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A jailbird, in this case, a juvenile Humboldt penguin that escaped from the Tokyo Sea Life Park and was last seen swimming in the mouth of the Old Edogawa River which runs into Tokyo Bay. Zoo keepers don’t know how the 24 inch, flightless bird managed to escape the enclosure it shared with 134 other Humboldt penguins; the exhibit is surrounded by a sheer, 4 foot rock wall and a 6 foot fence. Zoo officials have been scouring the...

Alumnus Kirk Goldsberry (PhD 2007) recently presented a research paper at the 2012 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston which was one of two finalists for top paper amongst over 100 submissions and was featured in the New York Times blog “Off the Dribble.” The conference goal is to provide a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) and students to discuss the increasing role of...

Professor Tommy Dickey recently sent the editor a photo of one of his prized Great Pyrenean Mountain Dogs “handing out” an academic award to one of his Geography 3a students: “Attached is a photograph of Bingjie Yang receiving the second Theodore Nansen Academic Award from one of my three Great Pyrenees, Theodore Nansen (“Teddy”) who was named for polar explorer, oceanographer, and Nobel Prize winner...