Posted in fun, tagged Australia, music, nick cave on May 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is another Aussie band that has made it into my regular rotation. Nick Cave was recently interviewed by Terry Gross, where we learn that his parentage includes a librarian and an English teacher. This may explain the sophistication of his lyrics. In any case, I like [...]
Posted in Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged Australia, missy higgins, music on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jo-anne has made a project of reorienting me towards a more Australian temperament. Her tactics are subtle but persistent. If I send her off to the video store, for instance, she comes home with some Aussie movie or another.
The most insidious of her methods includes buying CDs of Australian bands and playing them [...]
Posted in Current Events, Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged Comedy, minchin, palestine, peace on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Insects, Photography, fun, tagged aphids, thrips on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in Ants, Insects, beetles, fun, tagged entomology, google, google trends, internet on March 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
via Google Trends. Blue is ants, red is beetles:
Ants win, even in the face of the beetles’ 20-fold species advantage.
That seasonal pattern is striking, no?
Posted in Science, fun, tagged Biology, cambrian, Evolution, paleontology, phylogeny on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The famous Cambrian Explosion- a rapid diversification of animal groups about 550 million years ago- assumes a rather diminished significance when mapped to the full Tree of Life.
update: yes, I made the diagram myself, by modifying this.
Posted in Blogging, fun, tagged arthropoda on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
This may come as a shock to my regular readers, but I agree with Afarensis that Arthropoda is clearly the best animal phylum.
Posted in Navel-Gazing, fun, tagged Comedy, Linguistics on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fry & Laurie on the inanity of academic discourse:
Posted in Ants, Insects, Photography, fun, tagged St. Patrick's Day on March 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
O’Pogonomyrmex - A little known and rarely-seen Irish harvester ant
Posted in Ants, Science, fun, tagged michelangelo on March 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Myrmecologist and artist Andrea Lucky sent me this picture, depicting her controversial view that Adam Ant was really a Myrmecia.
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