I'm not sure I have any comment for this, other than to say how pleased I am that puns work just as well in math.
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Oct 20, 2011
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Nature's greatest con-artists: the parasitic beetles that trick ants into barfing into their mouths
Myrmecophiles are parasitic beetles that use chemical cues to fool ants into bringing them into their nests and regurgitating food into their mouths, diverting the colony's bounty of semi-digested ant-chow from the queen and her babies to their own hungry guts. Ant Lab shows us how a Xenodusa beetle can con Camponotus ants into a […]
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Save The Elephants: How DNA revealed the 3 cartels behind most of Africa’s ivory smuggling
Science writer Ed Yong has an amazing whodunit at The Atlantic on how genetic science can help stop elephant poaching.
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Myers-Briggs too complicated? Scientists identify four personality clusters
People are so boring! A new study shows there are only four clusters of personality. Why bother talking to folks? Via Ars Technica: People love taking online quizzes; just ask Buzzfeed and Facebook. A new study has sifted through some of the largest online data sets of personality quizzes and identified four distinct “types” therein. […]
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Start making iOS 12 apps with this developer bootcamp
iOS 12 is finally here, which means now is the best time for aspiring developers to throw their hats into the app development game. While app development can be tricky for some, you can take an intuitive, beginner-friendly approach to understanding app creation and Apple’s latest iOS platform with the iOS 12 & Xcode 10 Bootcamp, […]
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Gear up for your holiday vacation with these travel hacks
It might still be September, but the holiday season will be here before you know it, which means now is the time to think about where you want to vacation to—and what to do once you get there. To this end, we’ve scoured the Web and tracked down a number of travel hacking ebooks, gadgets, […]
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This portable microscope camera magnifies objects up to 1,000x
The human eye is a beautiful, incredible thing, but it’s far from perfect, especially when it comes to examining objects up close. Capable of magnifying objects up to 1,000 times, this portable microscope camera lets you see wonders hidden to your regular vision, and it’s on sale today for $38.99. Don’t let its compact size fool […]
