On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler, talk about dog tears of joy, the Australian rabbit invasion, variegated snailfish antifreeze, kelp forest otters to the rescue, endangered trees, the California Air Resources Board, the Marble Freedom Trust, Saudi groundwater hijacking in Arizona, improving photosynthesis, meth-addicted dogs running wild, smuggling reptiles, poor, broke, busted, disgusted, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Mike, Mahler, and I talk about hybrid species, Tasmanian Tigers, a potentially fatal herpes virus, k-leather, illegal wildlife products, Freya the walrus, taxing the Trump Organization, Fix libel, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, Gravity Payments, two overbearing imbeciles, and so on.
At a press conference in Hamburg, Germany on September 16, 2001, my favorite German avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was asked whether the characters Michael and Lucifer from a cycle of operas he wrote were for him “merely some figures out of a common cultural history” or instead “material appearances.” In other words, were they fake or were they real? The composer replied, “I pray daily to Michael, but not to…
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about spider dreams, sponge sneezes, hot female turtles, mad honey, a beluga swimming to Paris, restored electrical activity in human retinas, euthanasia for criminals, Emmett Till, climate change diseases, the Webb Space Telescope color wheel, electricity from perspiration, point-and-shoot cameras, stick shifts, Cracker Barrel sausage, and so on.
On this week’s episode, Nathan, Mike, and Mahler talk about scent appeal, pig organs, mouse embryos, smothering seaweed, vanishing snow, managed retreat, Big Oil’s big profits, space debris pollution, QAnon candidates, rainwater PFAS, the Cartwheel galaxy, and so on.
It’s not nice to speak ill of the dead. But, he’s dead. So let’s get on with it. Everyone loves Vin Scully, especially now. After he died Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at the age of 94, corporate and social media have tripped over themselves posting ever more glowing tributes. “The Dodgers lost their voice when Vin Scully died,” said Los Angeles Times. “Angelenos lost a family member.” “Baseball’s merry poet…
