Brendan Buhler

Brendan Buhler is a recovering arachnophobe and co-author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes (2015). He lives in Petaluma and is also a full-time amateur biologist studying the eating habits of toddlers. 
western forest scorpion

There Are So Many Scorpions

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And the Bay Area’s most common species is smaller than your pinkie, has a sting milder than a honeybee’s, is so shy it only hunts on moonless nights and even then is most often seen running away

ocean

What Lurks Beneath

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A small research team sets out in the search for a potential ocean killer. But in this unusual year, nature is not cooperating with her interrogators.