We have lived in our house for 35 years. During that time, our front and back gardens have undergone a number of iterations, making room for children’s play, adjusting for droughts and the inevitable skyrocketing water rates that accompany them, and backfilling when plants didn’t make it. Our front yard Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: the DOG speaks “Dogs first surprised cognition researchers when scientists showed that the animals readily follow a human’s pointing finger or gaze to find food. Both wolves, dogs’ closest relative, and chimpanzees, our near-cousin, have trouble doing this. Now, scientists have raised the dogs-only Read more…
Here’s what we are reading today: bumblebees are surprising “The last thing you’d expect to see out your airplane window is a bumblebee cruising by. But a new study suggests that the insects might be capable of such high-altitude jaunts. Researchers trapped six male bumblebees (pictured) living at an altitude Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: good for the brain! (video gaming!) “Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills. This has been shown in a new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: invasion of the Nostril TICKS! “Tony Goldberg had been back from Uganda for only about a day when he felt a distressingly familiar itch in his nose. A veterinary epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he had just spent a few weeks Read more…