Remember that they were Swiss. That is their expression when they thinking: 1. that is way cool; AND 2. I wonder how Victorinox can put that onto a knife.

My dad, who escaped from Germany in 1938, would not find this graphic funny, but he'd far prefer it to our current reality

structural colors are the best. If you aren't yet familiar with Rick Prum's work on feathers and color, check it out.

I'm confused. What did Colombia gain in terms of concessions from the US?

I spent my first 12 professor-years teaching in a school with a high proportion of students from the bottom quintile. The math/science ones wanted to be doctors not professors because of the perceived economic advantages: more money and less risk. I can't say they were wrong

FYI: I have been studying essential oils for over 30 years. They have, in effect, paid for my cars, house, kids' tuitions, and medical bills from too much sniffing.

I was a green asst. prof at sunysb many years ago. Now im at UVA but happy to revive the project we put on hold when you joined the NYT, "Economic thinking in ecological models."

can you recommend sites/sources for current info on Syria?

They used funnel inkpad funnel cages to test this. the map seemed worse than the compass. /end

and banded small birds as part of their efforts to understand eastern migrants coming up west coast. there seem to be two groups, ones who head up/down the intermountain west and get blown over (few) and ones who have their maps/compasses flipped and aim N/S W when they should head N/S E. /2

very nice pic. yes to b&w warbler. range map is correct, AND sitings are real. those few points on ebird represent a small fraction of total along west coast (based on banding data, more below) but a MUCHMUCHMUCH smaller fraction of total population. Before grad school I worked at PRBO in Bolinas /1