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.
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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.
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.
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.
The Frog Pond #20: I GOT A BOOK DEAL!
My speculative historical novel, THE DROWNED COAST will be published by Sourcebooks in Fall 2025!
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?
The Frog Pond #18: How many planets are in the Solar System?
Most planetary classification has been on a vibes-based system for centuries.
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!
The Frog Pond #16: Satellite Killer
Move over Bermuda Triangle, there's a bigger Atlantic anomaly and it's killing satellites.
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.
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!
The Frog Pond #13: Ancient nuclear reactors (+cute cat photos enclosed!)
Or, I'm entranced by nuclear energy and our new cat!
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #12: I'm Not Like Other Shrimps (I'm enormous)
Or, Anomalocaris deserves more love.
Climate Chaos
The Frog Pond #11: Saving the Night Sky
Or, spoiler: I GOT AN AGENT.
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #10: A Medley of Mayhem
Or, 3 fun facts about poison, fennel and moonquakes.
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #9: Fairy Rings (and Circles)
Or, the facts behind a piece of fungus fairy folklore.
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #8: Rain of Terror
Or, the day meat fell on Kentucky - or did it?
Gnarly Nature
The Frog Pond #7: I was not prepared for how cool fungi are
Or, the fungus amongus is humongous.
Debunking Tweets
The Frog Pond #6: Liquid Trees
Or, lies about trees and truths about algae.
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #5: Vulture Bees
Or, the rotting meat and misinformation of vulture bees
Weird Places
The Frog Pond #4: Subterranean Forest
Or, forests dark and deep (within the earth)
Strange Elements
The Frog Pond #3: All about aluminum
Or, a love letter to aluminum (atomic #13, #1 in my heart).
Climate Chaos
The Frog Pond #2: The Blob
Or, I am both amazed and horrified by The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge and its Blob.
Freaky Animals
The Frog Pond #1: Everything becomes crab
or, uncertain waters and why everybody wants to be a crab.