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The CSViewer for Analysts application provides access to a comprehensive database collected from the Cayo Santiago rhesus monkey colony with 11000 subjects over the past 86 years. Assorted data selection, visualization and analytical features are added to its new version 1.2, and results from mining newly collected osteological measures revealed new skeletal and dental development models. To expose the intended knowledge model of the CS colony to public audiences, especially to science classes at colleges and schools, a CSViewer for Education edition is planned. Supporting queries in plain English is considered beneficial to help students to seek for answers. This paper presents initial experiments with the Claude language model. A dental checkup dataset is used to and queries in plain English are used to explore the dataset through Claude API and the results were integrated with CSViewer to use its charting features to display dental development trend of the CS monkey population. Further development based on natural language interactions enabling utilization of the generative AI features are to be continued. 

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope and the SEQUOIA 3 mm focal plane array, we have searched for molecular line emission from two atomic clouds associated with the Fermi Bubble of the Milky Way. Neither¹²CO nor¹³CO J=1–0 emission is detected from the HIcloud, MW-C20.¹²CO J=1–0 emission is detected from MW-C21 that is distributed within 11 clumps with most of the CO luminosity coming from a single clump. However, we find no¹³CO emission to a 3σbrightness temperature limit of 0.3 K. Using this limit andRADEXnon-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) excitation models, we derive H₂column density upper limits of (0.4–3)×10²¹cm⁻²for a set of physical conditions and a H₂to¹²CO abundance ratio of 10⁴. Model CO-to-H₂conversion factors are derived for each set of physical conditions. We find the maximum value is 1.6×10²⁰cm⁻²/(K km s⁻¹). Increasing [H₂/¹²CO] to 10⁵to account for photodissociation and cosmic ray ionization increases the column density and X(CO) upper limits by a factor of 10. Applying these X(CO) limits to the CO luminosities, the upper limit on the total molecular mass in MW-C21 is 132±2 M_⊙, corresponding to <27% of the neutral gas mass. For the three clumps that are fully resolved, lower limits to the virial ratios are 288±32, 68±28, and 157±39, which suggest that these structures are bound by external pressure to remain dynamically stable over the entrainment time of 2×10⁶years or are being disrupted by shear and expansion over the clump crossing times of 3–8×10⁵years. The observations presented in this study add to the growing census of cold gas entrained within the Galactic Center wind.