In what I am told is the season of giving, why not give to a couple of field biologists and artists who want to go chase a rare quail in an interesting collaborative field project? My friend Jennifer Gee has teamed up with colleague Jennifer Calkins to launch this project, and they are trying a novel way to finance their work - directly from us, via kickstarter! Their fundraising goal is modest, just shy of $5K, and with less than two days to go in the campaign, they are just about $500 shy of the target. Will you pitch in and help? Of course, if you do, and they raise enough to fund their expedition - don't be surprised if one of these days I hit you again with something similar for one of my own students' projects! :-)