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“Herp Talk” with local amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald

By Mark | June 23, 2019

Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted here about both tadpoles and frogs that my son and I had found in Riverside Park. Well, as a result of these posts, I’ve come into contact with Eastern Michigan University amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald, who, I guess, felt professionally obligated to write in and correct me, informing […]

Posted in Environment, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ambystoma, amphibian biology, amphibian fungus, amphibian sex, amphibians, Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation, Anura, Arlo, Arnold Lobel, Australia, biology, Bufonidae, bullfrog, Cane toad, cats, Central America, chickens, children's literature, chytrid, chytridiomycosis, critters, cryptozoology, cultural impact study, Diplocaulus, earth science, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, environmental impact study, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tactics, extinction, faking death, faking one's death, flying frogs, Frog and Toad, frog-eating, frogamander, frogs, frozen frogs, gay characters in children's literature, Georgia, Gerobatrachus, Goro Furuta, habitat management, habitat preservation, HCI, herpetology, Heterodon platyrhinos, historic archeology, Historic Conservation and Interpretation, hognose snakes, Huron River, hybrid salamanders, immigration interview, invasive species, Karen Warkentin, Katy Greenwald, Kelly's Island, landscape architecture, Lepospondyls, Loveland Frog, Madagascar, Mark's frog pond, mass extinction, metamorphosis, nontraditional sex, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Paleocene, pit viper, Population Viability Analysis, predators, Ranidae, relocating wetlands, reproduction, reptiles, restoring wetlands, Rick Shine, ringneck snake, Rutherford Pool, salamanders, Science Friday, sentinel species, Skyline high school, smeet, snakes, South America, sperm-stealing, tadpoles, Temnospondyls, toads, treefrogs, twofold cost of males, unisexual, University of Michigan natural history museum, vernal pool, warts, wetlands, Ypsi immigration interview, zoospores | 27 Comments

When all that’s left is fear and hate

By Mark | August 23, 2018

Since news broke a few days ago that the President’s former personal attorney had pled guilty to numerous felonies, naming the President himself as a co-conspirator, things haven’t been looking so good for the Trump administration. And Donald Trump has responded just like the organized crime boss that we know him to be, talking openly […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Africa, Africanisation of the plane, Afriforum, anti-immigrant, apartheid, arming teachers, Barack Obama, Betsy DeVos, Civil War, co-conspirator, conspiracy theory, David Duke, Donald Trump, flipping, FOX News, guns in schools, hope, incels, Ku Klux Klan, Mike Peinovich, Mike Pompeo, Mollie Tibbetts, MS-13, murder, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Omarosa Manigault Newman, optimism, Patrick Gaspard, race baiting, race war, racial animus, racism, rats, Richard Nixon, Rudy Giuliani, South Africa, tax cuts, tax reform, turning state's evidence, unindicted co-conspirator, white genocide, white nationalism | 24 Comments

On dead birds, big feet

By Mark | January 5, 2011

I’d set out to write a really comprehensive piece about the thousands of dead birds and other animals that have been dying in heavy concentrations these past few days, but I can’t seem to do it. Maybe, deep down inside, I’m scared. Maybe I’m afraid that I’ll come to the conclusion that our planet has […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Environment, Pop Culture | Also tagged 1977, Beverly Hillbillies, bigfoot, Bigfoot and Wildboy, birds, CHiPs, conspiracy theories, Cthulhu, dead birds, Journey to a Spacecraft, Max Baer, ominous signs, portents of endtimes, Ray Young, Sid and Marty Krofft | 11 Comments

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