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Myrmecology Dies in Darkness
Category: Music
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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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It should come as a surprise to no one – vertebrate or invertebrate – that a song (mostly) about an ant won a 1959 Oscar for Best Original Song. That song, “High Hopes“, is a charming ditty, as you can see and hear in the embedded video, below. The most antspirational lyrics are as follows:…
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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 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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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This fourth installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! Style Saturdays took a brief hiatus last week for the March for Science (it made me think, maybe I should dedicate a future entry to protest-wear; you really…
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Beat Correspondant Dr. Max Winston recently shared with us an interesting aural experience with a noble name: “Fire Ant”. Enjoy!
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The Daily Ant has been a little promotional this week, but why stop now? There is another noble antdeavor recently launched by Miles Maxcer: the Ant Network. Vote in support of his video here. Together, we must combat the pervasive vertebrate-first agenda!
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