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Can An Old Parrot Learn New Tricks?

Indigenous knowledge and western science unite to save the reef

V.A. Looks to End Ban on Sex Reassignment Surgery for Transgender Veterans

How An Icon of Evolution Turned to the Dark Side

Boosting Social Skills in Autistic Kids With Drama

Stanford researchers ‘stunned’ by stem cell experiment that helped stroke patient walk

Digging Up The Roots Of Modern Waste In Victorian-Era Rubbish

Ancient Roman writing tablets discovered at London building site

The importance of a one-handed saxophone

Brightest laser blows up water in cinematic and scientific first

Double dog domestication: Were there two first Fidos?

Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians

Researchers release hundreds of endangered toads in Wyoming

Teen Birthrates Reach Another Record Low, CDC Says

Gay and lesbian sex soaring in US as society becomes more 'individualistic', researchers say

Japan: 7-year-old boy found after week's disappearance

Girl Scouts: Still Mostly White

Bright Lights, Big Hassles For Children In The Hospital

Louvre moving some artwork as floodwaters rise in Paris

How I convinced the world you can be raped by your date

For unaccompanied immigrant children seeking asylum in the U.S., where they apply seems to make a world of difference.

A UN flowchart for refugees reveals how ridiculously complicated it is to apply to asylum

Syrian refugees who want to return home are stuck in Germany

The Surging Cost of Basic Needs

Puerto Rico’s U.S. Rescue Won’t Come Soon Enough to Halt Default

5 decades after China's Cultural Revolution, a few say sorry

Feds at odds over charges in Eric Garner case

Prisoner tells of 'mental torture' in secret Guantanamo camp

Amid a Growing Movement to Close Rikers, One Prisoner Approaches Six Years Without Trial

Rich Defendants’ Request to Judges: Lock Me Up in a Gilded Cage

In Alabama, 100,000 people told not to drink water due to contamination

Study reveals harm to fish from tiny bit of plastic pollution

As fighting surges again in Ukraine, an environmental disaster looms

Report: Terror attacks down for first time in three years

Meet the man saving Yazidi slaves from ISIS

The Iranian Fingerprints on Iraq’s Fallujah Plan

Islamic State faces major assaults on two fronts in Iraq, Syria

Took us a while, but we finally finished The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

You know, I didn't realize this when we started the book (hadn't read it since high school), but the author really didn't predict cell phones. The characters are constantly looking for pay phones, using pay phones, asking futilely if they can use the phone. And it was published in 1994!

So what are we reading next? The girls want another fantasy or sci-fi book, so my shortlist is:

The Moorchild

Face Like Glass (we never finished it first time around, not sure why)

Quest for a Maid (for my money, one of the best older middle grade fantasy books written during my childhood, but lots of Scottish accents)

Ambassador

Zahrah, the Windseeker

Un Lun Dun (long)

Signing Ana up for a Met program

I realize they switched their form so now Gender is listed as (Optional) and you have three choices - male, female, and a text box that you can fill in or leave blank. Good job, Met!