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Jul 1
The Impact of Yellowstone’s Wolves May Be Overrated
They probably didn’t change the path of the river.
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Jun 20
Can Drinking Rain Water Make You Sick?
Despite childhood myths, it’s not sterile at all
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Musings on Buffalo Fish, and Other Uses of “Buffalo”
The fish named by an eccentric French genius, and…
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Jun 6
For Millions of Years, Earth Was Dominated by a Single Vertebrate Genus
It’s not humans. How a…
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How Starfish Can (And Do) Survive with No Brain
Just like my buddy Kevin, but with more arms
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Dec 21, 2023
Do Birds Orgasm?
The science, and knowledge gaps, of bird sex.
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Dec 18, 2023
We Keep Launching Cat Extinctions
Why conservationists ran over 160 eradications of cats, and counting
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Oct 26, 2023
The Risks of Putting Shit On Your Crops
A new paper probes the risks of this classic fertilizer
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Oct 9, 2023
We’ve Trained a New Insect to Eat Plastics
The world of biorecycling may be poised to take off.
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Sep 21, 2023
Japan’s Problem, and Controversial Solution, to Radioactive Water
Why some types of radioactive water…
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