“What’s the difference between a frog, a chicken, a mouse and a human? Not as much as you’d think, according to an analysis of the first sequenced amphibian genome.”
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A new U.N. report says that one in three plant and animal species face extinction given the rate of human production and consumption.
For me, this might be the original strange map. When I was a kid, I had the Spitting Image book that contained this map. I spent hours (well… whole quarters of hours) […]
Did this far-out story of lizards below LA father the conspiracy theory of world-ruling reptilians?
The first project Brian Henson worked on with his father, Muppets creator Jim Henson, was a scene in “The Great Muppet Caper” where Kermit and Miss Piggy are riding bicycles […]
Suspended animation, where an animal’s metabolism is slowed to seeming death, is no longer the stuff of Star Trek, says scientist Mark Roth who is pioneering research into it.
Toads anticipate the timing and impact of their landings in the same way that humans do, according to a new paper called “Do toads have a jump on how far they hop…”
Toads have “taken over” almost all of the modern world after an ancestral mutation allowed the creatures to thrive under drier conditions that their amphibian peers.
Online dating companies are getting more technical in their match-making abilities including matching couples based on genetic markers of the immune systems.
What impact will Disney’s first black princess have on kids? The Independent’s Paul McKenzie asks why even watching the advert has got his daughter so excited.
The female cane toad can inflate herself to twice her size to ward off advances from smaller males vying to mate with her, according to Australian biologists.
Some critics admire Disney’s new entrepreneurial black princess and her interracial relationship with the frog prince.
If there’s anyone who understands the travails of being different, it’s Kermit the Frog, who shared with the world the difficulties of being green. Now Kermit’s Muppet colleagues are teaching […]
The president of LeapFrog Investments on the benefits of his strategic partnership with CGI.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments explains his new company, which is bringing insurance to the poor.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments talks about the changing role of media throughout the world.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments talks about the right ways to promote democracy worldwide.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments on why he disagrees with Peter Singer on global poverty.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments discusses the latest trends in the vast movement known as social entrepreneurship.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments shows how the principles of microfinance can apply to the insurance industry.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments recommends new ways for structuring international bodies to include all stakeholders.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments talks problems and solutions to the ongoing AIDS crisis in his native South Africa.
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The president of LeapFrog Investments says that large companies are crucial for solving some of the world’s biggest problems.
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Human hearing picks up only a limited range of frequencies, and that range diminishes as we age and our ears deteriorate—just think of the high-frequency cellphone rings that high school […]
10 Billion Beats is a non-commercial Global Intention Event that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention around the world. Starting in Central Kansas, it will follow the sun through the time zones at 7:00 PM on Sept. 18, 2009. (Sept. 19 as it crosses the dateline)
It involved frogs, tadpoles, growth hormones, and a hard lesson on outgrowing the resources at hand.
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