By and large, no. Wherever possible, a wild panda will (very sensibly) steer well clear of humans. But they can be, as a story that appeared in the Los Angeles Times last week demonstrates. This reported that Bai Yun, a
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
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
