Professor Joseph R. Coelho (Biology Program, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois) has written about more than just “Noninsect Arthropods in Popular Music“. He has compiled information about insects depicted in the packaging of that music. Investigator Jim Cowdery alerts us to Coelho’s study: “Insects in Rock and Roll Cover Art,” Joseph R. Coelho, American Entomologist, vol. 50, no. […]
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Dr. Martens’ Extermination Machine
Dr. Andy Martens, of the psychology dept. at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and colleagues from the University of Arizona, US, have devised an Extermination Machine [pictured at right]. The machine was designed to experimentally investigate a bug-killing paradigm – in order to provide clues towards answering the the question ‘Might killing something (in […]
How certain stock traders resemble certain insects
“Day traders tend to coordinate their behaviour in the same way that cicadas synchronise their chirping,” reports the Physics arXiv blog. The discovery is explained in detail in the study: “Synchronicity, Instant Messaging And Performance Among Financial Traders,” Serguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty and Brian Uzzi. arxiv.org/abs/1110.0381. The authors are atNorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. They say: “racing to […]
Bugged by buggy bug IDs
Alex Wild writes in his Compound Eye blog: Why are media insects misidentified? That’s not a bee…. How does a fly end up advertising a book whose target audience, not to mention the mortified authors, will instantly recognize as a mistake? Publishers, photo editors, and stock agencies—those entities that purchase from image creators—trust photographers to correctly […]