The Daily Ant
Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: Culture
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
The Daily Ant is thrilled to announce that we will be conducting a video interview with none other than Dr. Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College) for our popular Philosophy Phridays series! Weinberg (no relation to Justin Weinberg) has agreed to take questions from our many readers, even including “unfair questions”. So, please let us know any…
-
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…
-
Poet John Ashbery died late Sunday, at the age of 90. In honor of the polarizing poet, we present his 1979 poem, “Late Echo”: Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In…
-
The Daily Ant is thrilled to report that the American Museum of Natural History is poised to truly live up to its name. Although announced on January 11, 2017, we were previously unaware of this historic development: AMNH will soon house an insectarium! Marvel at the gorgeous artistic rendering of the plans: The renovations are…
-
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!
-
Yesterday, in addition to breaking a news story about ants and the solar eclipse, The Daily Ant was also informed by Thinker Correspondant Jordan MacKenzie that the cartoon sitcom Rick and Morty recently featured a new character, Million Ants. He apparently developed a relationship with another character in the show, Supernova – as the fan…
-
As vertebrates swarm to various destinations throughout the continental United States in order to observe a total eclipse of the sun, experts predict that tens of billions of ants are bracing themselves to stop and remain motionless during the imminent periods of total darkness. This forecast, supported by the scientific literature, should send shockwaves around…
-
I’m on the road this week, so today’s Style Saturday will be brief but (formicid) fabulous! Here at The Daily Ant we received a request to look at more myrmecologically-themed menswear. The truth is, while ants may have relatively strict gender roles, creativity, rule-breaking, and self-expression are part and parcel of true human style. To…
The Daily Ant 