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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: Art & Media
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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