Month: July 2007

  • Ants that walk on each other to get over holes

    Came across an AFP article today (ok, a month or so ago, but apparently I didn\’t hit the Publish button after writing this post) about army ants using their bodies to cover holes, so other ants can walk across on the backs of the first ants. This isn\’t a bunch of ants being sacrificed to…

  • Traveler’s Phrase Book T-shirt

    Check out this Traveler’s Phrase Book T-shirt. Basically, it’s a cotton t-shirt (comes in black, red or grey) with common symbols surrounding a question mark, so if you don’t know the language where you are traveling, you can point at items on your t-shirt to get your question across. Symbols include things like a telephone,…