Spence, Lucy
If you live in the South, Southeast and Southwest, fire ants are likely to be a problem. Northern residents needn't worry; fire ants are unable to survive freezing temperatures, so they don't invade Northern regions. Fire ants are very protective of their territories; they tend to attack ...
Why are fire ants a keystone species? Why are bees are so vulnerable to environmental stressors? Why is the Chinese mitten crab an invasive species? Why did reptiles survive the Permian extinction? Why are heavy metals toxic? Why do cats claw before settling down?
People are used to seeing romantic love presented as a force cosmically bound to one’s destiny, as it is on the reality show “The Bachelor.” It’s an idea that is at the same time laughable and uncannily relatable for anyone who has been in love and felt their pairing compellingly ...
There are three main pillars that ensure the functioning of the modern mechanism known as the merchant system. 1.Fear 2.Ignorance 3.Hope Fear If you don’t follow the rules, you’re excluded from the society. You become a part that simply has no place in the mechanism. Your onl...
bit high as I set goals based on my past success as a small biz educator in the offline world. I’ve since talked to a few of the graduates of the Alpha class who say they’re now experiencing growing pains and need to figure out how to handle all the work. A good problem to ...
Bottom–up processes appear to be a large part of the explanation, but there are some problems Top–down and bottom–up; the story so far A sideways look – fire and other disturbance events Population biology and the sideways perspective So why is the world green? Acknowledgements Disclosure ...
A large part of the problem is that cattle fever ticks also have another host:Nilgai antelope, a species native to India that was imported to North America in the 1930s as an exotic target for game hunters. These antelope, like the ticks themselves, and the pathogen they ca...
It has been a kind of giant circle of needs. But as… Read more The problem with the economy: you aren’t needed any more Who cares about Chrome. IE6 Has 25% Market Share At my company, Kloudshare, a big part of what we are developing involves pushing boundaries of what browsers...
What amazed me are two things: how lax the faculty are in monitoring cheating, and how clever the students are at cheating. (One site estimates that95% of them get away with it.) Here are four ways that students do it: 1.) When it was time for Sam Beyda, then a freshman at Colum...