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• Karen Telleen-Lawton: From Birds to Whales, Counting Season Is Beginning Again

• Sleep with Dogs, Wake with Fishes

  Last-ditch reflections on big oil, loud college...

• Have You Kicked Your Inner Poodle Today?

  Poodle vents spleen on Big Oil, Water Guardians...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Things to Consider Before Helping Son with Down Payment

• Turning Whine into Water

  The Poodle dissects drought-related gab fests....

• How ’bout Them Dodger Dogs?

  The Dodgers are defeated, gay marriage wins, an...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Willets on Wilderness

• To a Distant, Vengeful Dog

  Fowling Your Own Nest...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Symposium at Museum of Natural History Traces Human Origins

• Blood-Bloated Tics Nesting in a Dog’s Ear

  PHRICKING, PHRACKING, PHOOEY...

• Beneath the Valley of the Dogs

  There’s Good News and Bad News on the state of ...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: ‘Slow Down Santa Barbara’ for Whales and Cleaner Air

• The Barking of the Neighbor’s Dogs

  Poodle gets whiplash contemplating the onset of...

• Reflections in a Dog's Eye

  Diablo Canyon's seismic safety assurances h...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: What’s Happening to Religion?

• I Bark, Therefore I Yam

  Guns or butter? Why what happens in Isla Vista ...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Why Ocean Acidification Matters to Us

• Dog Daze and Dazed Dogs

  David Lack and the Bank Crisis: Who Was Screwin...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: High School Reunion a Turning Point for Bullied Classmate

• Throw a Shoe at That Dog

  Poodle tells how WWI gave rise to the Good Land...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Factors to Consider Before Lending Money to Friends, Family

• Free Your Hounds from the Pound

  Poodle cuts baby in half on race, class, and di...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Saving for College with 529 Plan a Worthy Investment

• Temper Tantrum of the Early-Morning Dog

  The Dog restates the obvious in the aftermath o...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Let’s Get Our Heads Out of the Sand on Climate Change Effects

• Good Man, Happy Dog

  Poodle chews on Measure M and comes down with f...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: California Brown Pelicans Not Out of ‘Troubled Waters’

• What Hath Dog Wrought?

  Women priests are crashing Pope Francis’s party...

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Cat Stevens’ Return to Music Scene Epitomizes the ‘Both-And’ Response

• Karen Telleen-Lawton: Whale Feces Yield Big Clues for Marine Biologists