If you are looking to keep away mosquitoes, moths, ticks, and fleas, lavender is going to be your best friend this summer. Sage Photo by Friderike on Unsplash Sage Great for keeping away fleas, sage also acts as a great herb to cook with. ...
Atlas larvae are notably defensive, known to bite anything that touches them, and will fight among each other to death if food is scarce. With alife span of 12 months, the species is found mostly in Indonesia. Eacles imperialis imperialis: Imperial moth C. Freshour // Shutterstock Eacles im...
Maybe because they are an invisible minority, agnostics and atheists aren’t normally the targets of violence in the States. But they are sometimes discriminated against in hiring, usually can’t get elected to public office (if their non-religion is known), and they are generally the least...
Homes around New York State are being invaded by ants this summer. It starts with a couple then all of a sudden it's a parade of bugs! Where are these creatures coming from and why are they suddenly coming into our homes? Ants are one of those insects that we tend to peacefully coexi...
*The Associated Press has a dire message:more House Democrats than Republicans are retiring next year, and you know what that means. Achaotic yearfor the House is coming to a close with more Democrats than Republicans deciding to leave the chamber, a disparity that could have major ramification...
Male moths are often seen perched alertly like this, using their ginormous antennae to sniff out female pheromones. One must admit that their headgear is impressive. Females are rather odd. They don’t fly but instead continue to rest on tree trunks near their cocoons. Once mated, they make...
Under communism, for example, it became a crime punishable by death to be a member of the “bourgeoisie,” an “enemy of the people,” a “counterrevolutionary,” or a “deviationist.” Even those who were just skeptical or indifferent to the goals of the regime were labeled saboteurs ...
an AI arms race, human rights scholars and campaigners such as Christof Heyns, the former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, fear that the use of LAWS will put autonomous robotic systemsin charge of life and death decisions, with limited or no human control...
“She’ll always be with you.” “You’ll know she’s there.” “She’ll never really leave.” These are the very kind and infuriating things people have said to me over and over again since my mom died in 2012. I needed to believe that this would be true. That as she was dying...