The Taming of the Shrew: Comedy. By William Shakespeare. Directed by James Dunn.Through Sept. 25. Marin Shakespeare Company, Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, Dominican University, San Rafael. Two ...

By turns jolly and tedious, the First Folio Shakespeare Festival’s Wild West version of “The Taming of the Shrew” has the guts, at least, to go all the way with its yeeeee-ha production concept.

All productions of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" capitalize on the play's comedy, emphasizing the spicy arguments between Petruchio and Katherine, the strong-headed woman he tries to woo ...

Hero shrews have the most extreme spine in nature—and we don’t know why. The tiny African mammals have an interlocking and highly flexible spine, new x-rays reveal—but they only deepen the ...

Instead shrews use a form of echolocation, like what bats use, to detect and distinguish objects in the wild. To do this, shrews send out a series of ultrasonic “clicky” sounds and then listen ...

But studies with wild shrews consume a great deal of time and resources. Because of their strong territorial behaviour, the animals must be kept in large individual enclosures throughout the ...

At first glance, hero shrews don’t appear to live up to their name. But these fuzzy, molelike animals are the Clark Kents of the shrew world, with superpowers hidden beneath their humble ...

But studies with wild shrews consume a great deal of time and resources. Because of their strong territorial behaviour, the animals must be kept in large individual enclosures throughout the ...

They also conducted lab experiments comparing wild tree shrews and wild mice. What they found was that tree shrews actually seem to like chili peppers (mice, however, do not).