Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Had to edit this post to make the links actually work....

An interesting story that has been bouncing around the news recently. They found an Ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, in the swamps of Arkansas last year, and kept it secret until now.
I'm just posting one link here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622633
but there are other things about this on NPR's website.
Check out:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
which talks about many different birds, and has pictures/recordings of sounds, and is generally pretty neat.
On another, less happy note, I also heard a piece about smoking and how its deleterious effects on your health take years to go away.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622813