The Daily Ant
Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: Business
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Fans of K-Pop will recognize this group of young men as the world-famous South Korean band “BTS”: Fans of ants will wonder what BTS has to do with ants. It turns out that the boy band’s music label is Big Hit Entertainment, which is going public in a much-anticipated IPO next month. As explained in…
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We really shouldn’t be surprised. Is it even possible that a company with a vertebrate mascot – namely, a gecko – could resist eventually succumbing to myrmecophobia? After all, some geckos eat ants! Whether or not we could have avoided such a fate, witness (if you can stomach it) this Geico advertisement, released early last…
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There is perhaps no tale as ancient as the tale of a human hell-bent on keeping ants out of their home. It’s no surprise that we chose to launch this outlet, over two and a half years ago, with a treatise in defense of house ants. Surely no one, by now, is shocked at the…
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If you must choose car advertising as a career path, please follow the tire tracks of General Motors. The unexpectedly formicid-forward car manufacturer recently produced an excellent advertisement for their 2018 GMC Terrain Denali SUV with voiceover by Will Arnett: “The Strength of an Ant“. Enjoy!
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It’s hard to believe it, but it’s true. What started out one year ago from yesterday as a podunk formicid-friendly online media project with an inaugural post on loving your house ants has grown into a podunk formicid-friendly online media project with 196 published articles. Whether you’re joining us now for the first time, or have…
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A guest post by Joanie King. I am antsy over the new ant emoji (iOS 11.2). Yes, I am restless and agitated. This is no ant. I am all for cartoons: the previous ant emoji (iOS 11.1) was a cartoon, but it did not suffer from such a horrible morphological representation. It was simpler.
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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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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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Well, the most recent mega Powerball jackpot of $759 million has been claimed. But did you know? A single supercolony of Argentine ants in southern Europe numbers in the billions, so if this supercolony is the winner, each ant receives less than a dollar. Too bad!
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Very few things have nothing to do with ants, and Anthony Scaramucci (or, as he is known in the adult cartoon we call reality, “The Mooch”) is no exception. Many readers will have only just recently learned their Moochian Myrmecology from intrepid journalist and gleeful polemicist Matt Taibbi. Who is Matt Taibbi? Well, let me…
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Brooklyn’s most ant-friendly craft brewer, Dailey Crafton, sat down with The Daily Ant to discuss beer, ants, and… well basically just beer and ants. Enjoy!
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Here at The Daily Ant, we generally support the little gal. Yet we can’t help but appreciate a particular financial services group: Ant Financial Services Group hails from China, and according to the Wall Street Journal, it is (unsurprisingly) a “juggernaut of online banking, fund management and other financial services.” Sounds like they chose the right name!
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