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Cigarette packs are about to get a whole lot more jarring in Canada. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, accompanied by the widower and daughter of anti-smoking crusader Barb Tarbox, visited a school in Ottawa on Tuesday to announce that tobacco companies will have to start selling revamped cigarette packages by next June. Twelve new images will cover 75 per cent of the outside panel of cigarette packages and eight new health messages will appear on the inside in full colour in an attempt to turn off smokers. A picture of a dying Barb Tarbox, a lifelong smoker who died of lung cancer in 2003 at age 42, will be among the new images on the outside panels. "This is one story of many in Canada, and the family agreed to help and work with us to get their message to Canadians, gucci outlet and I thank them for their courage and their leadership in trying to reach out to young people," the health minister said Tuesday. Speaking directly to the Grade 8 students on hand for the announcement, Pat Tarbox said the picture of his late wife is still shocking for their family to see and "it freaks out a lot people." That's the point, he said. "We're hoping her image will have an impact on a lot of youth and that's really what Barb wanted to do," said Tarbox, whose late wife documented her illness and spoke to schools across the country in the months before her death as part of an anti-smoking campaign. "It's a stark reality of what cancer looks like. If you think smoking is cool, 20 years down the road, you don't look so cool when you're lying in a hospital bed deteriorating," added Tarbox. Their daughter, Mackenzie, 18, who was nine years old when her mother died and is now a first-year university student, said the image of her mother represents "just what it means to have cancer. I just think that you guys should just never start and if you have, stop. Could you imagine telling your nine-year old daughter that you might not be there for Christmas?' " Currently, health warnings cover 50 per cent of the outside panel of cigarette packages, but Health Canada research has consistently shown that smokers have dulled to the old graphics, first introduced in 2001. As part of the new rules, tobacco companies will also have to include four toxic-emission messages for the side panel, along with a national toll-free quit line. Rob Cunningham, a senior policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society, was on hand to laud the government for showing "global leadership." He added: "This is a blockbuster in terms of public health because it costs the government virtually nothing to do but it does have an impact in the short and long term." Initially, the government planned to have the old packs out of the marketplace by next March, but a delay in publishing the final regulations means the industry has another three months to transition. Aglukkaq committed to the new regulations last December after she signalled in the fall that the file was on hold so the federal government could focus on combating contraband cigarettes. A month before Aglukkaq made this commitment, Tarbox lamented what he saw as foot-dragging on the part of the federal government after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was considering using Barb's image on cigarette packages sold in the U.S. Since then, the U.S. plan to cover the top half, front and back, of cigarette packaging with graphic warnings has been put on hold by a lawsuit filed by tobacco companies. The companies allege the mandated health warnings violate their free speech, given that cigarettes are a legal product but the warnings urge prospective customers not to buy them.

A Holocaust survivor has given a Montreal museum a jacket she was forced to wear while imprisoned, over six decades ago, at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Imy (Irma) Nemenoff-Gellert donated the rare item on Monday, her 97th birthday, in the hope it might serve as a reminder of that dark period in history. “It was time,” Nemenoff-Gellert said of her decision to part with the item. “It's good for people who come to visit the museum to know what happened during the Holocaust — youngsters, especially.” The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre hailed the item as a rare find because, juicy couture after the Holocaust, most prisoners destroyed the clothing that was forced upon them. The item most closely resembles a thick shirt, but she refers to it as her jacket. It is striped grey and blue, with dark buttons, has no pockets and it carries a tag marked U-609 on the front — the U signifying that she was Hungarian. She decided to donate the jacket nearly a year ago, but it took months before she and her family could bring themselves to drop it off. It was a possession she turned to when she wanted to rekindle memories — as painful as they might be. Nemenoff-Gellert and her first husband were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 in German Nazi-occupied Poland. He was immediately killed while she was selected to work. Nemenoff-Gellert has told relatives that she believes she survived for two reasons. First, she spoke several languages and was used as a translator at the camp. Also, she had no children at the time. She told relatives that young mothers were quickly killed off. Nemenoff-Gellert was moved to Mauthausen, a camp in Austria, from where she was liberated. Nemenoff-Gellert then worked for the U.S. government and the United Nations before coming to Canada in 1946. Her daughter, Michelle Nemenoff, said her mother kept the article of clothing all this time for deeply personal reasons. The shirt was the only proof that she'd been in the camp. “She was (among) the last deportation of Hungarians in 1944 and they were in such a rush that they didn't tattoo any of their prisoners, so this was tangible proof of this horrific event,” Nemenoff said. “Not to the world, but to herself.” The shirt also served as a constant reminder that life can always be harder. “Every time she got blue she'd look at it and she'd know that things had been worse,” Nemenoff said. Nemenoff-Gellert has lived most of her post-war life in Canada in Montreal, after initially arriving in Toronto under a program to bring domestic workers here. It was Nemenoff-Gellert who hand-picked the Montreal institution to receive the jacket after the family agreed that donating it was the best thing to do. “It's an awesome responsibility (to hold on to) — it has an essence of its own,” said the younger Nemenoff. “One of my daughters said it's always been hidden and it would have so much more value in a museum.” Julie Guinard, curator at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, says the article of clothing is a rare find because most survivors destroyed their prison garb. “I was really shocked because that's not something you usually see,” Guinard said.

The luck of the Irish has not always smiled upon Jason O'Mara. The Dublin-born actor was previously primed for stardom in dramas In Justice (2006) and Life on Mars (2008) but both shows were cancelled following brief prime-time runs. The ruggedly handsome O'Mara is more likely in for the long haul on Fox's Terra Nova, which comes to television with the weighty imprimatur of Steven Spielberg as executive producer. Set in the distant future, the premise casts O'Mara as a Chicago cop shipped back to prehistoric times with his family in tow. Dinosaurs abound, of course. Longchamp Outlet O'Mara spoke to us from Los Angeles last week. Would you classify Terra Nova as a sci-fi series? It's not just for a niche audience. This isn't Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek. Although I think sci-fi fans will get a lot out of it, this has that all-inclusive look and feel of a true Steven Spielberg production. People go to see E.T. for the cinematic experience, not just because it's about a boy's relationship with an alien who comes down from space. What were the physical challenges to shooting the first season in Australia? We're outside for a lot of this and the Australian outback can be quite unforgiving. We had to contend with extreme weather. There were days when we were literally up to our knees in mud. There are a lot of snakes. I don't know how poisonous it was, but I had a toad crawl across my boots last week. We're really out there in the rain forest and exposed to the elements, for better or worse. You play a Chicago police detective transported back to prehistoric times. Is he still a cop in the new colony? His primary goal is to protect his family, but whether he likes it or not, he's been made the sheriff in this frontier town. His family becomes the audience's eyes and ears and they get involved in the intrigue taking place, politically and socially. There are lots of mysteries and story twists to look forward to. How difficult is acting opposite dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures? Technically the green-screen acting can be difficult. It's an Australian visual-effects assistant with a cardboard dinosaur head on the end of a stick, while he's wearing shorts and sandals running around a field. You're supposed to look intimidated, but he's a very sweet guy. All you want to do is burst into fits of laughter. Dinosaurs aside, there's a strong ecological bent to Terra Nova. Is the show designed to be a cautionary tale? There are a lot of moral questions being asked. Because we're building this place from the ground up, we're able to ask these allegorical, sociological and philosophical questions about the world we're living in now and where we're going. It's really about second chances, and if we were given a second chance as a race, would we make the same mistakes? That was the thing that hooked me onto it.

A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a ton of space debris may have landed. The US space agency said it believes the debris ended up in the Pacific Ocean, but the precise time of the bus-sized satellite's re-entry and the location of its debris field have not been determined. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, ended 20 years in orbit with a suicidal plunge into the atmosphere sometime between 11:23pm on Friday and 1:09am EDT on Saturday, NASA said. Advertisement: juicy couture outlet Story continues below The satellite would have been torn apart during the fiery re-entry, but about 26 pieces, the largest of which was estimated to have weighed 150 kg, likely survived the fall, officials said. As it fell to Earth, UARS passed from the east coast of Africa over the Indian Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean, across northern Canada and the northern Atlantic Ocean to a point over West Africa. Most of the transit was over water, with some flight over northern Canada and West Africa, NASA said. "Because we don't know where the re-entry point actually was, we don't know where the debris field might be," said Nicholas Johnson, chief orbital debris scientist at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We may never know." Stretching 35 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, UARS was among the largest spacecraft to plummet uncontrollably through the atmosphere, although it is a slim cousin to NASA's 68,000 kilogram Skylab station, which crashed to Earth in 1979. Russia's last space station, the 122,000 kilogram Mir, crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2001, but it was a guided descent. NASA now plans for the controlled re-entry of large spacecraft, but it did not when UARS was designed. The 5897 kg satellite was dispatched into orbit by a space shuttle crew in 1991 to study ozone and other chemicals in Earth's atmosphere. It completed its mission in 2005 and has been slowly losing altitude ever since. With most of the planet covered in water and vast uninhabited deserts and other land directly beneath the satellite's flight path, the chance that someone would be hit by falling debris was 1-in-3,200, NASA said. "The risk to public safety is very remote," it said. The satellite flew over most of the planet, traveling between 57 degrees north and 57 degrees south of the equator. UARS was one of about 20,000 pieces of space debris in orbit around Earth. Something the size of UARS falls back into the atmosphere about once a year.

Night four of POP Montreal saw various heavyweight headliners playing simultaneously, forcing concertgoers to make some tough decisions. Chromeo, Andrew W.K., Laura Marling and Yuck were all must-see acts, but until they invent cloning machines, music festivals will just be that difficult. Grunge-pop rockers Yuck won the draw, taking their musical cues from '90s garage-rock acts left and right. The much-buzzed-about UK four-piece are timid and laid-back onstage, but what they lack in personable energy they made up for by creating the perfect slacker rock for this decade. Bringing back the best of the '90s, Yuck is often reminiscent of Superchunk and Pavement. "Thank you, we're Yuck, as you can tell from the banner," guitarist Max Bloom said, pointing out the hand-painted sign hanging behind them. Bloom, bassist Mariko Doi and singer Daniel Bloomberg also donned head-to-toe denim, probably an unplanned decision. While Bloom and Doi maintained a nonchalant posture, sacs louis vuitton Bloomberg's awkward hunch as he sings songs like 'Milkshake' and 'The Wall' was quite the caricature to watch. Amid wailing guitars and distortion to spare, Bloomberg pushes a melody across that's both simple yet effectively infectious. Listen to the hype: This band is onto something. Earlier that day, the first annual Pop vs. Jock charity basketball game took place. Organized with the help of the Arcade Fire, a team of musicians -- Win and Will Butler of the Arcade Fire, most notably, as well as Graham Van Pelt, aka Miracle Fortress, and Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend -- faced off against the basketball team of McGill University to raise money for the non-profit organization DJ Sports Club. As we all know, Win Butler is a force both athletically and musically. (What can't he do?). With the help of additional players such as NBA veteran Matt Bonner, Team Pop took home the trophy with a close win of 106-100. ("As you can see, we have some jocks on our team ... but that's cool; we really wanted to win," Butler jokingly told the crowd.) Butler played confidently but also showed his humorous side, trying to distract his opponents during free throws by dancing and getting the audience to boo. The lightheartedness of the players on the court was nice to see, as we don't often see it onstage. Music throughout the game was provided by Win's wife, Regine Chassagne, and DJ Kid Koala, and the halftime show was presented by another Arcade Fire member, Richard Reed Parry. With a slight delay before Parry's show, Butler took the chance to rile up the audience with some karaoke, but after he failed to find someone to sing the entirety of Queen's 'We Will Rock You,' he resorted to performing it himself. Grabbing his brother from the bench, he also offered an impromptu Christmas medley that the Butler boys apparently did as kids. Needless to say, fans got a good laugh out of it. Parry's project DRONES/Revelations premiered as a bicycle symphony, with riders and rollerbladers circling the court, some holding boomboxes, others rocking strapped-on amps. For about 20 minutes, the cyclists and skaters layered dark, ambient sounds. With the exception of one incident where a rollerblader accidentally kicked over the wagon of amps she was pulling, Parry's project was a success, bringing the strangest halftime show a sports event will ever witness.

Aboriginal Australians may be descendants of the very first people to leave Africa more than 60,000 years ago, DNA evidence suggests. The analysis of hair collected from an aboriginal man in southwestern Australia in 1923 supports the theory that there were two separate waves of migration from Africa, the place where humans first evolved, and that most Europeans and Asians came from the second migration. The research was published this week in Science. The researchers picked the 88-year-old hair sample, collected by British anthropologist Alfred Haddon in southwestern Australia, because they wanted to find someone who was of purely aboriginal descent, said Rasmus Nielsen, Longchamp Outlet co-author of the study in an interview with Quirks & Quarks set to air on CBC Radio on Saturday. "It turns out that if you take hair and just leave it on a desk for a hundred years, there's still enough DNA preserved in the hair to actually sequence the genome," added Nielsen, an evolutionary genomics researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The sequencing and comparison with the genomes of people from other populations around the world found far more similarity between Europeans and Asians and Asians and Australians, suggesting they had come from two separate waves of migration. Scientists estimate the first wave took place about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago and the second took place 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. Fossil evidence had suggested that modern humans were in Australia 50,000 years ago, Nielsen said, but there has been a lot of debate about whether modern-day aboriginals are descended from that original group or from a later migration. He added that the new DNA evidence means "it's possible that the modern aboriginal Australians are in fact descendents of these very first individuals that came to Australia." It's likely the early migrants travelled out from the Middle East, through India and Asia to Australia, Nielsen said. The researchers are now interested in seeing if they can find evidence in Asia of that first group of migrants, who are believed to have been largely displaced by the second wave of migrants.

Mike Clattenburg has left the trailer park. The Cole Harbour, N.S., native was eager to stray way outside his comfort zone for his first feature film, "Afghan Luke." He wanted to eschew the trademark mockumentary shooting style he developed on "Trailer Park Boys" and tell a story that was still funny, but far more serious, and on a much bigger scale. The director found his project in a script about a veteran war correspondent named Luke Benning (Nick Stahl), who returns to Afghanistan to uncover a scandal involving Canadian soldiers. "I wanted something that was difficult, challenging and more so dramatic than comedic," burberry outlet Clattenburg said during an interview at the recent Toronto International Film Festival. "I was looking for apples and oranges, something different than 'Trailer Park Boys' — that screwball, zany comedy which I really enjoyed. "An entirely new world to delve into and learn about." The first challenge was figuring out how to convincingly shoot the film in Canada, since going to Afghanistan was obviously not an option. Clattenburg found a rough and sandy area in the Interior of British Columbia that made for a remarkably realistic-looking set. And the region's harsh conditions also helped throw the actors into their roles and keep them in character. "The location was gold for the opportunity for us to just immerse in this world and in these characters," explained Vik Sahay, who plays an ambitious rival journalist who's fighting for the same scoop. "Very little was done set-dressing wise, that is what it looks like: hail one day, boiling hot the next day, wind, sand. All of it was unbelievably conducive to leaving the rest of the world behind and getting into the dynamic of the characters. "It pushes you deeper into that rabbit hole." Stephen Lobo, who plays an Afghan fixer who guides foreign journalists and acts as a translator, agreed the conditions on set were tough to take but a huge benefit overall. "Sometimes as an actor part of the job is having to create and make the audience believe your environment — the extreme example would be using blue screen technology — but with this there was none of that work, it was a real treat," Lobo said. "We just believed it, that we were there, and we felt it." Lobo and Sahay praised Clattenburg's approach to directing, including his willingness to let actors improvise. "There's no bad idea, he was game for anything," said Lobo. "I didn't stray off the script that much but to know that you can allows for a different kind of listening and you've really got to be alive." Added Sahay: "It creates a kind of alchemy, a chemistry and an electricity on set and in a scene when you're actually listening and responding and not worrying about lines." "Afghan Luke" opens in Toronto on Friday. Clattenburg's next project is a big-screen comedy/drama called "The Guys Who Move Furniture," starring Will Sasso, Victor Garber and Charles Murphy. "It was inspired by when I was moving a couple of times and saw how hard these guys work. I met some really nice fellas who do one of the toughest jobs in the world — it's really difficult and nobody wants to do it — so that interested me," he said. "It's got some heart and soul. It's about a guy who doesn't necessarily believe in himself and kind of learns to believe in himself."

Multiple sclerosis patients enrolled in a study were found to have a genetic abnormality that leads to reduce brain levels of a specific neurosteroid called allopregnanolone, according to an international research team. Previous studies have shown that neurosteroids play a key role in some brain functions as well as repair. The discovery, published in the journal Brain, could lead to new treatments for MS, which is characterized by inflammation and damage to myelin, the protective covering of nerve cells. As the disease progresses, it can affect vision, hearing, memory and movement. Preliminary work looks promising. The researchers, led by Chris Power of the University of Alberta, report decreased brain inflammation in MS mice given additional levels of allopregnanolone. Earlier in the day, Longchamp Outlet before Cameron’s arrival, interim Liberal leader Bob Rae rejected the notion that an austerity program such as Britain’s is the only key to success. “I think there’s a growing consensus that austerity on its own is not going to solve this problem,” said Rae, who stressed that fiscal discipline, economic growth, and “healthy revenues” are all important to an economy. “The problem that some of the European economies are facing, particularly at the moment Greece, is that the size of their debt is so big that it’s very hard to know what austerity measures would actually get them to a point of being able to be in balance.” NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said it won’t help Harper if he uses Cameron’s austerity campaign as proof for why his own government should make major cuts. “Canadians understand the importance of public services,” said Dewar. “I think Mr. Harper shouldn’t be using Mr. Cameron as a foil to, you know, do his work. And I don’t think that would be accountable, responsible. And I think people would see through it.” Harper also lauded Cameron for how Britain showed fundamental conviction in recent months as it worked with other NATO allies, such as Canada, to mount a military mission to help Libyan rebels oust that country’s dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. Harper quoted former British prime minister Harold Macmillan who once said that “the state is made for man, and not man for the state.” “We also believe that when we help others to be free, it is our own liberty that we also secure,” said Harper. “Those ancient rights of democracy and the rule of law that our two countries share that are the common aspiration of millions of people around the world. They are, clearly, the aspiration of Libyans themselves. “Our mutual hope is that they will someday enjoy them in all their fullness.”

In the circle of life, certain plot points go 'round and 'round, and Fox's brand-new "Terra Nova" is the latest incarnation of the action drama about a family stranded in a strange world. It even opens with a similar premise to 1965's "Lost in Space" series, in which a couple and their three children are sent from an overpopulated earth to establish a new human colony on a distant planet. But that was then, and this is now, and "Terra Nova" leaves ye olde cheap-set series in the dust with production values that make each episode look cinematic. And not just like "Jurassic Park," although Steven Spielberg is co-executive producing the Fox show, which features dinos, father-son conflicts and a soup?on of preachiness. "Terra Nova" stakes out its own universe, burberry outlet and the fact that we have been on such journeys before may enhance the experience of this one. It's like getting on a roller coaster and waiting as it climbs to the top of that first hill again. The series begins in 2149, when Earth's environment is so polluted that it's permanent midnight outside apart from a vile orange glow in the toxic cloud above. In the small apartment of ex-cop Jim Shannon (Jason O'Mara), there's another problem. He and his wife have two teenagers but they also have a 3-year-old daughter—an illegal offspring in a society where the earth is deemed full and breeding above replacement rate is banned. The punishment stemming from this violation will be harsh. The only bright spot is that at some point—you knew this was coming, right?—there was a "fracture in the fabric of time and space" and this opened a sparkly portal through which selected people are transported back 85 million years. Terra Nova, as the new colony is called, is laid out in the middle of a prehistoric jungle wilderness. There's a huge stockade around the settlement and this is where the memory of "Jurassic Park" is useful, because that stockade can only mean one, T-Rexish, thing. But inside it seems nice. The Shannons' new house looks like an eco-bungalow you'd find at an expensive fat-farm in Vanuatu. As for the colonists, Mrs. Elisabeth Shannon (Shelley Conn) was recruited as a top-notch physician. But the main qualification for residency would seem to be youthful good looks. Within minutes of arrival, both of the teenage Shannons have met attractive members of the opposite sex. And soon some of them are drinking moonshine at a still they've erected outside the stockade. Until they are interrupted by a roaring pack of bloodthirsty dinosaurs with chicken cockades on their heads and lethal blades on their tails. The "slashers," as these creatures are called, are only one among many scary things running wild outside the colony. Some are even human, former colonists known as Sixers, who broke away to establish a rival settlement. Who these people are, and why they were sent to Terra Nova will be one of the great mysteries of the series. The man who worries most about the Sixers is Cmdr. Nathaniel Taylor (Stephen Lang), who was Terra Nova's first settler and is now its leading defender. Not only from cold-blooded prehistoric killers. Unlike the brutish commander he played in "Avatar," Mr. Lang is a good guy here, dedicated to giving greedy, despoiling mankind a second chance to get things right. Or is he, too, caught in a web of deceit that may prove deadlier than all the raptors in the world?

Showered with paper airplanes, garlanded by admiring Nobel laureates, some of the world's quirkiest scientists will be honoured at a sellout ceremony at Harvard University next week. The 21st annual Ig Nobel Prizes, conferred by the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), have become one of the most coveted prizes in science. Bringing neither personal riches nor offers of future funding, the Ig Nobels do bestow a heavy dollop of cool on their winners who, collectively, seem to put the fizz in physics and the giggles in gigabytes. Recent winners include a U.K.-Mexico collaboration for perfecting a method to collect whale snot using a remote-controlled helicopter; Dutch duo Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest for discovering that some forms of asthma can be treated with a roller-coaster ride; and a team from Otago University, air yeezy 2011 New Zealand, for demonstrating that, on icy footpaths in winter, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes. In 2009, Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University won for revealing that cows with names give more milk than cows that are nameless. Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil triumphed in 2006 for inventing an electro-mechanical teenager repellent. And in 2005, an award went to Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University (again) for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust that was being shown selected highlights of Star Wars. If it all sounds like a lot of geeks getting together to let their long hair down, whip off their white coats and, over a glass of champagne, sort out some sticky issues (like Edward Cussler and Brian Gettelfinger, University of Minnesota, winners for the experiment: Can people swim faster in syrup or in water?), you wouldn't be far wrong. Organizer and inventor Marc Abrahams explains his motivation: "I became the editor of a science magazine [The Journal of Irreproducible Results], and suddenly was meeting lots of people who had done wonderfully loopy things - but it was clear that most of them would never earn any sort of recognition for what they'd done. So I decided to help out a bit. Thus was born the first Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in 1991." That first year saw Jacques Benveniste, controversial French immunologist, honoured for demonstrating (to his own satisfaction, if no one else's) the mooted homeopathic principle that water is able to "remember" events long after all trace of them has vanished. As the awards have grown, it is clear that what they do (more than honouring semi-obscure theoreticians) is to celebrate the humour intrinsic in much of science and many of its practitioners. Abrahams recognizes this connection: "What scientists do is, by its nature, frustrating. They are trying to understand things that no one else has managed to understand. Much of the time they will fail at this, but occasionally they will succeed, and maybe change the world. If you know that your job inevitably involves living through lots of failures, it helps to have a sense of humour about yourself. "When a scientist makes a really good, unexpected discovery, everyone else's first reaction is going to be laughter: how can this discovery be true? And then they see that yes, it's true, and pretty soon everyone thinks it's ordinary. It's much better that people laugh at a new discovery, and think about it, than attack it from the off." This, perhaps, is the true charm of the awards: They make the public smile - and then think. Richard Stephens, senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Keele University, made the podium last year for proving that swearing relieves pain. Dr. Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol (winner, 2010, for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats) is also grateful. "Yes, I'm proud of my Ig Nobel. Humour is a valuable way of popularizing science." And he points out: "Many of the prizes are awarded for serious science. My own work on fellatio in fruit bats led to feedback from members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about female mate-choice strategies, and whether animals experience the equivalence of 'pleasure' in humans.