Health, Science, Environment

Science loves a frog. And why not? They're easily disassembled, they produce large numbers of transparent embryos, and they walk  goofy.

But our dissectable friends aren’t doing so well. Scientists have also noted that amphibian extinction rates appear to be anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of times higher than usual.

A lot of things make San Francisco a unique city -- and one is the sheer number of dogs.  There are more dogs than there are children.  Something like 120,000 canines inhabit this metropolis, and thousands of those dogs are dropped off at local shelters each year.  Lost, abandoned, orphaned or mistreated by former owners.

The pound, the shelter, animal control... Whatever you call it, pop culture America has decided it’s a horrible place.