Stories of Your Wild Life

Genomics of the Ratopolis

Posted by Guest Contributor
/ May 15, 2013 / Leave a comment

Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in June. Jason Munshi-South, currently an assistant professor of biology at Baruch College, studies the evolution and ecology of vertebrates in New York City. Every...
Tiny Tourists Invade the Big City

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/ May 14, 2013 / 1 Comment

Today we have a guest post from Mary Jane Epps, post-doc and chief beetle wrangler at Your Wild Life. Recently, Mary Jane has begun investigating the associations between beetles and humans, particularly within human dwellings, including the remains of homes in ancient Egypt. Back in March I accompanied our urban...
The Unresolved Mysteries of the Mold in Your House

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/ May 7, 2013 / 1 Comment

Today we have another in our series of guest posts by participants in the upcoming meeting on indoor evolution at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in June. Rachel Adams is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley who studies the dispersal of fungal spores into homes. In...
Carpe Cicada!

Posted by Holly
/ May 7, 2013 / 1 Comment

As a kid, I never could sleep well on Christmas Eve. The anticipation of Santa’s visit (and the pile of wrapped presents he would leave behind) always had me so giddy that I could only doze off for a few minutes (or maybe an hour or so) at a time....
How teaching high school prepared me for NYC

Posted by Lea Shell
/ May 6, 2013 / Leave a comment

In a former life I was a math teacher at a public high school in rural Mississippi. One day I put up a math problem about how to calculate the probability that you’d have to wait for a certain amount of time at a crosswalk. Now, there was always push-back...