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Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events.

As always, if there is an event you know about that’s not on our calendar contact us, and we’ll add your event on and possibly add it to the weekly round up.

Date: Oct. 26, 2011

Event: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Care

When: Friday, Nov. 18, 7:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.

Where: McCombs School of Business

Registration: For UT faculty and Ph.D. students.

Free, but seating is limited. Visit Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Healthcare for more information and to register.

Pesticides and pollutants are related to a 450 percent increase in the risk of spina bifida and anencephaly in rural China, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and Peking University.

Jay Leno will make a guest appearance Nov. 13 when the painted cows that have made their home in downtown Austin are auctioned off for charity.

Image courtesy of The Electric Company Seaholm District Music & Art Fair
Saturday, September 18
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Noon | Free

One ludicrous rumor that was evidently tossed around at last night's Texas Tribune launch party claimed that Kayne West had up and bought the entire top floor of the Austonian.

Sounds unlikely.

Win tix to this!

The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has established two new graduate nurse practitioner programs to help alleviate the critical shortage of acute care pediatric and neonatal nurses.

The school is partnering with Dell Children's Hospital and Pediatrix Medical Group to teach and train more students in these areas.

Dell Children's Hospital is providing [...]

I want to follow up on this post by M1EK on the Austin Children's Museum planned move from downtown to Mueller.
I'm personally disappointed with the move.

 My wife has taken my son to ACM several times, usually with other moms, and grabbed lunch or gelato afterward or ridden the 'Dillo, which he loves.

 I live south, so we probably won't go to Mueller very often.

With the opening of Milago, the Shore, and 360 over the last year or two, a few more kids have moved into downtown condos with their parents.

This is great news for downtown diversity, given that -- amazingly enough -- almost no kids lived downtown prior to the recent wave of development.