The Daily Ant
Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Author: Benjamin Blanchard
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If you think ants drinking water isn’t mind-blowing (or even interesting), that’s because you haven’t seen this gif yet: https://twitter.com/ziyatong/status/920823549820129280 Many thanks to reader Katie Henderson for sending this stunning footage to us!
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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-fourth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Kenny Easwaran. Mutualistic Anteractions Individual ants do amazing things. They lift huge objects, bring food to the nest, bite gigantic creatures, sacrifice themselves for others, and lay…
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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-third contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Rivka Weinberg. In late Spetember, Dr. Rivka Weinberg sat down with The Daily Ant to discuss the point of life, reproductive ethics, and ants! Given that we are posting…
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Early Saturday evening, an anonymous source revealed to The Daily Ant that the cartoonist John Atkinson has found himself antspired – or has he? The source implored The Daily Ant to discuss this image in Wrong Hands, and we extend the command to you, our dear readers.
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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-second contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Kieran Setiya. Ant-I-Intellectualism We often get ants in our kitchen: relentless black ones scurrying from place to place with an air of purposive intelligence. Betraying no hint…
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The Daily Ant is excited to report that Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and prominent leftist critic Glenn Greenwald visited the Field Museum’s AntLab midday on Tuesday, participating in a special tour arranged by our very own editor-in-chief, Benjamin Blanchard. Although in Chi-Town for a speaking and book signing event at the University of Chicago, Greenwald, who is…
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The Daily Ant is thrilled to announce that we will be conducting a video interview with none other than Dr. Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College) for our popular Philosophy Phridays series! Weinberg (no relation to Justin Weinberg) has agreed to take questions from our many readers, even including “unfair questions”. So, please let us know any…
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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-first contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Anne Pollok. Antropology, or, what we can learn from ants and a fiction called Diotima I do not know much about ants. But, come to think of…
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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 thirtieth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Kevin Timpe. The Fecundity of Ants and the Goodness of Existing “Kevin! Get in here!” comes my wife’s voice from the kitchen, brimming with an emotion somewhere…
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We start this post with an unusual sentence: A recent headline in New York Daily News caught our attention. What was the headline? “Fire ants could be used to help Kim Kardashian” It turns out that a component of the chemicals released in a fire ant sting also may alleviate some symptoms of an auto-immune disease…
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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 twenty-ninth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Samantha Noll. We apologize for the delay this week, but it was worth the wait! Ant Philosophies of Farming Like humans, one of the reasons why ants…
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This week’s Philosophy Phriday contribution will be posted a couple days late – we apologize for any inconveniants!
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