The National Zoo is one of only five zoos in the country with giant pandas, but the zoo is a bus ride and a Metro stop away. Normally, people who just want a quick panda fix, or don’t like pretending that they’re interested in gazelles would be out of luck. Fortunately, the National Zoo website has the Panda Cam, a continuous feed of those beasts are up to.

As of lunchtime Monday, Tai Shan was pressing his panda face into a rock, asleep. But then a weird mist floated by for a while. Fortunately, the panda seemed unharmed.

The pandas cost a bundle, so the least we can do is get our money’s worth by monitoring them constantly.

Posted by Will Sommer

A new Georgetown seminar will investigate the murder of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded in Pakistan in 2002. Called the Pearl Project, it will be available to graduate students in Georgetown’s journalism program, as well as undergrad English majors in the college.

It’s an interesting idea for a class, and if it succeeds in helping Pearl’s family find answers it’s an even better idea. Maybe it’ll be as compelling in the unsolved true crime genre as the unexpectedly excellent Zodiac. But don’t we already know what happened?

Posted by Will Sommer

Austin touched on a few good articles about our victories below, but he neglected to mention the excellent work of our own Sports Editor Tony Francavilla—see his takes on the Sweet Sixteen and the Elite Eight. Also, Clare Malone, our features editor, has been contributing to Sports Illustrated.com—here is her re-working of a recent Voice feature on the Hoyas’ male cheerleader and her contribution to SI’s Campus Report.

Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor