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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
"Every Third Bite" is one of the films in the Media Matters Film Festival. You can watch the entire film (it's less than 9 minutes long). Watch urban beekeepers in Manhattan and Chicago talk about keeping bees, colony collapse disorder, and why bees are important to our food supply.
The film ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Steve Kutcher dips insects feet in paint and encourages them to leave their footprints on canvas.
I'd seen vague mentions of Pasadena, California's Armory Arts Center's Bugology exhibit, which it turns out Kutcher participated in.
He doesn't appear to work with ants, but I haven't delved that far into his ...
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Might as well mention Antz so we can move along.
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Almost ten years before he made Pan's Labyrinth, filmmaker [tag]Guillermo del Toro[/tag] made Mimic. It's about mutated human-hybrid cockroach monsters, Mira Sorvino's pout, and a lot of actors who should have known better emoting in subway tunnels, but the stunning title sequence does feature a few ants.
Mimic is an otherwise ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
I believe I've mentioned how fascinating I found [tag]E.O. Wilson[/tag] and [tag]Bert Hoelldobler[/tag]'s Pulitzer Prize winning book [tag]The Ants[/tag]. (Um, suprise?)
For those without the patience for a weighty tome about ants, there's always Ants: Nature's Secret Power, which I've realized is available on Google Video. You ...
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Our tivo (aka: Overlord) records Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! every time [tag]Sci-Fi[/tag] dumps the 1998 made-for-tv stinker into their latenight line up. It's amusing enough, but only really stands out because someone thought it a good plan to stuff poor [tag]Mitch Pileggi[/tag] (Skinner from the X-Files) into super, super-tight ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
I really should launch this site with an erudite post on a Serious Subject like science or art. But no, my brain has melted like a jello salad at a 4th of July picnic in Akron, Ohio and lucidity is no longer an option. Instead, I prefer to extol the ...
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