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Category: Culture
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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. This week’s poem was sent to us by philosopher Larisa Svirsky. Enjoy! The Carpenter Ant (2013) By Terrance Hayes It was when or because she became two kinds…
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After an unjustifiably long hiatus (5 weeks!), The Daily Ant is back. And time is on our mind. Ant wrinkles in time. As consumers of mammalian media surely know already, Ant Wrinkle in Time hit theaters yesterday. Based on the Madeleine L’Engle novel of the same name, Ant Wrinkle in Time tells the story of an ant that…
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There once was a T.V. show called Friends. On this show, as documented by Tube Correspondant Katerina Theodossiou, there once was coverage of ants. Enjoy!
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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! The Ants (1793-1864) By John Clare What wonder strikes the curious, while he views The black ant’s city, by a rotten tree, Or woodland bank! In ignorance…
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All of the dedicated staff at The Daily Ant wish our devoted readers the most merry Christmas! May this season bring each and every one of you good tidings of ants.
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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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The Daily Ant hosts an intermittent ant film series, Theatre Thursdays. This is the fourth installment, by our Film Correspondant Derek Langston. Enjoy! Six-legged Celluloid Presents… A review of Them!: “We like big ants and we cannot lie, you vertebrates can’t deny!” To my faithful readers and fellow cinematic antficianados, I wanted to both reward you, and thank you…
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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 hosts an intermittent ant film series, Theatre Thursdays. This is the third installment. Enjoy! On Tuesday, denizens of the Music Box Theatre in Wrigleyville, Chicago were treated to something truly special: A showing of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and a post-film discussion with Dr. Shauna Price, a postdoctoral researcher in the Moreau AntLab at the Field…
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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! Be Beautiful, Noble, Like the Antique Ant (1908-1997) By Jose Garcia Villa Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant, Who bore the storms as he* bore the…
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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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