Saddest news of the day: Panda accidentally crushes cub in China

I think it's very clever though how they change the subject subtly from a sad mother Panda waking to find her cub gone to what other than Panda porn:

"A zoo handler noticed the cub, which weighed only about three ounces, had fallen away motionless from her mother's nipple, it said. Zoo staff took the cub away while Ya Ya was still asleep and an autopsy showed that its heart, liver and other organs had been crushed.

"The report said that Ya Ya searched around for her cub after waking up, then appeared depressed, laying listlessly in her zoo enclosure.
The report did not say if zoo staff would try to reunite the mother with her other cub.

"Ya Ya was mated with 11-year-old Ling Ling from Wolong in April. The pandas watched a mating video before breeding."

Scientists identify brain's concept control core

"Scientists believe they may have finally identified the part of the brain that deals with the critical issue of matching words to everyday objects.

"Using brain scans of people suffering from Semantic Dementia -- the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease in people under 65 -- they have found that the front end of the temporal lobe seems to be crucial to conceptual application.

"Previously the part of the brain dealing with concepts was thought to be Wernicke's area, which is further back on the temporal lobe, but scans and experiments showed degradation of the front end seemed to be key.

"One woman accurately drew a duck when a photograph was in front of her, but within a minute of the image being removed she was able to sketch only a four-legged creature with chicken and cat-type features."

So, this is the woman who did this cat-like graffiti:

Okay & I just love this picture...but what exactly is "Qua-qua"? It reminds me of when I was 8 & some adult told me that ducks don't say "Quack" they say "Mack." Who the heck cares? Certainly not this duck, he speaks his own language, thank you very much:

And something to offset the Panda cub story:

In other more personal news, the jabbery ever-weather Nut head on the other side of my cube wall got written up yesterday for talking too loudly. Apparently, this somehow "blows her mind" but my day is still made.