Argentine Invasion — From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance, and brutal violence.
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WNYC’s Radiolab
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Big Picture Science
Seth’s Storm Shelter — Expect the unexpected when we go digging in Seth’s storm shelter – who knows what we’ll find! In this cramped never-never land, tucked between piles of dehydrated food packets and old civil defense helmets, we stumble (but don’t step) upon marauding ants … a mission to Pluto…. “evidence” of a spaceship crash … the Apollo astronaut who shot the “Earth Rise” photograph … and Jonah Lehrer meditating on creativity. Tune in, find out and, help move this box of canned soup, will you?
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Science Friday Audio Podcast by NPR
E.O. Wilson, Relics of Ancient Earth — Biologist E. O. Wilson discusses what ants can teach us about humanity, and Piotr Naskrecki describes animals that can teach about life on ancient Earth.
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Caustic Soda: True Bugs
Forensic entomologiest Gavin Pitts joins the hosts to talk about the hemiptera order of insects, more commonly known as ‘true bugs.’ Assassin bugs, chagas disease, bat bugs and water bugs that take down reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals are all on topic! Plus: The Lesser of Two Evils – would you rather spend a few years in an Uzbekistan bug pit or trying to farm out a living under the Khmer Rouge?
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Ants: ‘A Global Safari With A Cast Of Trillions’ : NPR
Entomologist Mark Moffett loves ants. He’s devoted his career to studying the tiny insects: how they move, what they eat, when they attack their prey. Moffett’s book, Adventures Among Ants, details his explorations around the world, tracking many a species through jungle forests and remote mountain passes.
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/22/138576199/ants-a-global-safari-with-a-cast-of-trillions
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Caustic Soda: CSI
Author Don Debrandt gives his expert testimony on Crime Scene Investigation techniques such as body farms, anthropometry, dactyloscopy, entomology, and the ever-exciting forensic accounting division “Questionable Documents”.
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KQED Forum - Biodiversity and Our Future (w/ E.O. Wilson)
Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson joins us to discuss his new book, "The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies." Wilson is faculty emeritus in the department of entomology at Harvard University and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction.
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R905110900?itemMD5=ae221a42440d262171d77ea407e7ca58
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Chasing Bugs
Ant colonies, insects and society. Prelude to Radiolab Season 5.
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