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\"nearly 140 scientific papers about endangered snails have been published so far this year\"
\"Amorphophallus titanum has been in bloom all across the country during the past year, which is pretty uncharacteristic for a flower that can take up to 15 years to show its flower. Stranger still, botanists don\'t understand why.\"
\"The resurrected photos merged with modern animation are almost completely nonsensical in subject matter and yet perfect in their execution, the more random the better. \"
\"Something Daly couldn\'t answer was how the frogs came to be poisonous in the first place. It had been long known that South American frogs were toxic enough for indigenous tribes to smear blow-darts with frog secretions when hunting. But, in captivity, the same frogs produced almost no toxins at all.\"
\"A few months ago, I read a fascinating article on the Stuff You Missed in History Class blog. After receiving innumerable complaints about their podcast which boiled down to either \"you talk about women too much\" or \"you only talk about women\", Tracy Wilson went back over the episodes they\'d produced and put together graphs showing the breakdown between episodes focused on men, women, and ungendered events. You can see the results here. But, unsurprisingly, (spoiler alert!) they showed that stories about women made up roughly 30% of their content.\"
Call me Carol Brady.
