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Heckling is both a primitive art form and a kind of low-grade amateur guerrilla warfare, a nonviolent intellectual terrorism. Done properly, it produces roughly the effect achieved by releasing a bagful of garter snakes and rats in a cathedral: a spiritual shambles, the sermon in ruins, the bishop standing speechless at the altar...
...they are lyrical reminders of the virtues of juneberries, and if not specifically of juneberries, then of the virtue of noticing the smaller prosaic things and events which often go unnoticed. Whether reading about "poisonous and nonpoisonous varieties of the genus Amanita" mushrooms, or the skin in sheddings of garter snakes, one is thrilled. The sobering comes shortly after, when one remembers the criminally foolish president and his similarly foolish and greedy followers who strive to make the water, as and ground unlivable for mushrooms, garter snakes and people
Crews said the substance he found in garter snakes is transported like a hormone but eventually reaches the exterior and functions as a pheromone...
...Garter snakes communicate primarily by way of pheromones, Crews said. The newly discovered pheromone conveys information about the female snake's reproductive potential...
...added that although this phenomenon may be unique to garter snakes, he hopes his discovery will spur similar research with other species. "For now, I will pursue my work with garter snakes," he said...