Here is what I am reading today: teaching an elephant to point?? “”By showing that African elephants spontaneously understand human pointing, without any training to do so, we have shown that the ability to understand pointing is not uniquely human but has also evolved in a lineage of animal 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…
Here’s what I am reading today: replacing a phantom limb “After 31-year-old Zac Vawter lost part of his leg in a motorcycle accident, a team of doctors set out to create a new kind of prosthetic limb: one whose motions he could manipulate with his mind, by “flexing” a foot Read more…
(Something a little special for my birthday last month!) Here is what we are reading today: preventing HIV from spreading “The work was led by Dr Caroline Goujon and Professor Mike Malim at the Department of Infectious Diseases, King’s College London. Professor Malim said: “This is an extremely exciting Read more…
Visiting with our daughter Karen. I had a chance to see how she teaches Social Media at the University of Louisville, see the 8th ranked Cardinals win at football and actually place some bets on the horses at Churchill downs! Here is what I am reading today: sleep less, buy Read more…