Holiday Gifts for Science Nerds

It’s time for the ProfessorTreeFrog First-Ever Holiday Gift Guide!!! 1) This line of plush toys is seriously cute and seriously awesome. They’re called “Evolvems“, and are zip-inside-out plushies demonstrating major evolutionary milestones. They have the Coelacanth-to-Ichthyostega transition, as well as Dimetrodon-Cynognathus, Yinlong-Styracosaurus, and Pakicetus-Squalodon!!! 2) Also a line of plush toys, “Foodchain Friends” is for [...]

Extreme Ice Survey: Documenting Climate Change

If you ever wanted direct evidence of climate change, watch this video! Photographer James Balog has spent the past few years installing 26 time-lapse cameras on 15 glaciers globally, monitoring the retreat of these massive reservoirs of ice. This body of work most likely represents the most thorough and dramatic photographic examination of glacier retreat [...]