I am frantically preparing for my trip to China. I leave on Friday. I am having to put to bed the Spring/Summer issue of Galapagos News, pen the finishing touches to a chapter I am contributing to an academic volume
Deadline stress
One rule of freelance writing is that you never miss a deadline. Never. I’ll confess that there have been a couple of instances where I’ve asked an editor for the weekend to put the finishing touches on a feature they’d
More social networking for pandas
Though olfaction is probably the most advanced of the panda’s senses, recent work on acoustic communication reveals just how important sounds are for successful social networking in a complex bamboo-based world. A really thorough scrutiny of the acoustic structure of