Some things that piqued my interest without triggering a full post:
The readability of this blog is high school level, which is good. That's pretty much how I pitch it:
There's a new species of killer whale in the Antarctic. [HT: Jason]
Toads will mate across species if things get tough. This has also been documented in other species such as ducks.
More like this
tags: endangered species day, conservation
tags: endangered species, endangered birds,
The response comes back suspiciously quickly on the reading level of the blog. I also have a high school reading level on mine. When I compare my writing to yours, I would put mine at the middle-school level.
My blog comes up as "Genius", which I'm assuming means that no bugger can read it or be bothered to try.
The "new killer whale" has been floating about for a while, I think. A number of cetacean "species" (including the killer whale, but also the common dolphin and the minke whale) fall into that taxonomic limbo where it's a widely-known secret that there's probably a number of species currently lumped under the one name, but there's a bit of reluctance for anyone to leap in and try and sort them out, both because of the amount of work involved with a shortage of specimens, and because there's a great list of synonymised names that would have to be examined to see if any of them correspond to any re-identified separate species.
Lazy bugger.
Yeah, I'm a 'genius', too.
Seriously, when a fella like me rates as a 'genius' and a serious, erudite (and often esoteric) real-life scholar like John Wilkins is judged to be at a 'high school reading level' there's something wrong with me.