Emily Davidow

Microtraveling in bromeliad pools with supertongued salamanders and nurturing crabs. Oh, I could happily read Olivia Judson’s Wild Side column all day long. (If you like too, don’t miss her book, Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation… continuing with that theme, you might also enjoy Natalie Angier’s recent column on Spitzers of other speciess and Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno, in which she plays a lusty spider, fly and more.)

Amputees can feel relief from phantom limb pain just by watching someone else rub their hands together. Mirror neurons in the brain fire up when a person performs an intentional action, and also when they observe someone else performing the same action.