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DENTAL FORMULAS
Tavishi Sorry for the lack of posts, I've been locked into the grind. (The brainrot. Tripi tropi tripa tropa or something I don't know....
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BLOG NAME CHANGE
Good evening, all. We hope this post finds you well. We regret to inform you that because of litigatory threats, Kradigan, unfortunately,...
Apr 12 min read

INTERNATIONAL SEAL DAY
Happy International Day of the Seal! This post commemorates Ukiaq, Harsolo, Kiwi, Schaaf, Chappy, and Malama!
Mar 223 min read


SNAKE REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY
Tavishi Yesterday I was feeding my friend Samyak's Mexican black king snake when I realized I don't really know much about snake...
Mar 193 min read


SEALDON PINNIPEDERSON
Tavishi One of my favorite book series is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive . Great series, absolutely obsessed. In my grief and...
Mar 82 min read
HERITABLE VETERINARY ERYTHROCYTE DISORDERS
Tavishi I'm not entirely sure why I still add my name to my blog posts; if you've been reading Kradigan for a while, you know that...
Mar 24 min read

CRANIAL NERVES
Tavishi coolest brother who DID consent to this <3 This is my brother, Yash. More importantly, he's one of Kradigan's biggest fans. Jokes...
Feb 234 min read

EPILEPSY: A DISEASE FOR THE LOVESICK
Tavishi On February 14th in the middle ages, children with epilepsy were given keys. Valentine's Day didn't start off as a holiday of...
Feb 133 min read


AR EN AY (RNA!)
Tavishi RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a single-stranded nucleic acid composed of nucleotides. Each RNA nucleotide contains a sugar...
Feb 22 min read


VIRAL CLASSES
Tavishi When I first started liking biology, I enjoyed it in the realm of understanding things. Not knowing the answer to something made...
Jan 284 min read

MES-SEAL-IER OBJECTS
Tavishi I don't usually write astronomy posts. My specialty is biology, and I don't know too much about astronomy. But I do know a little...
Jan 243 min read

PLANT HORMONES A LA SHAKESPEARE
Tavishi It is once again that time of year in which I am reminded that sonnets are a thing by one of my teachers, and yet again, I take...
Jan 211 min read

LEPTOSPIROSIS IN PINNIPEDS
Tavishi This is Vincent, a harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ) pup admitted to the Marine Mammal Center in March 2023 for leptospirosis and...
Jan 174 min read

STAR-RING THE STARLING: MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SWARMING BEHAVIOR
Tavishi Rome is known for many things: the Colosseum, Catholics, Capitoline Hill, Caesar, and pizza. The most culturally significant of...
Jan 133 min read

TOO MUCH TOXIN-G ABOUT FOOD "TOXINS"
Tavishi In the past few years, the internet has experienced a surge in "crunchy" food influencers, who label any difficult to pronounce...
Jan 83 min read

PINNIPED PHARMACEUTICALS
Tavishi A crucial part of medicine is treatment. A great deal of my Kradigan posts deal with illness, but rarely delve further into the...
Dec 27, 20243 min read

THE C IN CRITTERS
Tavishi Most good things start with the letter C: capers, cheese, cyan, cornichons, crepes, chutney, and other edible things. On the...
Dec 23, 20242 min read

ACE INHIBITORS
Tavishi Contrary to what Big Playing Cards may claim, ACE inhibitors are NOT an anti-ace card group who are certainly NOT distributing...
Dec 12, 20243 min read

HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL GENETICS
Tavishi During the 19th century, the Hawaiian monk seal was hunted to near extinction, just as most pinnipeds in the time. As a whole,...
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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