A Red Panda Named Biru Joins Central Park Zoo
Biru, a 1-year-old male red panda, has joined his female companion Amaya at the Central Park Zoo.Red pandas were discovered in 1825, according to the Zoo, 50 years before the giant panda, and there are...
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Name Your Ancestor Now: Vote!
See those 32 names in the bracket below? One of them will be the name of your ancestor. But first, you must vote.Scroll down to the survey, pick your favorite from the pairs of randomized head-to-head...
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Name that Shrew! Round Two.
Round Three voting is now LIVE... vote here! (And thanks to the almost 4,000 fans who voted in Round Two!)You've eliminated sixteen names, now it's time to knock out eight more.Round Two of March...
View ArticleBudget Battles; Leaving Catholicism; Obama's Israel Trip; Franken-Critters
Hear the latest on the budget battles in Washington. Plus: Guardian columnist Emma Gilbey Keller on leaving Catholicism; why the SEIU supports the new New York gun laws; Columbia University professor...
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And then there were two: final round voting to Name Your Ancestor
This is the moment all you placental ancestor lovers have been waiting for: we're down to the final two pop culture monikers for the little hairy beast. Who'll it be? Schrëwdinger (is she our oldest...
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The Common Ancestor Campaign Trail
Desperate for a name, our common ancestor is hitting the streets to get out the vote. Mancestor or Shrëwdinger, who will you choose? Do your ancestral duty, and cast your ballot today!If you can't see...
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Ancestor Hams for Halle
Schrëwdinger was seen playing for the cameras, to the delight of Halle Berry, at the creature's final red-carpet appearance before voting closes today in the Name Your Ancestor contest. Will the common...
View Article[Unedited] Paul Zak with Krista Tippett
In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like House of Cards and Animal Spirits. As...
View ArticlePaul Zak — The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue [remix]
In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like House of Cards and Animal Spirits. As...
View ArticleCulture Gabfest: Curb Appeal Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the revelation that the reality show "House Hunters" is sometimes completely staged, Kathryn Bowers' new book about how humans and...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: Bengal Tiger Giving Birth Edition
Slate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, and June Thomas discuss early previews of the fall TV lineup, including The New Normal, The Mindy Kaling Project, and Animal Practice, plus...
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What's That Clinging To The Towering Wall And Why Doesn't It Fall Off?
Maybe you've seen this, (it's gotten around), but I'm still gobsmacked. Totally amazed. We're in northern Italy looking at the face of the Cingino Dam, and here and there on the vertical stone wall,...
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One Man. One Cat. Multiplied
We start with a man called Mike and a cat called Ella. Two creatures.Nothing odd about them, except that Mike has a beard and Ella is a touch chunky. Otherwise, they could be any cat & guy. Except...
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Animal Loses Head But Remembers Everything
When I first saw this," says cell biologist Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, "it was with total amazement."Robert Krulwich/NPRThis is a worm. It's called a planarian. It's about an inch long, and you'll...
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Thomas Jefferson Needs A Dead Moose Right Now To Defend America
They were so young, the folks who invented America. James Madison, on July 4, 1776, was 25. James Monroe was 18, Alexander Hamilton, 21, Marquis de Lafayette, 18, Aaron Burr, 20, Betsy Ross, 24,...
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What's The Biggest Animal Gathering Ever? (Was Rod Stewart There?)
It's a small moment in a sprawling Shakespeare play. Most people miss it. A nobleman named Mortimer has been locked up by the king, who decrees: Don't anyone say "Mortimer" in my royal presence. That...
View ArticleMargaret Talbot on animal language and cognition
Talbot talks about what Pepperberg's research reveals about animal language and cognition
View ArticleWrong! Deconstructing 5 Famous History Stories
Here are five stories we tell ourselves — five famous history stories that you have heard all your life — that aren't true. Not only are they not true, but historians have known they aren't true, said...
View ArticleBears in NJ Walk Like Humans (And We Have Video Proof)
The internet is obsessed with cute animals. It's even more obsessed with cute animals pretending to be humans - because a sassy, talking bodega cat or a dog in a necktie running a radio station is just...
View ArticleThe Gorilla Shooting Heard Around the World
Many people are outraged that zookeepers at the Cincinnati Zoo shot a gorilla after a toddler fell into its enclosure.Ed Hansen, CEO of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, talks about what...
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