I don’t know what the special occasion is, but today’s NY Times Science section has a star-studded lineup:
Natalie Angier, Nicolas Wade, Carl Zimmer, and Sean Carroll all have fascinating pieces up in today’s Times.
The topic:
This issue of Science Times is devoted to our many bonds with animals, and also to the distance between us and them. No other animal makes operas or nuclear weapons. How did we become so different? What made us human?
The Finch and Pea 