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Zoomorphicweights were widespread in the ancient world. Weights in the shape of frogs and toads were rare in the Near East, but they do occur in Egypt. This frog weight is dated to the second millennium B.C. on the basis of the four line Akkadian inscription under its throat: "a frog [weighing] 10 minas, a legitimate weight of the god Shamash, belonging to Iddin-Nergal, son of Arkat-ili-damqa." The mina was the Mesopotamian unit of measure, weighing about 500 grams (18 ounces). The weight system was based on the talent or the average load that could be carried by a man or animal (about 30 kilograms). According to the Sumerian sexagesimal system, the talent was divided into 60 minas, and a mina was divided into 60 shekels.

The Data Frog SF 2000 is an impossibly cheap handheld game system sold on AliExpress, which you probably already heard about elsewhere. It's also not very good, as you probably already guessed from the price. Here's the thing, though... for its price, it might be just good enough.

Let me provide some context here. I've been involved in gaming for quite a while, at least forty years by my estimation, and I have seen some handhelds. Handhelds with smeary black and white displays, handhelds you can't see at all without standing directly in front of Green Lantern's lantern, handhelds that burn through batteries in a couple of hours, handhelds with miserably small software libraries... and every single one of them cost way more than the SF 2000 does.

Frankly, handheld gaming was a little crap until the Game Boy Advance SP shed some much needed (front)light on the subject. If the SF 2000 is what passes for crap twenty years later, it's clear that handheld technology has made colossal leaps and bounds in that span of time. You're getting a full color screen at 240p resolution, an analog thumbstick, a rechargeable battery, and thousands of games spread across multiple systems. Do you know what you could get for $19.99 back in the 1990s? Allow me to show you!

Where was I? The commercial says it all... the Pro 200 is a handheld that plays eighty variations of legally-distinct-from-Tetris and other insultingly simple diversions, presented with the blandest, most all-purpose graphics you've ever seen in a video game. Watch with bemusement as a cluster of blocks that vaguely resembles a race car weaves through blocky traffic! Gasp in dismay when you realize every game uses the same set of blocks, making even the Odyssey2 and its army of white robots look versatile by comparison! Reach for the phone to call your bank and ask them to reverse the charges on this purchase!

The SF 2000 is better than that. It's better than the Game Gear clone AtGames sold in dollar stores, it's better than many of the other handhelds AliExpress sells at cutthroat prices, and it's certainly better than Tiger's LCD handhelds, which recently made a puzzling comeback. The SF 2000 plays roughly half of its thousands of games pretty well, with the Neo-Geo and CPS2 being standouts. It's possible to add even more games, but it's going to be hard to find anything missing from the system's immense library. The control is adequate, with a lackluster D-pad but an analog stick that works wonders in fighting games. The NES, Genesis, and two flavors of Game Boy run perfectly well, although you'll want to run this script to smooth out the kinks in the key mapping. Nobody should ever have to jump with a shoulder button... that's just inhuman.

What else? Hackers have already made in-roads to making the SF 2000 a better experience, and its mass adoption coupled with newly discovered information about its processor suggests that a custom firmware (with support for more systems and better emulation for the handful available) could be possible. Even if that doesn't happen, you're still getting decent emulation of NES, Genesis, and yes, even Capcom arcade games, and you're getting all that for twenty dollars. It's not hard to find better handhelds than the SF 2000, but good luck finding one cheaper.

Development begins at the time an egg is fertilized and progresses by chemical communication between cells and cell layers. This communication is programmed through gene expression. Malformations represent primary errors in development, errors in chemical communication or translation of genetic information. Deformations arise later in development and usually result from the influence of mechanical factors (such as amputation) that alter shape or anatomy of a structure that has developed normally. The occurrence and the type of malformations are influenced by the type of error or insult as well as the timing of the error (the developmental stage at which the error occurred). The appearance of the malformation can therefore provide clues that suggest when the error may have occurred. If the malformation is an incomplete organ, such as an incomplete limb, the factor or insult acted during a susceptible period prior to organ completion. Although defining the anatomy of the malformed metamorphosed frog can give us an idea of the approximate window during which the developmental insult was initiated, and might even suggest the type of insult that may have occurred, the morphology of the malformation does not define the cause. To define causes and mechanisms of frog malformations we need to use well designed investigations that are different from traditional tests used in acute toxicity or disease pathogenicity studies. When investigating malformations in metamorphosed frogs, we are looking at the affect of exposure to an agent that occurred early in tadpole development. Therefore investigations to determine causes of malformations need to look at agents that are present in the tadpoles or their environments at these early developmental times. Laboratory experiments need to expose embryos and tadpoles to suspect agents at appropriate developmental stages and look at acute results, such as toxicity and death, as well as following the developmental process to completion to determine the impact of the agent on the developing tadpole and the fully developed frog. This means holding animals past metamorphic climax to assure that the anatomy and physiology of the adult have developed normally.

As we look at field collections of abnormal frogs, we need to keep in mind that these collections reflect survivors only. We are looking at malformations that were not fatal to tadpoles. We cannot assume that because we do not collect other malformations, they did not exist. More work needs to be done on the developing tadpole, in the field and in the laboratory, to better elucidate the range, frequency, character and causes of anuran malformations.

Specifically, the Calling Frog Survey aims to understand the breeding distributions of local frog species, monitor long-term trends in frog breeding populations, and to improve our understanding of frog response to habitat restoration and land management.

In the 1960s, the cricket frog was the most common amphibian in Illinois. Today, it has declined from most of the northern counties in Illinois, with a number of possible drivers of decline that may explain its loss. In 2000, Chicago Wilderness initiated a calling frog survey as part of its amphibian biodiversity recovery plan. In 2014, the Calling Frog Survey became part of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences' roster of community science initiatives.

The overarching goal of the Calling Frog Survey is to establish calling frog survey routes throughout the Chicago region, resulting in amphibian abundance and distribution data. In particular, the Survey aims to continue monitoring sites that have thus far been monitored regularly, so that we can obtain long-term data on regional amphibian trends.

Data from the Calling Frog Survey are shared with land managers and ecologists and are used to guide regional conservation planning and restoration management, to ensure that no other amphibian suffers the fate of the cricket frog.

Several partner agencies have used Calling Frog Survey data collected by volunteer monitors as baseline data and follow-up data for habitat restoration grants. The data collected by our program volunteers help provide metrics of restoration success.

Become a volunteer and help monitor local frogs and toads. No prior experience is necessary outside of attending one of our training workshops. Training workshops are held online in early February, and completion of one training workshop is required for participation.

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For more than four decades, hearing in frogs has been an important source of information for those interested in auditory neuroscience, neuroethology and the evolution of hearing. Individual features of the frog auditory system can be found represented in one or many of the other vertebrate classes, but collectively the frog inner ear represents a cornucopia of evolutionary experiments in acoustic signal processing. The mechano-sensitive hair cell, as the focal point of transduction, figures critically in the encoding of acoustic information in the afferent auditory nerve. In this review, we provide a short description of how auditory signals are encoded by the specialized anatomy and physiology of the frog inner ear and examine the role of hair cell physiology and its influence on the encoding of sound in the frog auditory nerve. We hope to demonstrate that acoustic signal processing in frogs may offer insights into the evolution and biology of hearing not only in amphibians but also in reptiles, birds and mammals, including man.

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