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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Do dolphins drown in water?
I have been meaning to write about the sleeping habits of dolphins and frigatebirds since my last post on the sleeping habits of mallard ducks. The original plan was to talk…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 6 years ago
The art of staying half-awake: unihemispheric sleep keeps ducks (and humans) safe
Imagine being able to fall asleep with half of your brain while the other half still functions. Wouldn’t that be interesting! Several animals seem to be capable of doing this…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 6 years ago
The dreams of an ant, or Why everybody needs to sleep well
I have not posted anything for a whole week, mostly because I have had to meet some deadlines at work. Apart from a pause from all social media and writing, deadlines have one…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 6 years ago
Agriculture in the ant colonies: a story of evolution, mutualism, and antibiotics
I have been writing about bats for a while and I had also stopped reading the book on ants for a week. I picked it up again this week and started reading the Economics of…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 6 years ago
On the bats dying around us
In my last post on bats , I talked about how these animals can spread dangerous diseases among humans. This post is also about diseases, but the victims in this story are the…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 6 years ago
Bats, diseases, and the Ebola epidemic
After discussing in length about how wonderful bats are for our agriculture and for our forests, in my last post , I hinted at the fact that they also carry diseases that are…
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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Appreciating Bats Part 2: Insect-eating bats save our crops
In my last post on bats , I talked about how these animals are useful pollinators in our agricultural fields as well as in the wild. In this post, I am going to talk about…
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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Appreciating Bats Part 1: Cross pollination and tequila plants
Fair warning: This is not a post about ants. I have been reading quite a few articles about bats recently, mostly because it is the last week of October, and is thus the Bat…
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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 6 years ago
Con artists among the ants: deceptive beetles and convergent evolution
Getting the Greek straight This post is about an intriguing phenomenon called myrmecophily , which, if you go into the Greek roots of the word, means “ant-love.” Now that…
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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 7 years ago
Not so busy ants and the Pareto principle
This weekend, I went through the chapter called Ants at work: maids, nannies, laborers, soldiers in the book by Jae Choe that I have mentioned in previous posts. Here…
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zycr22 (60)in #steemstem • 7 years ago
Ant eyes, ultraviolet vision, and death spirals
The question for this post is this: How do ants see things? “With their eyes, of course,” would be an obvious answer to that question. But do ants have eyes? And if they…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
Ants and the sun: knowing where to go
Let us begin by saying that the world is a big scary place and it is difficult to know where to go next. Still, let us assume for now that you have the knowledge of where…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
Ant sounds (and dances), robotic bees, and a few words about the Encarta Encyclopedia
First, the waggle dance of bees In my last post on ant communication , I talked about how ants rely on the sense of touch and on chemical cues for much of their…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
How to talk to ants: touches and smells
In my last post about ants , I mentioned the book by Jae Choe that I have started reading and how that book describes the economics, culture, and politics of ant society…
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zycr22 (60)in #science • 7 years ago
Antsy thoughts: the curious world of ants
Yes, the word antsy does come from the word ant . The dictionaries will tell you that it means restless , and that it comes from the expression have ants in one's…
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zycr22 (60)in #writingfeather • 7 years ago
Poem -- A tired lover explains his darkness and his light
I saw a dead squirrel on my way to work today. Its open eyes reminded me of the emptiness within. The world was suddenly a fragile dream where death walked with me and it…
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zycr22 (60)in #fiction • 7 years ago
Short Story -- The Picture on the Wall
Old Alinani Akira lived alone in his mansion in the mountains on a little glowing planet in the cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2065 and thought about the meaning of…
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zycr22 (60)in #marveloustales • 7 years ago
Marvelous Tales #16 - The Dancing Partner
How can we know the dancer from the dance? --William Butler Yeats If you have any interest in dances, you must surely have heard about Madam Nina who used to be a ballerina…
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zycr22 (60)in #life • 7 years ago
On noticing things
And we all are too busy (or too happy) to notice things. That is a Chekhov thought again. Do you notice whether it is summer or winter? When you do not, is it because…
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zycr22 (60)in #inspiration • 7 years ago
On everyday struggles
"Any idiot can face a crisis," says Anton Chekhov, "It's day to day living that wears you out." Not having a crisis to deal with right now, and not being particularly worn…
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