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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, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! Poem in Haiku Poetry (1968) By J.W. Hackett The ants on this cloth are even carrying off their own casualties.
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A peaceful picture for those of you still awake approaching midnight on this calm Saturday night.
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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 fifty-sixth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Audrey Yap. Speech Acts and Unspeakable Ants At the annual ACP/CPA (Association Canadienne de Philosophie/Canadian Philosophical Association) conference, I encountered an ant-related speech act.
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The time is upon us. Ant-Man and The Wasp debuts early in theaters all around the United States today. This day. Thursday, July 5th, 2018. Prime yourself by watching both trailers for the film, and then do your civic duty. Get out to the box office and put your money where your mandibles are! Let us…
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The great Swiss myrmecologist Auguste Forel (1848 – 1931) once observed that “the greatest enemies of ants are other ants, just as the greatest enemies of men are other men.” In general, this maxim appears true – with exceptions. Once such exception was reported in 1977 in the journal Nature, by myrmecologists James H. Brown…
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The Netflix show Queer Eye, a reboot of the popular Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, has been met with generally favorable reviews by critics and viewers alike. Thanks to Tube Correspondant Katerina Theodossiou, we now know the reason why, and it’s found in Season 1, Episode 5 (“Camp Rules“). In this episode, the Fab Five give Bobby…
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Cemeteries are known locations of an abundance of human bones. But cemeteries are not the only site where human bones have been deposited, in both modern and ancient times, and investigations of such bones, wherever they are found, can often tell us a lot about traumatic injuries, environmental changes, cultural histories, and a number of…
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The Daily Ant maintains “Formicid Form”, a Sunday ant poetry series. When possible, our Verse Correspondant, Natalia Piland, provides a short commentary at the end of each poem. Enjoy! El Hormiguero (2010) Song by Calle 13, English translation here The ants have arrived here, We are conquering enemy territories, Invisible, silent, and simultaneous, The entire invasion is…
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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 fifty-fifth contribution in the series, submitted by Dr. Danny Weltman. Personal Identity and Personal Idantity In the movie Antz, the worker ant Z-4195 regards hundreds of ants all dully dancing in the same shuffling motion…
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There is an African ant species of tiny workers that lives in big trees. In these big trees, the little ants scurry around long, narrow cavities in the bark, tending to the even littler insects they harvest as livestock. Outside of these big trees, the little ants can barely stand. The difficulty that the gals…
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What do you do if you’re a huge singer-songwriter and also named Paul Simon? You join forces with mega-myrmecologist E.O. Wilson to promote biodiversity and conservation. Enjoy this (shaky) video, where Simon talks about Wilson’s global biodiversity initiative, the Half-Earth Project, while on tour:
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Committed readers will remember fondly our coverage of Anty Gin, the Beer Ants Gel Habitat, Funky Fresh ant beer brewer Dailey Crafton, and an antspired cocktail from Singapore. Well, we have another exciting libation to share with you! Our editor-in-chief is currently in southern China for an investigative journalism project on Polyrhachis spiny ants. But he also…
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