• Why must the Monkey subject poor Timmy to the horrors of his variegated fluids? The gods themselves, they do not know.

• In celebration of his new memoir, the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist, eric kandel, recounts many formative episodes from his life in science: The Search for Memory.

• Science Musings by Chet Raymo: That Cottage of Darkness.

• The Space Review: Orbital vacationers will want to go outside. Good point.

• Scalping in the French and Indian war.

• The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes their language one of the strangest in the world: Living without Numbers or Time.

• Monkeys drink more alcohol when housed alone, and some like to end a long day in the lab with a boozy cocktail, according to a new analysis. Drunk Monkeys Mirror People. And here I thought it was the other way around.