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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This fifth installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! There’s been a bit of insantsitive fashion in the news this week — not more Kushner couture-controversy but a bit of an instagram blow-up. This week we’ll talk…
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The Daily Ant wishes all workers a very happy May Day! As a special treat, enjoy this inspired union advertisement, shared with us by Labor Correspondant Trish Kahle:
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Are there ants on the moon? Comic Correspondant Matt Hernandez shared with us an interesting take on this ancient question, by Poorly Drawn Lines:
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This fourth installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! Style Saturdays took a brief hiatus last week for the March for Science (it made me think, maybe I should dedicate a future entry to protest-wear; you really…
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Beat Correspondant Dr. Max Winston recently shared with us an interesting aural experience with a noble name: “Fire Ant”. Enjoy!
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This second installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! If you’ve ever found yourself tasked with responsibilities beyond your skill set because your wealth, your family, or your social standing have catapulted you to a position…
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Early Wednesday morning, BuzzFeed staff member Kelly Oakes published “21 Tweets That Will Make Scientists Laugh, Cry, Or Both”. We are happy to report that our relentless investigative journalism is featured in #10. Check it out. UPDATE: #12 is also formicid-friendly!
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Lichens are not ants. But, fortunately for lichens, lichens are nearly as cool as ants. Imagine what would happen if ants and lichens joined forces! If you don’t have a good imagination, then you’re in luck. Lichen Correspondant Joel Mercado-Díaz recently drew our attention to a couple beautiful ant-lichen photographs. With permission from the original…
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The Daily Ant is excited to announce a new series: Style Saturdays! The post below is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! As you’ve probably already noticed, whenever you wear your favorite formicid-themed apparel, there’s a fine line between achieving that simultaneously chic…
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Many research programs in biology neglect natural history. While investigating sophisticated hypotheses and theories, even very basic information about study organisms remains unknown. This is why a recent paper by Dr. Walter Tschinkel and Daniel Domínguez is so exciting. These researchers, as reported in PLOS ONE last week, photographed and identified most of the seeds…
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Recently, Tube Correspondant Katerina Theodossiou, who is currently undercover working in the United Kingdom, shared with The Daily Ant a series of observations of the T.V. show Santa Clarita Diet. The images she provided are reproduced below:
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Justin Brierley is host of the “Unbelievable?” programme on the British Premier Christian Radio station. The programme covers matters of faith, often including discussions on the interaction between faith and science. Now, you may be wondering, what does this have to do with ants? Recently, Fraternal Correspondant and well-known pseudoscientific philosopher Joshua Blanchard reached out to Brierley on…
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