I am starting to plan my trip to China in earnest. I had pencilled it in for the end of February before someone kindly pointed out to me that this is the Chinese New Year and not the most propitious
More on ornithologist cliques
In thinking about the origins of the World Wildlife Fund in 1961, I pondered whether there was something to be said about the ornithological background of most of the founding members of the charity. On an excellent website dedicated to
Podcasting pandas for Nature
On Monday this week, I popped into Nature’s offices in London to talk about the panda genome paper for the podcast. I talk about enzymes for carnivores and herbivores, gut microbes and the interesting umami receptor. When podcast presenter Adam