In May the journal ALTEX Proceedings published two papers from my presentations at the 8th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Montreal, 2011. One was an overview of the various types of humane teaching methods, with numerous pictures, and of the published educational studies examining their efficacy. The other discussed the human benefits and animal impacts resulting from invasive animal research, the UK Bateson Review of Research Using Non-Human Primates, and suggested policy reforms likely to result in a more accurate weighing of the human benefits and animal costs of invasive animal research.