6 month ago
deusx : Ananova - Pensioner destroys flats to kill ants - "Marcin Bartosz, 74, used gallons of insecticide but when it seemed to have no effect on the insects he threw a burning towel after it."
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7 month ago
deusx : Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas - Times Online - "It sounds like the plot of a farfetched science fiction movie. Unfortunately for the residents of Texas, it is very much a reality: billions of tiny reddish-brown ants have arrived onshore from a cargo ship and are hell-bent on eating anything elect
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28 month ago
deusx : Dr. Dobb's | Ant Colony Algorithms | August 3, 2006 - "Among other complex problems, Ant Colony optimizers can be used to simulate routing problems when network topologies change over time."
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30 month ago
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos - all with embedded YouTube links; I just killed a full hour on this
joshua : Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos - i heard they used to show these on television
plasticbag : Pitchfork presents 100 Awesome Music Videos - All complete with embedded YouTube links so you can actually watch the damn things. Copyright infringement by the megaton, but it's fascinating, beautiful and completely absorbing. I'll be playing with this a lot this evening. Mmm. Classy.
Philippe Janvier : 100 Awesome Music Videos - Oldies but Goodies ! [via] #
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41 month ago
plasticbag : War of the fire ants - the extraordinary reproductive habits where "Males pit their genes against females by chucking DNA out of eggs." - "The result is that both the males and females have their own, independent gene pools, leading some to speculate whether each gender ought to be technically classified as its own species. "
jkottke : Male anf female fire ants maintain their own independent gene pools - "The sperm of the male ant appears to be able to destroy the female DNA within a fertilized egg, giving birth to a male that is a clone of its father. Meanwhile the female queens make clones of themselves to carry on the royal female line."
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