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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This tenth installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! James Comey’s testimony this week has really forced my hand: here at Style Saturdays, there’s something we just can’t ignore any longer. There’s something funky about…
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Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, understands what is truly the best thing ever: https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/871486053626007552
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This sixth installment is a special Mother’s Day edition! It was contributed by Pat Myers, Empress of The Washington Post Style Invitational. Enjoy! The Amazing Nthilla The Style Invitational, The Washington Post’s weekly humor/wordplay contest, draws witty, funny entrants from all over the English-speaking world, including the mother of The Daily…
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As our regular readers will have noticed, we have been a little quiet lately. For this, we apologize – regular programming will resume shortly. Also, we would like to announce the establishment of a Correspondants tab, which rightly honors the many people who have helped The Daily Ant achieve national international recognition. Thank you!
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The Daily Ant hosts a weekly ant fashion series, Style Saturdays. This second installment is by our Fashion Correspondant Kathryn Pogin, who is also an Executive Producer of our popular Philosophy Phridays series. Enjoy! If you’ve ever found yourself tasked with responsibilities beyond your skill set because your wealth, your family, or your social standing have catapulted you to a position…
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Early Wednesday morning, BuzzFeed staff member Kelly Oakes published “21 Tweets That Will Make Scientists Laugh, Cry, Or Both”. We are happy to report that our relentless investigative journalism is featured in #10. Check it out. UPDATE: #12 is also formicid-friendly!
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[UPDATED with a video, below] Some researchers recently published a study in which they placed Cataglyphis desert ants on treadmills. Check out a discussion of the research here. Update: In response to a comment by Boshua J’lanchard, here is a video of the treadmill in action:
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Justin Brierley is host of the “Unbelievable?” programme on the British Premier Christian Radio station. The programme covers matters of faith, often including discussions on the interaction between faith and science. Now, you may be wondering, what does this have to do with ants? Recently, Fraternal Correspondant and well-known pseudoscientific philosopher Joshua Blanchard reached out to Brierley on…
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Six days ago, we featured a story about ant butts. Five days ago, we featured a quote from a book by Ed Yong. Today, we feature an article by Ed Yong about ant butts: check it out!
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Today, the top news stories is the highly unusual – many would say wholly unjustified – silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren by Senator Mitch McConnell. Senator McConnell tried to explain his action, saying “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” This defense has ignited an amazing response on Twitter. Well, this morning,…
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After a brief, unexpected hiatus due to various factors (none too serious), The Daily Ant is back! We apologize to our colony of readers for the recent lack of premier ant content. Be on the lookout for our next post!
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Not much time today to write a whole post, but this article in the New York Times is probably a nice discussion about Dr. Daniel Kronauer and his ant work.
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