From the cute to the horrifying

It's another Monday, which means it's time for another list of links to my articles from last week. It was an "Extinction Countdown" heavy week, with four new articles at Scientific American:

Slaughtered for Ivory: 65 Percent of Forest Elephants Killed Since 2002

Lion Tamarins versus Climate Change

Manumea Found: Strange Bird Seen Breeding for the First Time in a Decade

Sunday Species Snapshot: Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush


This week also brought my latest monthly career article for IEEE-USA's Today's Engineer:

Get the Most Out of Professional Development Opportunities


And finally, here are a few tech/green articles for Mother Nature Network:

Fish face: Reconstruction of ancient fossil reveals the origins of the face

DARPA wants to build a better search engine and fight crime

Amazing new laser could diagnose disease and detect greenhouse gases


I'm still working on a ton of stuff for publication in the coming weeks and months. Stay tuned for links as they go live!