We thought we were winning the war on bugs, but it seems that perhaps it is the ants who have won:
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to [...]
Prof. Robert Sapolsky talks about the biological roots of religion through schizophrenia (hearing the voice of a god), OCD (ritual), and temporal lobe epilepsy (mystical experiences):
There’s a condensed version of some of these thoughts in Sapolsky’s essay “Belief and Biology.”
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It’s a baby pygmy marmoset, which is the smallest monkey in the world. Adorable!
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A reader sent in the following question:
Are there any economic implications from natural selection? If so, what are they?
I haven’t thought much about this. I assume Michael Shermer talked about this in The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives, but I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.
So what do you think? Are [...]
Watch till the end:
I’m glad these things are small, otherwise we might be in trouble.
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The Australian lyrebird can imitate many bird calls, but even more impressive (to me, at least) is he can imitate the sound of chainsaws, car alarms, gun shots, and camera shutters.
I saw this clip maybe a year ago, and the wife has been begging me to find it again. Here it is:
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