Spence, Lucy
Fire ants (Solenopsis) are an ideal model system for studying speciation and coexistence. Based on preliminary mitochondrial work, they appear to be a relatively recent radiation, and possibly a species swarm (ancient hybridization among young species). We are using a variety of phylogenetic, phylog...
The reality show has 20 contestants competing for $250,000. Players are trying to determine who the traitors among them are to eliminate while the traitors try to claim the prize for themselves by eliminating players. No one knows who is who. It's hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming. To...
I wasn’t quite sure HOW it should change, I just knew there needed to be more…commitment. Commitment to learn AND to implement. To follow through. To take action (and to keep taking action over and over and over again). Initially, the only way I could see how to do that was to ...
Both campaigns have been really pushing their supporters to vote early. There are some advantages to voting early. Obviously, if you are not going to be near your polling place on election day, you can vote early or absentee. This year, more than ever, people don't want to just forego ...
the Australian capital. Consequently, life has been very busy with fewer opportunities to photograph bugs but I can’t be stopped entirely. My new job looks like it will take me all over Australia so, with luck I will have a lot of different wildlife to show. So far here are some favou...
“Did those chickens escape,” asked the tourists. “No, they didn’t. We set them free on purpose. If all chickens are caged, they don’t produce eggs. But when some are free, they all do it,” replied the owner. (I don’t know who is the original author of this story...
And perhaps most damning: The Israel Defense Forces did not even have a plan to respond to a large-scale Hamas attack on Israeli soil, according to current and former soldiers and officers. If such a plan existed on a shelf somewhere, the soldiers said, no one had trained on it and no...
This idea of keeping some things off limits to tourists and climbers is not new to the Anangu people of Australia. When people ascend Uluru, the world’s largest monolith in central Australia, they offend the Anangu people. For them Uluru is not just so much stone but a palpable life forc...
I don't think we even really did anything to it from that initial session. He just mixed it really well and we came to the studio. I recorded my vocals and an actual guitar, but for the most part it stayed the same. That was before I had Splice, so on YouTube ...