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Two stories about bugs.

1) Researches posit that honey bees have individual personalities. Or, more accurately, some are thrill-seekers (more properly "novelty-seekers", it seems) and some are not.

2) Fleeing the rising waters of a flood, thousands of wolf spiders have blanketed a farm in Wagga Wagga.

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Combining some obnoxious rich people, the Lucille and Mitt tumblr.

Sleepy Lions

Stealing the heart of a saint? That's a horror movie plot waiting to happen.

The Value-Added Teacher Model sucks. I need to read more Mathbabe, as she has lots of interesting things to say. Quants for the rest of us is good. (And it seems I need to check out Duck ( Read more... )

Stairway to Gilligan's Island

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In an alternate universe, The Beatles performed Stairway to Heaven

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We are the stories we tell, or so I am often inclined to think.

In honor of Women's History Month in the USA, Aphra Behn collects stories of women's history that don't get told nearly often enough.

Neal Gabler and Bill Moyers discuss how the stories we tell about politicians in the US makes us disappointed in the reality. "Movies are clean; ( Read more... )

A nice short story about memory in Nature.

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The Oatmeal grammar tag is full of fun things, even if many are usage and vocabulary, but not grammar. (I know, I'm losing this jargon fight. I do think we will need to brainstorm up a new word to mean "grammar" since we're losing the one we have.)

More in the we humans may actually be wired to be nice file.

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I would love to read these.

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Therefore, I caught up by seeing them Re-enacted by kids. This is in two parts.

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