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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: Culture
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If you have never heard of the “Look Around You” British science TV show, you have something else to be thankful for this holiday season:
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When we decided to reemerge this week after two long, silent years, it turns out that we chose an especially auspicious season. Evidence of our fortune first presented itself via this tweet from the most influential cinematic account on Twitter: Is it a coincidence that this tweet was tweeted on Monday, the very day we…
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There is a moment in the life of every media outlet dedicated to providing premier ant content for general consumption when it becomes inescapably clear that silence is no longer an option. Formicid friends, readers, and inquilines, we at The Daily Ant have arrived at such a moment. We have been silent for two full…
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Most of our formicid-loving Jewish readers will know that we are amidst the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). Tonight will be the sixth night of the seven-day holiday. The intermediate days between the first and last days of Sukkot (as well as Passover) are called Chol HaMoed. This is important, because it turns…
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Søren Kierkegaard was indeed sore sometimes! Mincing no words in his journal, Kierkegaard reached for an ant metaphor to critique what he perceived as the mediocrity of contemporary Christendom: “Consider first Peter the apostle. He is an apostle and therefore measures a good two feet taller than what we call the mediocre… listen, you battalions of…
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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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It is only natural that our favorite social insects made it into the U.S. television show Community. Thanks to our Tube Correspondant Katerina Pollard – always on the ant T.V. beat – we know that in this case, what is natural is also real. Enjoy this short clip, captured by Correspondant Pollard, from Season 2,…
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Blessed readers, we are pleased to announce two items of interest to you, the antlightened crowd! First, after too long of a publishing hiatus brought on by an unfortunate combination of distraction and malaise, it is our intention to resume the regular production of premier ant content for general consumption within the next week or so.…
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We surely need not remind our readers that human leftists and ants go hand in tarsus. You can imagine our surprise, then, when Fraternal Correspondant Joshua Blanchard alerted us to a shocking, anti-ant video documenting a recent conversation between alleged leftists Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Before getting to the video, remember that labor unions…
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This piece is a guest contribution by Natalia Piland. Joy, Loss, Ants I’ve been grieving a lot lately. Life seems to be a series of losses, things not quite turning out how you wanted. That can be transformative. But sometimes, like when someone you’ve just met shares their hopes for the future with you only to…
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