SQUID

Now this article is a bit bittersweet for me. I LOVE squid. I grew up watching my very Italian father tearing apart raw squid in our sink, battering it with delicious spices and fryin' it up for my eagerly awaiting mouth... Calamari is a welcomed food in our home. Simultaneously I felt a pang of guilt and sadness seeing the picture of this beautiful, enormous squid getting slaughtered aboard a fishing vessel. At least he was almost dead upon arrival, and was taken to a research institute providing education and such. Colossal beings do exist and should remain in existence, not filtered via nets, from decimated forests, and pillaging land (buffalo). I wish they were just let to 'be'.

Chimps: Making Tools

Seems to be a reappearing theme in our Biology class: the glorious chimpanzee. I love it, I'm glad for the education because clearly they are our ancestors and have exemplified evolution on so many levels. This is further illustrated in the 'making of tools' as discussed in our article. These sorts of studies continue to support the genetic connection of chimps and human species, I am therefore not entirely surprised that this article suggests humans picked up these skills via chimps. Can we all say evolutionary development? We had to learn somewhere, from someone, something at some time... so why not the chimpanzee? I'm down.