Well, She Married Well!

Surprise! This isn't a feminist rant.

Actually, it's an accolade for my cousin's husband, Tim, who's just awesome in a number of ways. My cousin is brilliant and awesome herself, of course.

But I think it's especially neat that Tim got his own Yahoo! news bullet and was published in Nature . . . again.

My favorite quote from the article:

To put the trained starlings' grammar skills in perspective, Gentner said they don't match up to either of his sons, ages 2 and 9 months.

Here's a 2004 picture of Ellie with her second cousin the grammarian, and parts of their smartie-pants daddies.