Don't get fans who are freaking out. Habs outplayed the Lightning last night. They're coming home with the series tied. That's a positive! Friday night is gonna be a great game.

A smoking ban for people born after 2008 may be on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K. Here’s what to know This ban applies to various tobacco products and also seeks to beef up existing laws that restrict the sale and marketing of vapes to children

The UK's House of Commons has approved a ban on selling tobacco products to anyone born after 2008. On a personal note, anyone trying to quit smoking - nicotine lozenges are incredible.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/smok...

NASA’s Artemis II returned from the moon just in time for Earth Day Fresh takes on Apollo’s famous “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” images showed off our planet’s beauty just weeks before Earth Day

Happy Earth Day, everyone! Over at @sciam.bsky.social, we've got fresh content to help you celebrate. My fave is this story from @meghanbartels.bsky.social, about how Artemis II's cosmic views came just in time to remind us why Earth is so special.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

I left Twitter a few years ago after it just got too unbearable. Been ignoring @bsky.app for the most part, but now that I'm at @sciam.bsky.social, I'll be posting my work regularly. Stay tuned for more space and animals and climate and other fun stuff. Oh, and also hockey. #GoHabsGo

Macaque monkeys in Gibraltar are being fed so much junk food by tourists that they're resorting to eating soil and clay to soothe their tummies. Poor little guys. @sciam.bsky.social
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Ex-NASA astronauts form new group to promote U.S. constitutional values More than 100 NASA astronauts have signed on to a non-partisan effort to promote “the principles that have propelled our nation for 250 years”

For my @sciam.bsky.social debut, I got to interview former astronaut Linda Godwin about the new nonpartisan organization Astronauts for America, which says it will work to promote constitutional principles and evidence-based leadership.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...

Tomorrow will sadly be my last day at Insurance Insider. I've loved working here, but an opportunity came up I couldn't say no to. I'm thrilled that Monday will be my first day at @sciam.bsky.social. This is a dream job in so many ways, can't wait to get back to the breaking science news beat.

Some cocaine hippos are just too beautiful for this world.

Why you never forget how to ride a bike The brain stores skills differently than facts, making them harder to forget.

A few weeks ago @popsci.com asked me to look into a question I can’t believe I never thought to ask: why don’t we forget how to ride a bike, even after years of not using one? Turns out, it’s all about how our brain processes and accesses different kinds of memory.

www.popsci.com/science/why-...

What to Know about NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Here's how NASA plans to send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, the first time that anyone would travel this far from Earth since the end of the Apollo program in 1972.

Four astronauts are set to head toward the moon on the first crewed mission there since 1972. Here's what to know about NASA's Artemis II mission.

With spring upon us and playoffs around the corner, you should really revisit Charles Pierce's fantastic, poetic piece on being a Canadiens fan from 2014. They don't make'em like Grantland anymore. grantland.com/features/pas...

The last time the Montreal Canadiens had a 40 goal scorer, I was eight. The year before, they won the Stanley Cup.
It's been a long wait. Maybe not this year, but some time in the next few years, Lord Stanley is coming home. Mark my words. This is a great, entertaining team.

A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish | Defector If you walked down Colorado Boulevard in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles at some point in the past three years, you might have noticed a modest, pueblo-style beige building with “PHOTO” pai...

Mallrats and Vanilla Sky used to be two of my favorite movies, so I was always a big Jason Lee fan. And then one day, poof, he disappeared from movies. Really like this @naterogers.bsky.social profile of him, which gets reeaal weird when the Scientology stuff comes up. defector.com/a-compliment...

Meet Tatu and Loulis—the last of the 'talking' chimpanzees In the 1960s and '70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain, and one question still lingers: Was it worth it?

But it's also about what we owe our closest genetic relatives, and some of the ugly things that can be done in the name of science. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

I'm thrilled that I got to write about what I found for @nationalgeographic.bsky.social. This is a story about Tatu, Loulis and their late friends Washoe, Dar, Moja and Pili, as well as other primates from other related experiments like Noam Chimpsky and Koko the gorilla.

I've spent a good chunk of my spare time diving into Tatu and Loulis' lives and the legacy of the experiments in which they were used as test subjects. Those experiments taught us a lot about chimpanzees, but also about the evolutionary origin of humanity's capacity for communication.

As I finished the book, which ends in the 1990s, I was curious what happened to the chimpanzees. I was extremely surprised to discover that two of them, Tatu and Loulis, are not only still alive, but living in a refuge that's a 25 minute drive from where I grew up in Montreal.

About a year ago, my fiancee handed me a book, saying she thought I'd enjoy it. That book, Next of Kin, was a memoire from Roger Fouts, who was part of a pioneering series of experiments starting in the 1960s in which chimpanzees were taught American Sign Language.

My own story about chimps is hopefully running on Friday. It's about the evolutionary ties that bind us, the origins of human communication and atrocities committed against highly intelligent animals in the name of science. Unbelievably excited for people to read it.

Bonobo's pretend tea party shows capacity for imagination Kanzi, a bonobo with exceptional language skills, took part in a make-believe tea party that demonstrated cognitive abilities never seen before in non-human primates

I spent a good chunk of the past year learning about chimps. They and bonobos are more like us than many humans would like to admit. Love this @newscientist.com story on Kanzi, a bonobo who showed signs of being able to play pretend. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Waiting for Guffman- Chinese Restaurant Scene YouTube video by Kat

In a career filled with hilarious moments, nothing Catherine O’Hara did will ever make me laugh like the Chinese restaurant scene in Waiting For Guffman. She was a treasure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MsqH...

There’s a project I’ve been working on in my spare time for almost a year. It’s about chimpanzees, the evolution of language and what debts we’ve racked up in the name of scientific advancement. It should be coming out very soon and hopefully you all enjoy reading it.

Speaking for all hockey fans watching the Habs-Leafs, what the hell is this German techno from Hell?

I’ve been working on a long form piece about chimpanzees for the past few months. Let me tell you, as amazing as you may think Jane Goodall was, she was even more so.

A Lionel Richie podcast called Talking on the Ceiling. Is that anything?

He's become more meme than man, and that's too bad. Those early Sabbath records are insane, as is everything he did with Randy Rhoads. There will only ever be one Prince of Fucking Darkness.

Just learned via press release that tomorrow is World AI Appreciation Day, and never been more sure we're living in hell.

Blue Sky is cool but we really need a 30-50 feral hogs moment.