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I’m going to level with all of you—life has been pretty heavy recently. And not just the general, gestures-at-everything brand of heavy, but the up, close, and personal kind of heavy. And, like, multiple layers of it, at that. Maybe I’ll ge...
Everybody Loves An Origin Story
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A Totally New Kind of Wildlife Wonder-Guide
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And we’re going to do...
Air-Mailing Groundhogs, For Science!
“Okay, campers! Rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties, because it’s cold out there!”
Yes, friends, it’s Groundhog Day. Again.
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GRIZZLED Pre-Orders Are 25% Off!
Since I was a pup cutting my teeth blogging about weird stuff on the internet — before all the fun bylines in magazines and newspapers you know by name, before the videos of me sniffing sloth turds and eating termites — I’ve always had a si...
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Writing a book about animals for National Geographic -- SORT OF FUNNY FIELD GUIDES (2025). Science writer with words in Nat Geo, Washington Post, NYT. Project fellow at the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program, National Geographic Explorer.
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