A naturalist acquaintance tells me about the fungus that infects, then hijacks ant brains. “It does what?!” I ask. She tells me that the fungus, in the manner of a crane operator driving a crane, drives its ant host down from the tree canopy to the forest floor where it forces the ant to attach itself to […]
I’m doing whatever and glance up to see that my cat is staring at me with a wide-eyed, unblinking stare that makes me wonder … Did I just grow a second head or something? Then, abruptly, she loses interest. A sudden movement in the near distance or a highly localized grooming emergency and I’m forgotten. […]
At Tealoha this morning, I showed independent journalist Richard Walton CNN.com’s landing page. The main headline there: “They sold their daughters into sex slavery.” Richard scanned the page, laughed and told me that CNN’s viewership is at an all-time low. It follows therefore, although he left the obvious unspoken, that a little trou dropping is […]
