It is "Ms. Adventure," and that is an intentional pun, because most of my field adventures involve ridiculous things like falling in a sewer toads , we have toads that live in the flowing spring area of our study site.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. This is a toad fish making some sounds.
It is "Ms. Adventure," and that is an intentional pun, because most of my field adventures involve ridiculous things like falling in a sewer Some of these toads occur, they occur sporadically throughout the stream area.
There's a frog in the foreground, or it might be a toad . Frogs and toads were symbols of greed in medieval Europe. And there are all kinds of other things going on.
And one of those fish is a remarkable toadfish. I guess they're called toadfish because they have-- well they look kind of like a toad . They have these little bumps on their eyes and they've got an ugly face like a toad .
at the people who had broken through the glass ceiling in a comparative way with you know their white counterparts as well as minorities who had toad somewhere in middle management uh and that's what we attempt to do uh in this uh study now um you
So they wanted very tame covers. They wanted covers that had a little toadstool and a gnome sitting on them and butterflies. And we wanted covers that threatened to bite the faces off the readers.
After a few moments, I realized what I was listening to. It was the death song of the toadfishes. I sat there for a while staring out at the container ships, listening to this melancholy, monotonous death song, feeling, I suppose, not unlike the Grinch staring down on Whoville
Well, I get asked that question a lot. And I'm not a toady.
Unfortunately, the quality of schools is really uneven. But if some kids are reading "Frog and Toad " and other kids are reading "Charlotte's Web," that's a sign.
In any case, I wanted to give a whole chapter to the little fish that people use for bait in our area. And one of those fish is a remarkable toadfish. I guess they're called toadfish because they have-- well they look kind of like a toad .
They have these little bumps on their eyes and they've got an ugly face like a toad . But they have this other salient characteristic that toads and frogs have, which is that they sing. And this singing fish is called the plainfin midshipman.
I see a couple of nods in the crowd. Actually only one-- that is the smoked venom of the Sonoran desert toad . Somebody figured that out, right?
the chat bots don't provide us. If you want to think about the effects of these sophantic uh AIs, maybe a good analogy is billionaires or royalty or world leaders who are surrounded by toadies and yesmen. There's a wonderful book called careless people that's about uh tech billionaires and the picture it portrays is these are people I think almost all all of them men who are surrounded by individuals who tell them all the time how smart they are and how everything they say is
So right now we're in this narrow margin. Of course you would wanna be born right now. So they're not doing very well because most things like frogs and amphibians and toads need both land and water to survive. So you can't just protect land, you also have to
I guess they're called toadfish because they have-- well they look kind of like a toad . They have these little bumps on their eyes and they've got an ugly face like a toad . But they have this other salient characteristic that toads and frogs have, which is that they sing.
Her lap is full of gold. There's a frog in the foreground, or it might be a toad . Frogs and toads were symbols of greed in medieval Europe.
I try to take a different look at things. This little thing is called, "The death song of the toadfishes." "I'm not sure why, but leopard sharks--" leopard sharks are very common mud-dwelling, bottom-dwelling sand shark type of thing that lives out in the Bay.
And those mascots could be turtles or weasels. Cats, dogs, and toads were very prevalent. As you can see here, this is a 17th century witch who is feeding blood to her diabolical toads .
Cliff: All right, so, with any luck, we've got the Q and A mic right here if you have any questions. I want to kick it off with just one quick one here in, the debate on geoengineering is reallyintriguing and I like a lot of the ideas that you presented. How do we prevent this from becoming like introducing the cane toad to Australia, that we're gonna need like another, another fix or a point of no return where we're like committed to like this track or another track?
need like another, another fix or a point of no return where we're like committed to like this track or another track? Jeff: Well, that's a great point. A lot of people bring up the cane toad analogy. So, obviously have a bad track record of trying to intervene in a helpful way with, to solve
changing something you don't understand, blah blah blah, you turn it off and it stops. So, there's an element of reversibility to any of these technologies that, I would say, should be at least explored to see what the real risks are. So, that is a big issue and the problem with the cane toad thing is that is wasn't reversible. You let a few of them out and all of a sudden you've got a big, big problem. And I think that we've learned a lot from this kind of thing. And humbleness is a key virtue in this whole notion that
But that's on the growth side of Brave Wilderness. I grew up catching slimy, muddy creatures in my backyard in Ohio, so digging up earthworms and toads and frogs and turtles.
They're like breathe, and you'll sit and you bend your knees to sit. OK. And then we got out there, and we sat down and mine was like a little toadstool. Yeah. It was like-- I was literally on the ground like in a basket.
Cats, dogs, and toads were very prevalent. As you can see here, this is a 17th century witch who is feeding blood to her diabolical toads . This is a woman who has her diabolical familiars with her.
I like fat, buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, gluttonous, toady.