This was passed on to me by my friend Christian. The Loom: The Wisdom of Parasites by Carl Zimmer.
A wasp that takes over a cockroach, steers it by its antennae into its burrow, and… more. Insane.
Archives for February 2006
Mind-boggling Wasp “Exoparasite”
February 3, 2006 – 1:31 pm
One Red Paperclip
It took me a few minutes to figure out what this was all about (I was given no context). Lucky for you, I have the day off and my errands done, so I will give you context before shoving you off to some random site.
The idea: A guy has taken one red paperclip [...]
February 3, 2006 – 12:56 pm
Hosting
I have to say, after upgrading Wordpress (the software behind this site) from 1.5.2 to 2.0.1 with 3 mouse clicks today, Dreamhost (my web hosting company) continues to show me someone can get it right.
I have had zero noticeable outages since switching to them 2 months ago. Their “Control Panel” suite of tools for [...]
February 3, 2006 – 12:40 pm
Keurig B40 Coffee and Tea Maker Review
I drink roughly 12oz of coffee once a day in the morning. Ever sick of spending $1.70 on coffee at Panera Bread and ever sick of washing a Krups pot, metal filter, and the plastic filter holder every single morning for my whopping serving, I recently purchased a Keurig Elite B40 coffee/tea maker.
Here’s the [...]
February 2, 2006 – 3:15 pm
