This wouldn’t be so bad if the ants just paid rent and bought their own food…
I saw an ant on my nightstand and thought about Leanne’s comments, so I further inspected. Found about four working their way into my closet, so I evacuated it and discovered a fifth front. I killed a scout in the...
Category Archives: Environment
Twenty-six hours after I realized my internet and cable were down, Charter has restored it. Last Saturday it flickered on and off for about five hours, so when it was down yesterday I figured it would come on by the time I returned from my errands (a Texas Driver’s License and lots of plastic containers...
Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan (jellyfish) with a life cycle in which it reverts back to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the first case in which a metazoan (animal) is capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage (Piraino et...
I’ve been reading Bob Roberts’ Glocalization along with some other books, like Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Freakonomics, and Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. First my mind was on nation-building, then it transitioned into sustainable development. I remember an...
