Biological Thinking

Today I watched a leopard pace in its tiny cage.  Male leopards are used to 30 square miles of home range, and this one was lucky to have 30...

Turnips are ridiculously under-appreciated.  They are the easiest vegetable to grow.  They are marvelously delicious.  They produce anti-can...

I just finished a completely fascinating book about what scientists think about the human brain.  It's called Incognito: The Secret Live...

I saw two birds yesterday.  One was standing on the pavement next to Lake Michigan, and the other was chopped into bits in a pan in my kitch...

I promise every post in Chicago won't be about the apes at the zoo, but there will probably be a few more after this one too! This is ...

The Lincoln Park Zoo is on my daily walking route now.  It's free and open to the public, and I can power walk right through or linger a...

It's getting close to Halloween, and the scariest thing for most APES students is the nitrogen cycle, so why don't we tackle that to...