It was 50 years ago that astronaut Ham the Chimp made it into space ahead of Soviet pioneer Yuri Gagarin. To commemorate Ham’s historic space flight and subsequent life, I have a short piece in the G2 section of today’s
Is Hollywood listening in on my brain?
For the past few years, I’ve occasionally had this feeling that someone in Hollywood must be watching over me, or at least listening in on the strange ideas that go chunking through my head. The first I knew of this
Panda news update
It’s been quite a week for pandas. “We are still struggling to fully understand the panda’s ecological requirements.” This is pretty much how the latest panda paper (out this week in Biology Letters) kicks off. After 30 years of research