About this episode

The episode discusses various whimsical topics including tyrants, undersea creatures, and poetry.

Tyrants! Little blue guy! Undersea Muppets! That's not your dog, Tom. Acorn! Black frogs, blue dogs. Invisible book talk. Frog sounds? Poetry corner. Observatory antics! Colorado?! Caedmon's Hymn. Unsustainable tyrants: https://www.noemamag.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-petty-tyrants/ Little blue guy: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/ https://youtu.be/174YABPY238?si=zEmsxw41iHfkhy1U S. Snuffleupagus: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-real-mr-snuffleupagus-meet-the-oceans-strangest-new-fish-species/ Acorn video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17DD0pCtsqCBpbFSa5pimUYUN3TWBLiA_/view Black frogs: https://www.iflscience.com/chernobyl-frogs-have-changed-color-and-it-could-be-whats-helped-them-survive-73048 Caedmon's Hymn: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hidden-copy-of-the-oldest-known-poem-in-the-english-language-leaves-researchers-speechless/ Frogs and their calls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Sc78-TOFs See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Topics covered

• tyrants
• undersea creatures
• Muppets
• poetry
• frog sounds
• observatory antics
• color change in animals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Business Goose Media, Scientific American, IFLScience, YouTube

Books & works: Caedmon's Hymn

Places: Colorado, Galapagos Islands

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