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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Author: Benjamin Blanchard
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Also, contribute to our ongoing GoFundMe campaign to bring classic ant tunes to life, and support music therapy! Departmental: The End of My Ant Jerry (1936)…
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For our readers on Instagram, The Daily Ant now has its very own account: Antstagram. We uploaded a few pictures from the vault, but keep a look out for fresh ant content!
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the thirty-seventh contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Ross Cameron. Ants in Time The A-Theory (short for ‘Ant Theory’) says that there is a special moment in time: NOW. Harry the ant has just found…
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In a recent episode of the (wonderfully named) Science for the People podcast, University of Illinois – Chicago PhD student Anika Hazra interviewed myrmecologists Stephen Pratt and Simon Garnier. You may remember Hazra, also a myrmecologist, from her great antforgraphic on ant colony optimization! Now check out her engaging and informative interview of Pratt and Garnier, on…
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The Daily Ant recently launched “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our new Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Also, contribute to our ongoing GoFundMe campaign to bring classic ant tunes to life! I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down (2015)…
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The Daily Ant is thrilled to report that we have launched a historic GoFundMe campaign: “AntSongs: A Daily Ant Experience“. Bring such remarkable tunes as Tom Waits’ “Army Ants”, Frank Sinatra’s “High Hopes”, and Calle 13’s “El Hormiguero” to life! The Daily Ant will partner with Jordan Blanchard, a singer-songwriter from Michigan, to produce interpretive covers of these…
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the thirty-sixth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Eric Schwitzgebel from one of his publications. The Antarean Antheads On the surface of a planet around Antares lives a species of animals who look like woolly mammoths…
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Portlandia is a pretty good show. But it always had a fatal flaw: no ants. Then everything changed. Earlier this year, Episode 8 of Season 7 aired. It’s title? “Ants”. There are a number of excellent ant sequences in the episode that are not featured in this clip, but for a taste of “Ants”, watch…
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Freelance CG artist Eric Keller reached out to The Daily Ant, and brought to our attention an absolutely fantastic animated video he created two years ago. Do check this 8.5-minute animation out – it’s truly worth every second!
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The Daily Ant has launched “Formicid Form“, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our new Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, will provide a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto (1943) By Czesław Miłosz, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. Bees build around red liver, Ants…
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been two months since our last Style Saturdays installment. It’s also hard to believe that we have such a special contribution prepared for you today. Our newest Daily Ant Fashion Correspondant, Rose Langston, presents… AntEye, the hottest new trend this fall! The products used in this video are from the vertebrate…
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy. This is the thirty-fifth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Megan Wallace. Antological Disagreement1 Certain reflective ants spend their lives asking deep, meaningful questions such as: Do ants have free will? Do ants have souls? Does ‘good’…
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