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
How do zoos choose?
Which of these macaws do you find the most attractive? There’s an interesting paper in PLoSOne entitled “Being Attractive Brings Advantages” in which a team of scientists from the Czech Republic and Germany provide some rather nice evidence that supports
Panda mug
IMG_6011 Originally uploaded by wayofthepanda This is a mug I was given by Wang Dajun at the Center for Nature and Society at Peking University. I still treasure it even though I no longer use it. A plasticy film on