What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
Ants often act like inefficient goofballs. They got lost, accidentally drop their good and walk in circles trying to find it but eventually give up and go home, half of the ants in a nest just sit there 24/7 and do absolutely nothing.
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Nicole Bedera
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
A lot of people in positions of power got their promotions because they were behaving badly.
In sexual harassment cases, institutions use promotions as a way to retain the perpetrator and separate them from their primary victim.
A lot of people in positions of power got their promotions because they were behaving badly.
In sexual harassment cases, institutions use promotions as a way to retain the perpetrator and separate them from their primary victim.
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Naturally blind people can recognize metaphorical properties through touch meaning that they can detect the emotional state of things depending on how their lines are drawn e.g radiating lines going outward from a thumb = pain #artsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temnothorax_rugatulus
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27834-lazy-ants-sit-around-doing-nothing-while-their-nest-mates-work/
It's possible that they are reservists or food storage or something, but that hasn't been observed, I gather from this.
Also, we don't want your old books. The book drop isn't a trash bin.
Sir, I think they know what they're doing.
Though libraries being Temples of Knowledge seems a pretty universal view, even if some people want to desecrate this foreign temple.
I showed a picture of it to my undergrad advisor, an ant researcher. She shrugged and said "who knows why they do anything?"
Daintree National Park, QLD, Feb 1992.
We worked hard trying to suss out why a recent ant infestation had tracked out a very long circuitous route away and back to the water faucet that seemed to be their goal, and it's gratifying to know they're just doofuses
Thereby suggesting that there’s a multiverse society for me somewhere.🤣