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What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
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- 1 How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas
- 2 Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan
- 3 The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys
- 4 Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
- 5 Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
- 6 The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
- 7 Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
- 8 Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
- 9 How do birds learn to sing? - Partha P. Mitra
- 10 The weird and wonderful metamorphosis of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer
- 11 Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
- 12 A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra
- 13 Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna
- 14 The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
- 15 The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
- 16 The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
- 17 Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
- 18 How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
- 19 What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
- 20 Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
- 21 Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
- 22 Why are there so many types of apples? - Theresa Doud
- 23 How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
- 24 How do animals see in the dark? - Anna Stöckl
- 25 What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans
- 26 How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis
- 27 How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
- 28 The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos
- 29 Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban
- 30 Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington
- 31 Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes
- 32 How do schools of fish swim in harmony? - Nathan S. Jacobs
- 33 Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans
- 34 Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz
- 35 The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson
- 36 When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard
- 37 How do we know what color dinosaurs were? - Len Bloch
- 38 The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač
- 39 Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop
- 40 How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
- 41 What happens when continents collide? - Juan D. Carrillo
- 42 How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef
- 43 How plants tell time - Dasha Savage
- 44 Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
- 45 The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat
- 46 How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen
- 47 Where did Earth’s water come from? - Zachary Metz
- 48 How parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode
- 49 How we think complex cells evolved - Adam Jacobson
- 50 How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz
- 51 The truth about bats - Amy Wray
- 52 The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
- 53 Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
- 54 Where do genes come from? - Carl Zimmer
- 55 Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
- 56 How do tornadoes form? - James Spann
- 57 What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro
- 58 The coelacanth: A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood
- 59 Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon
- 60 A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman
- 61 How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
- 62 Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz
- 63 How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
- 64 The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler
- 65 The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher
- 66 How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler
- 67 Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington
- 68 From the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot
- 69 Poison vs. venom: What's the difference? - Rose Eveleth
- 70 The Pangaea Pop-up - Michael Molina
- 71 How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
- 72 The popularity, plight and poop of penguins - Dyan deNapoli
- 73 The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth
- 74 Bird migration, a perilous journey - Alyssa Klavans
- 75 Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth
- 76 The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman
- 77 What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman
- 78 Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid and sandpaper - Mary Koga
- 79 Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
- 80 Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
- 81 The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker
- 82 Tracking grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
- 83 Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan
- 84 Pruney fingers: A gripping story - Mark Changizi
- 85 The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna
- 86 How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer
- 87 Making sense of how life fits together - Bobbi Seleski
- 88 How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
- 89 The simple story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
- 90 Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
- 91 Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full
- 92 How life came to land - Tierney Thys
- 93 Five fingers of evolution - Paul Andersen
- 94 The Cockroach Beatbox
- 95 Evolution in a Big City
- 96 Symbiosis: A surprising tale of species cooperation - David Gonzales
- 97 Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
- 98 How a fly flies - Michael Dickinson
- 99 The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
- 100 Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
- 101 What is dust made of? - Michael Marder
- 102 Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin
- 103 What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared? - Dan Kwartler
- 104 History through the eyes of a chicken - Chris A. Kniesly
- 105 Why can't some birds fly? - Gillian Gibb
- 106 Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? - Elizabeth Cox
- 107 Inside the killer whale matriarchy - Darren Croft
- 108 Can animals be deceptive? - Eldridge Adams
- 109 The sexual deception of orchids - Anne Gaskett
- 110 How tall can a tree grow? - Valentin Hammoudi
- 111 A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe
- 112 Why are earthquakes so hard to predict? - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
- 113 The wild world of carnivorous plants - Kenny Coogan
- 114 Turbulence: One of the great unsolved mysteries of physics - Tomás Chor
- 115 The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone
- 116 How do crystals work? - Graham Baird
- 117 The secret language of trees - Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard
- 118 The mysterious origins of life on Earth - Luka Seamus Wright
- 119 Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: The life of a fire ant queen - Walter R. Tschinkel
- 120 Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen - Kenny Coogan
- 121 The bug that poops candy - George Zaidan
- 122 No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke
- 123 The big-beaked, rock-munching fish that protect coral reefs - Mike Gil
- 124 Can the ocean run out of oxygen? - Kate Slabosky
- 125 The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman
- 126 Who owns the "wilderness"? - Elyse Cox
- 127 The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky
- 128 The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
- 129 Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall
