphnia pulex, has managed just that, with a genome larger than any animal ever sequenced, including humans, which have only 23,000 genes.

Senate Bill 8, which addresses the issue of transparency for the University of California (UC), California State University (CSU) and community colleges in California, is still sitting in Senate. Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) updated and reintroduced the bill on Dec. 6.

If you think you’ll be having a crazy Picnic Day, just ask Jim Sochor and Mark Champagne what they will be doing. Sochor and Champagne have been selected as this year’s Picnic Day marshals.

Waiting rooms at the doctor’s office are stressful places; you wait nervously for your name to be called as you flip through the provided reading materials and compulsively check your watch, wishing you could be anywhere else except on the receiving end of a devilishly long needle. Now imagine that the waiting room you are in has 18,000 other patients in it, all of you have chronic liver failure and only a quarter of you get a transplant. That is the hell endured by everyone on the liver transplant list.

After 11 years as a prominent political party in ASUCD, the Leadership, Empowerment, Activism and Determination (LEAD) party seems to be coming to an end.

I’ve got a riddle for you: Who’s got bulgy eyes, leathery skin and a libido on over-drive?