Sunday, December 9, 2007

The Zoo Story

The St. Petersburg Times has been running a nine-part special on the life and times of animals at Lowry Park Zoo -- check it out at

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/webspecials07/special_reports/zoo/

The series' excellence speaks for itself if you bother to check it out.

Chapter Five appeared in this morning's paper, complete with a profile of the zoo's politically dashing and privately enigmatic CEO, Lex Salisbury. Almost at random, the reporter notes that Salisbury wrote his master's thesis on the topic of "heat exchange rates in parrots from New Zealand."

My reaction: For goodness' sake. A master's thesis topic -- written on something that could actually be studied and known.

1 comment:

Randomscrub said...

That's what Master's Theses are for... says the engineer.