Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #24: Why did Victorian Women LOVE Seaweed?
Why did women in the mid- to late 1800s, including Queen Victoria, LOVE seaweed so much? Boots, scrapbooks, and old boys clubs.
Sarah L. Hawthorn
SFFH writer / Haligonian / She/They / THE DROWNED COAST (@Sourcebooks Fall 2025) / Maritime Cryptid / Hazel stan account 🐈 / Rep: @lmpnk with @JillGrinbergLit
News
The Frog Pond #23: Let Mushrooms Take the Wheel and ✨ BOOK NEWS ✨
In this month's Frog Pond: Mushrooms drive tiny robots and a fancy new book title is dredged up from the depths.
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #22: Weird Bathypelagic Fish Roundup
At least 20 new species were found while exploring the Nazca Ridge, as well as a rare variety of cute, weird, and fin-walking fish of the sea floor.
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #21: Saunas Save Frogs
Frogs are in danger around the world from a fungus infection. One research team's found an innovative solution for an Australian frog species using miniature saunas.
News
The Frog Pond #20: I GOT A BOOK DEAL!
My speculative historical novel, THE DROWNED COAST will be published by Sourcebooks in Fall 2025!
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #19: Perplexing Pandas
What do pandas have in common with anteaters, gorillas, and geese? And why would a bear eat so much bamboo?
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #18: How many planets are in the Solar System?
Most planetary classification has been on a vibes-based system for centuries.
Strange Elements
The Frog Pond #17: Riddle of the Sphinx
It's not just people that have left and right "handedness" - so does, well, everything in biology!
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #16: Satellite Killer
Move over Bermuda Triangle, there's a bigger Atlantic anomaly and it's killing satellites.
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #15: A long shot to the Moon (and getting longer)
We won't have solar eclipses in 600 million years and more Moon facts you really don't need to worry about during your finite existence.
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #14: Shady Baleen (Sarah's Version)
A 2018 study (that I found through a Tumblr post) found that humpback whales have developed a new foraging strategy to catch their prey!
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #13: Ancient nuclear reactors (+cute cat photos enclosed!)
Or, I'm entranced by nuclear energy and our new cat!